Usability Resources

Compiled by Darlene Fichter

Web Sites

• Usability.gov
  http://www.usability.gov
  
  
• Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, May 2002
  Home Page Design Guidelines
  http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20020512.html
  
  
• Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, May 30, 1999
  The Top Ten New Mistakes of Web Design
  http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html
  
  
• Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, May 2, 1999
  Top Ten Mistakes Revisited Three Years Later
  http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990502.html
  
  
• Keith Instone's Site Usable Web
  http://www.usableweb.com
  
  
• Jared Spool's User Interface Engineering Site
  http://www.uie.com
  
  
• Software Usability Research Laboratory Newsletter
  http://www.usabilitynews.org
  
  
• Jakob Neilsen's Site
  http://www.useit.com
  

New Usability Links and Resources

All links on Usability

Booklist

• Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense...by Stephen Krug
  
  
• Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed by Jakob Neilsen and Marie Tahir
  
  
• Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do by B.J. Fogg
  
  
• Web Site Usability Handbook by Mark Pearrow
  
  
• The Inmates are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper
  
  
• Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Nielsen
  
  
• Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests
  

My Presentations / Articles

• Actionable Information: Tools & Techniques to Help Design Effective Intranets
  - Intranets and KMWorld - Santa Clara CA - October 14-16, 2003
  
  

Related Resources

• Writing for the Web
• Usable Forms

Other Resources

• Finding Blogs, Blog Posts, RSS Feeds and RSS Entries
• Library Weblogs

Last Updated: January 15, 2006