RM Resources
One excellent resource for research articles for this course is the ACM's digital library. Student membership for a year costs $42.
ACM Digital Library
http://www.acm.org/dl
Fitt's Law
http://www.tele-actor.net/fitts/fitts_background.html
http://www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html
Seniors Usability Checklist
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/checklist.pdf
usability resources
User
Testing Techniques: A Reader-Friendliness Checklist
Guidelines for informal, but very effective, checklist-based user testing.
Usability.gov
This site provides a basic overview of and general information about usability.
Be Succinct! (Writing
for the Web)
From usability guru Jakob Nielsen, this article outlines the three main
guidelines for writing for the Web.
How Users Read on
the Web
Jakob Nielsen’s 1997 study of user behavior.
- usability
- www.useit.com
- www.usableweb.com
- www.usability.gov
- University of Maryland's Usability Resource List
www.otal.umd.edu/guse/testing.html - Usability Professionals' Organization
www.upassoc.org - a list of the categories you can use to rate the severity of usability problems:
Categories of usability errors
information about informed consent procedures:
informed consent - flowcharting
- A project at Ryerson Polytechnic University adapting flowcharting symbols to multimedia design
www.rcc.ryerson.ca/rta/flowchart/symbols.html - storyboarding
- An introduction to storyboarding for movie production
www.exposure.co.uk/eejit/storybd/ - site design
- Yale C/AIM Web Style Manual
info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html - Lynda Weinman's site about web site design
www.lynda.com - Design Interact
www.designinteract.com - Web Page Design for Designers
www.wpdfd.com - online course on gestalt theory and design
daphne.palomar.edu/design/gestalt.html@anchor1123302 - accessibility
- Bobby
www.cast.org/bobby - W3C accessibility guidelines
www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT - cardsorting
- www.iawiki.net/CardSorting
- www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/analyzing_card_sort_results_with_a_spreadsheet_template.php
- www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/cardbased_classification_evaluation.php
- freelisting(an alternative to cardsorting)
- www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/beyond_cardsorting_freelisting_methods_to_explore_user_categorizations.php
The Counter keeps current stats on what screen resolutions, operating systems, and browsers people are using to explore the web. Look to the right for navigation-- poor site design, in my opinion.
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2003/November/res.php
Bobby is a utility for testing website accessiblity to disabled users.
http://www.cast.org/bobby
The W3C accessiblity guidelines are a little dry, but specific.
http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/
Jakob Neilsen's site includes excellent advice and is a good example itself of how to write for the web.
http://www.useit.com
Usable Web is a little out-of-date but still contains one of the best collections of links on usability.
http://www.usableweb.com
Usability Professionals' Organization
http://www.upassoc.org
University of Maryland's Usability Resource List contains links to papers describing usability methodologies and tools.
http://www.otal.umd.edu/guse/testing.html
Usability Testing of World Wide Web Sites is a paper on website usability research from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/ore/htm_papers/st960150.htm