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