Usability links

Last update : 7th October, 2008

We have selected here below several websites providing resources for implementing usability methods during web site or user interface design.

The sites are listed in alphabetic order. It is not the best choice from the usability point of view! ;) However according to the various services provided by this sites, a consistent grouping is difficult since most of them find their place in several categories at the same time...

If your site also provides resources related to Usability Engineering, we will be glad to add it in the list.

 

ACM SIGCHI - Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

When one seeks for information about the man-machine interfaces, the best starting point is, in my opinion, the site of the ACM Special Interest Group one Computer-Human Interaction which provides numerous links to sites related to interface design and development.
http://www.acm.org/sigchi

Adaptive Path - User experience design & consulting

Adaptive Path, consulting agency specialized in web usability, provides a newsletter dealing with web design and usability engineering. On the site, several case studies show the benefits of usability.
http://www.adaptivepath.com

AskTog - Practical real-world design

The site of Bruce Tognazzini, who has been "user interface evangelist" during 14 years at Apple, includes many articles about usability engineering and provides advices for the design of the man-machine interfaces.
http://www.asktog.com

Baddesigns.com - Bad Human Factors Designs

The site of Mr. J Darnell describes several usability issues comming from every day life.
http://www.baddesigns.com

Cortexte - Formation et ressources en rédaction Web

On this site, Cortexte Communications company which provides training and consulting services for web writing, proposes resources to publication managers and web designers in order to ease training of web writing techniques.
http://www.cortexte.com

Design for Lucy - Web usability and interaction design

Frédéric Fuchs site provides guidelines for efficient web sites design and several examples of ergonomically designed web pages.
http://www.designforlucy.com

Ergologique - News, articles and guidelines about usability and user-experience

Ergologique's purpose is to help designers and developpers to improve their design by knowing some of the usability main rules. The site provides some advices for a user-centered and usable design as well as news about usability and general interest for designers.
http://www.ergologique.com

Ergonomie du web

Alain Robillard-Bastien exposes on this site the basic concepts of web site design and Ergonomics in general. A user-oriented method for developing a website is detailed.
http://www.ergoweb.ca

HCI Index - Resources on Human-Computer-Interaction on the Internet

Hans de Graaff has collected on his site a considerable number of links to the multiple aspects of human-computer interaction.
http://degraaff.org/hci

Human Factors International - We make software usable

The site Human Factors International provides, among other, a summary, illustrated by examples, of the main ergonomics rules to be followed when designing a man-machine interface.
http://www.humanfactors.com

Ilatoofo - Apprenez par l'erreur ... des autres !

Ilatoofo's purpose is to help web designers to improve their site by showing mistakes of professionnal websites. A site to visit when you are looking to something that has absolutely not to be done.
http://www.ilatoofo.com

Industrial Usability Reporting

This site created by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) aims at increasing the visibility of software usability by developing a common usability reporting format for sharing usability data with consumer organizations.
http://zing.ncsl.nist.gov/iusr

Interaction - Le portail des IHM et de l'ergonomie logicielle

Interaction is a rich portal on man-machine interfaces and software ergonomics.
http://www.multimania.com/interaction

Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines

Sun proposes a guide of style for the design of Java man-machine interfaces.
http://java.sun.com/products/jlf

Microsoft Usability Research

On Microsoft Usability Laboratory web site, you will find main articles and style guides published by Microsoft researchers. It is also possible to be registered as guinea-pig for tests ;)
http://www.microsoft.com/usability

Recipe for has Successful Website

Nathan Shedroff explains us, with "a recipe", how to make a good site.
http://www.nathan.com/thoughts/recipe

Société d'Ergonomie en Langue Française

The site of the Francophone Ergonomics Society (SELF) presents the association and provides useful information on Ergonomics and the work of ergonomicist.
http://www.ergonomie-self.org

STC Usability Special Interest Group

The STC Usability SIG site provides numerous resources about usability engineering.
http://www.stcsig.org/usability

Temesis - La qualité des services en ligne

Quality Assurance is closely linked to Usability. Temesis is one of the few sites dedicated to web quality. It provides numerous articles on this subject.
http://www.temesis.com

Usability.gov - Your resource for designing usable, useful and accessible Web sites and user interfaces

This site, designed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), provides an impressive set of resources on usability, accessibility, and related topics. In particular, it provides a collection of web guidelines. A notable feature of this collection is to associate with each guideline two ratings: its 'Relative Importance' to the success of a website, and the 'Strength of Evidence' supporting the guideline. These criteria will help design choices and unavoidable compromises during site development.
http://usability.gov

Usability First - Your online guide to usability resources

The site of the web agency Diamond Bullet introduces usability engineering and present resources about it.
http://www.usabilityfirst.com

Usable Web - Links about web usability

This site, maintained by Keith Instone, provides numerous links about usability engineering, particularly about web design.
http://www.usableweb.com

Useit.com - Usable information technology

The site of Jakob Nielsen is probably the most well known in the field of the usability engineering. He regularly publishes a letter providing his thoughts and advices about web sites and associated technologies.
http://www.useit.com

User Interface Engineering - Getting development teams the information they need to make design decisions

The site User Interface Engineering contains a series of articles about man-machine interfaces usability.
http://www.uie.com

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

The consortium W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has published on this site a set of guidelines in order to make the web pages readable and accessible to disabled people.
http://www.w3.org/tr/wai-webcontent