Français Usability links
Last update : 18th May, 2004
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
All Things Web - A collection of resources for Webspinners & authors
All Things Web is aimed at web designers to which it gives
many practical advices to create usable web sites.
http://www.pantos.org/atw
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
Axance - Web User Experience
The consulting agency Axance proposes on its site a newsletter
which regularly delivers relevant advices on the web interface and the
practice of usability testing.
http://www.axance.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
C|NET - Web Building: Authoring & Site Design
The area Web Site Design of C|NET includes a series of
articles about web site design.
http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/0-3881.html
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
CreativeGood - We're making the Web easier to use
Creative Good provides on his site several studies about
the behavior of the e-consumers.
http://www.creativegood.com
DavidManise.com - Ergonomie web
David Manise's personnal web site presents main principles
of web usability as well as related issues when creating a web site. It
provides practical advices about technical requirements (server choice,
images, HTML and so) to be taken into account in order to develop an usable
web site.
http://www.davidmanise.com/ergonomie
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
Ergolab - Ressources Ergonomie web et logiciel
On Ergolab, Amélie Boucher provides resources about
software and web usability. Articles, book reviews and links address user
centered design, usability, accessibility and information architecture.
Articles are brought together in four themes: existential questions, principles,
interface components and practices.
http://www.ergolab.net
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 on line - Sites concernant l'ergonomie des IHM
The site Ergonomie On Line collects many links about software
ergonomics and man-machine interfaces.
http://www.multimania.com/ergoline
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
Guides de style
A collection of links to style guides for web design is
proposed in this page.
http://www.webdeveloppeur.com/Ressources/guideStyles.html
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
HTML4.com
Marino Ceccotti's personnal web site is one of the few
websites which deal with usability and accessibility. It provides resources
and many practical advices about web standards, web usability and web
accessibility.
http://www.html4.com
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
IBM's Ease of Use Web Site
This part of site IBM is dedicated to software usability.
You will find there a style guide dealing with the various phases of the
development of a web site.
http://www-3.ibm.com/ibm/easy
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
Interface - Ergonomie, Graphisme, Technologie
Raphaël Yharrassarry provides on his site practical
advices on the three steps of man-machine interfaces design: ergonomics,
graphics and technology.
http://interface.free.fr
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
Step Two Designs - Beyond the idea
Step Two Designs is an agency specialized in knowledge
management consultancy. A set of didactic articles related to Knowledge
and Content Management, Intranets and Usability is available on their
site.
http://www.steptwo.com.au
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
TRUMP Project - Cost-effective User Centred Design
This site presents TRUMP project (TRial Usability Maturity
Process) which has developped a methodology for user oriented design.
At each stage of the design, you will find the related forms and documents.
http://www.usability.serco.com/trump/trump
Uiweb.com - Essays on web design interaction usability experience architecture etc.
Scott Berkun's website provides a series of essays particularly
interesting about interaction design. The site also includes the Best
of chi-web a compilation of the best summary postings of this mailing-list
dedicated to web usability.
http://www.uiweb.com
Usabilinet - Analyse et réflexion sur l'usabilité Web
Usabilinet is maintained by Louis-Guillaume Kan-Lacas,
researcher on web and online marketing at Montpellier University. The
site provides articles about web marketing and site usability.
http://www.usabilinet.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
Usability Institute - Reducing Training to Its Sensible Minimum: Zero...
Usability Institute not only provides several white papers
and articles on Usability, but also a library of generic components for
web applications. To be noted on this site, a template of usability requirements
to be included in requests for proposal.
http://www.rsiprogram.com/uinst
Usable Web - 1427 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
Vanho.com - Conseils pour améliorer l'efficacité de votre site
A collection of various articles (more than 550) related
to Internet technologies and, of course, about web usability.
http://www.vanho.com
VBC - Customized Communication, Training & Documentation
Vincent Bertin Consulting web site provides an introduction
to technical communication methods. The site introduces Mind Mapping a
visual communication method that provides all aspects of an idea at one
glance. It can be used with software or with a sheet of paper and a pen.
http://www.vbc.com
Veblog - Ressources pour réussir des projets Internet centrés sur les besoins de leurs utilisateurs
Veblog, the site of Vincent Bénard, provides
many articles and a lot of practical advices about web design and Internet
technologies in general.
http://www.veblog.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
Webmonkey - Design
Webmonkey provides recommendations about web page design
and resources for web development.
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/design
