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On the Web
- Usable Webs - Information on basic web usability principles, including hints on helping search engines find your site. Web usability assessments and content development are available.
- Web Usability Articles - Several years of usability-related articles from Digital Web Magazine.
- Improving Web Site Usability and Appeal - Guidelines compiled by MSN Usability Research to provide designers and producers with ideas to increase the usability and appeal of Web sites.
- Web Usability - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. Special issue of WWW Usability arising from a symposium entitled "The Missing Link: Hypermedia Usability Research and The Web".
- WebMetric Tools - Good usability is vital to the success of any web site. This site has downloadable sets of web evaluation tools to assist in analysis of a web page based on numerous usability guidelines. Registration is required (free).
- Usefo.com - Web design resources, Usableword newsletter, and web usability guidelines to make web sites faster, more educational, and usable.
- All Things Web: The Usable Web - Tips and techniques for building reader-friendly Web pages.
- Usable Web - Collection of links and accompanying information about human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web.
- Web Usability Findings - Compilation of surveys of web usability engineering and test results.
- Krug, Steve: Advanced Common Sense - Steve Krug, author of Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, provides consulting services including expert reviews of existing sites and new designs, usability workshops, and usability testing.
Wikipedia Articles
- Web usability - Web usability is the application of usability in those domains where web browsing can be considered as a general paradigm (or "metaphor") for constructing a GUI.
- Web developer - A web developer is a software developer or software engineer who is specifically engaged in the development of World Wide Web applications, or distributed network applications that are run over the HTTP protocol from a web server to a web browser. Many web developers are also skilled in web design, information architecture, usability engineering, and search engine optimization.
- Web mapping - Web mapping is the process of designing, implementing, generating and delivering maps on the World Wide Web. While web mapping primarily deals with technological issues, web cartography additionally studies theoretic aspects: the use of web maps, the evaluation and optimization of techniques and workflows, the usability of web maps, social aspects, and more.
- Web engineering - The World Wide Web has become a major delivery platform for a variety of complex and sophisticated enterprise applications in several domains. In addition to their inherent multifaceted functionality, these Web applications exhibit complex behavior and place some unique demands on their usability, performance, security and ability to grow and evolve.
- Usability testing - Usability testing is a means for measuring how well people can use some human-made object (such as a web page, a computer interface, a document, or a device) for its intended purpose, i.e.