Amazing set of resources found on UMN edu site for Usability/UX/HCI study:
Links to the actual categories on the site
- Benefits and ROI
- Children
- Chunking
- Consistency
- Content
- Definitions
- Efficiency
- Error Tolerance
- Fitts Law
- Flash Usability
- Forms
- Frames
- Guidelines & Principles
- Homepages
- Intuitive
- Learnability
- Line Length
- Link Color
- Link Text
- Link Rot
- Liquid/Elastic/Fluid/Fixed Design
- Memorability
- Open Source Usability
- Pop-Ups
- Redesign
- Scanning/Reading Online
- Scent
- Security
- Senior Citizens
- Scrolling
- Simplicity/Complexity
- Speed
- Splash Pages
- Subjective Satisfaction
- Teenagers
- White Space
- Writing:
- Articles & Related Links
Benefits and ROI. (Why Usability?)
- All Those Opposed: Making the case for user experience in a budget-conscious climate - Jesse James Garrett
- Calculating ROI for Usability
- Case Study: Intranets, Usability, and Value - Jeffery Veen
- Do Government Agencies and Non-Profits Get ROI From Usability? - Jakob Nielsen
- Jakob Jumps The Shark - Peter Merholz
- Does Usability Actually Sell Anything? - Bryan Eisenberg
- High-Cost Usability Sometimes Makes Sense - Jakob Nielsen
- Professional usability testing and return on investment as it applies to user interface design for web-based products and services - Charles Mauro
- Return on Investment for Usability - Jakob Nielsen
- ROI faulty as measurement of IT success - ComputerWire
- ROI Is Not a Silver Bullet: Five Actionable Steps for Valuing User Experience Design - Scott Hirsch
- ROI of Usability: A Collection of Links - Rashmi Sinha
- Selling Usability - Jeff Atwood
- Selling Usability to Your Manager - User Focus
- Seven Myths of Usability ROI: Daniel Rosenberg Presentation - Presentation report by Nerija Sinkeviciute
- Streamlining UX Increases Conversion by 20 Percent - Jared Spool
- The Cost of Frustration - Jared M. Spool
- The Bottom Line on ROI - Alan Cohen
- The Dark Side Of Usability: When Business Goals & User Goals Collide - Lance Loveday
- The Red Herring of Usability ROI - Scott Hirsch
- The Return on Investment (ROI) for Personas - Submitted by Ann Light
- The ROI of Usability - Aaron Marcus
- The Value of Usability - All things Web
- Usability & ROI: A Collection of Links - rashmi sinha
- Usability is good management - Gerry McGovern
- Usability Is Next to Profitability - Jane Black
- Usability ROI Declining, But Still Strong - Jakob Nielsen
- UX in the Boardroom: A Solid Case for Investing in UX - Kate Walser
- When ROI Isn't Enough: Making Persuasive Cases for User-Centered Design - Colleen Jones
- Why People Matter - Whitney Quesenbery
- Why Is Usability Important? - Usability.gov
- Why Usability is Important to You - John S. Britsios
Children
- Children and Accessibility: It Matters - Derek Featherstone
- Evaluating the Usability of Educational Websites for Children - Shiva Naidu
- Kids' Corner: Website Usability for Children - Jakob Nielsen
- The Effects of Line Length on Children and Adults’ Online Reading Performance - Michael Bernard, Marissa Fernandez, and Spring Hull
- Usability Testing with Children - Tim Fidgeon
- Which Fonts Do Children Prefer To Read Online? - Talissa Frank and Jan McKown
Chunking
- Bite-Sized Chunks Of Info Are Best - Susan Weinschenk New!
- Breaking Up Large Documents for the Web - Part 1 - Janice (Ginny) Redish
- Breaking Up Large Documents for the Web - Part 2 - Janice (Ginny) Redish
- Breaking Up Large Documents for the Web - Part 3 - Janice (Ginny) Redish
- Chunking Principle
- Chunking (psychology)
- Cognitive load and the rule of seven (or how many is too many) - Nick Finck
- Debunking Miller's Magic 7 - Bryan Eisenberg
- Short-Term Memory - Jakob Nielsen
- The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information - George A. Miller (1956)
- The Myth of "Seven, Plus or Minus 2" - James Kalbach
- Three Numbers That (Should) Have Nothing To Do With User Interface Design - Denny C. LeCompte
- Use Lists of 3-7 Items - Rachel McAlpine
Consistency
- Breaking Rules - Dmitry Fadeyev
- Consistency in Design is the Wrong Approach - Jared Spool
- Design Consistency - University of Minnesota
- Design for Rule, Not Exception - Gerry McGovern
- Ensure Consistency of Display, General Advice - Skills for Access
- Expectations and Usability: Consistency - Peter J. Meyers
- Every Website is NOT Different - Gerry McGovern
- Glossary: Consistency
- How To Avoid Foolish Consistency - Scott Berkun
- In the Race With Google, It's Consistency vs. 'Wow' - Saul Hansell
- Customer Experience and the 'Wow' Factor - Mark Hurst
- MIT's Homepage: Preposterous or Ingenious? - Joshua Porter
- More Alike Than We Think - Whitney Quesenbery
- Seeking Clarity on Consistency - Kath Straub
- The Wheres and Whens of Users' Expectations - Jared Spool
- The Joys of Consistent Web Practices - Mike Cherim
Content
- A Rant (Mostly) About Web Content - D. Keith Robinson
- Are You Publishing Too Much On Your Website? - Gerry McGovern
- Business Case for Deleting Content - Gerry McGovern
- Content Analysis: A Practical Approach - Colleen Jones
- Content Brief - D. Keith Robinson
- Content Comes Before Good Design - Gary Barber
- Content Development, Writing for the Web - Shirley Kaiser
- Content Is King - Paul Boag
- Content vs. Design - D. Keith Robinson
- Content-tious Strategy - Jeffrey MacIntyre
- Do You Manage a Website or a Warehouse? - Gerry McGovern
- Don't Try to Boil the Content Ocean - James Robertson
- Heart Surgery for Dummies - Gerry McGovern
- How Web Influenced US Elections - Gerry McGovern
- Intranets Are Not Information Dumps - Gerry McGovern
- Is Your Content a Waste of Time and Money? - Gerry McGovern
- Less is More for Government Websites - Gerry McGovern
- Low Value Content is Destroying Your Website - Gerry McGovern
- Measuring Value of Web Content - Gerry McGovern
- No News This Week: Only Publish What Is Useful - Gerry McGovern
- No Silver Bullet for Web Content - Gerry McGovern
- Quality, Not Quantity: Delivering Value From Web Content - Gerry McGovern
- Raising the Perceived Value of Your Website - Gerry McGovern
- Remember Your Web Content is Data - Rachel McAlpine
- Removing Poor Quality Content Increases Customer Satisfaction - Gerry McGovern
- Stop Creating ROT - Rachel McAlpine
- Take Full Responsibility For Your Web Content - Gerry McGovern
- The Content Conundrum - Christopher Detzi
- The Content Strategist as Digital Curator - Erin Scime
- The Discipline of Content Strategy - Kristina Halvorson
- The True Cost of Content - Gerry McGovern
- The Problem of Dirty Data - Gerry McGovern
- Usable Content Manifesto - D. Keith Robinson
- Web Content is a Hidden Asset - Gerry McGovern
- Web Content Management Depends on Trust - Gerry McGovern
- Web Content Management Is Not Data Management - Gerry McGovern
- Web Content Management: Top 10 Predictions for 2005 - Gerry McGovern
- Web Content Migration: Disastrous Strategy - Gerry McGovern
- Web Content Versus Print Content - Gerry McGovern
- Web Manager: You Can't Serve Everybody - Gerry McGovern
- Website Content and Usability - Trenton Moss
- Writing User Friendly Content - Matthew Kammerer
- Your Web Content is Data - Rachel McAlpine
- Your Web Content: The Elves Won't Fix It - Rachel McAlpine
Definitions
- A Definition of User Experience - Eric Reiss
- Ask Dr. Pete: What Is Usability? - Peter J. Meyers
- Accessibility and Usability
- Accessibility Is Not Enough - Jakob Nielsen
- Web Usability - Mel Pedley
- Defining User Experience - Luke Wroblewski
- Definition of Usability
- Dimensions of Usability: Defining the Conversation, Driving the Process - Whitney Quesenbery
- Introduction to Usability - Usability First
- The Differences between Usability and User Experience - RJ Owen
- The 5 E's of usability - Whitney Quesenbery
- Using the 5Es to Understand Users - Whitney Quesenbery
- Usability != User Experience - Peter Merholz
- The Difference Between Usability and User Experience - Jared Spool
- Understanding Usability - Richard Spindler
- Usability 101 By Jakob Nielsen
- Usability Basics - Usability.gov
- Usability Defined
- Usability is Design - Mike Cherim
- Usability or User Experience? What's the Difference? - Tom Stewart
- Usability Redefined: Howability, Taskability, Recommendability, Profitability - John Rhodes
- User Experience is a Quality, Not A Discipline - Peter Merholz
- Web Usability by Mel Pedley
- Web Usability: The Basics - WebCredible
- What does 'usability' mean? Looking beyond 'ease of use' - Whitney Quesenbery
- What is Usability? By Donna Maurer
- What is Usability? - John Rhodes
- What Is Usability? by Peter J. Meyers
- What is Usability? - Usability Professionals Association
Efficiency
- Learning More About User Interruptions - Celeste Lyn Paul
- Usability 101 By Jakob Nielsen
- Usability 101: Efficiency - Tristan Louis
- Usability Glossary: efficiency - Usability First
Error Tolerance
- Error Message Design Showcase - Christian Watson
- Progressive Disclosure - Jakob Nielsen
- Simplified Form Errors - Adam Kalsey
- Usability 101 By Jakob Nielsen
- Usability 101: Errors - Tristan Louis
- User-Friendly Error Messages: 7 Tips - AGConsult
- User Recalled Occurrences of Usability Errors: Implications on the User Experience - Helena Mentis and Geri Gay
Fitts Law
- A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts - Bruce (Tog) Tognazzini
- Fitts at 50: For Link Design, Size Does Matter - William Hudson
- Fitts' Law By Dave Shea
- Fitts' law By Wikipedia
- Giving You Fitts - Jensen Harris
- Mouse Sensitivity challenges Scope of Fitts' Law - Christian Lagerkvist
- Refreshing Three HCI Laws: Fitts' Law, Hick's Law, and the Power Law of Practice - Gerd Waloszek
- The Opposite of Fitts' Law - Jeff Atwood
- Touch Target Sizes - Luke Wroblewski
- Usability Glossary: Fitts' Law
- Visualizing Fitts's Law - Kevin Hale
Flash Usability (see Flash page)
Forms Usability
- 10 Tips on Writing Hero-Worthy Error Messages - Christine Brodigan
- 10 Tips To A Better Form - Chris Campbell
- 11 Expert Tips For Enhancing The User Login Process - Gary Barber
- 5 Ways To Make Sure That Users Abandon Your Forms - Eric G. Myers
- 8 Design Mistakes to Avoid with Account Sign-in - Jared M. Spool
- 8 More Design Mistakes with Account Sign-in - Jared Spool
- (Almost) Never add a Reset Button to a Form - Roger Johansson
- Better Web Forms By D. Keith Robinson
- Better Web Forms: Redesigning eBay's Registration - Garrett Dimon.
- Button Placement on Forms and Popup Windows - Meryl Evans
- Calling in the Big Guns - Will Evans
- Comment Form Design - Dmitry Fadeyev
- Check User ID Button - Jared Spool
- Checkboxes vs. Radio Buttons - Jakob Nielsen
- Closed Question Response Categories - Jessica Enders
- Colons at the End of Labels? - Ann Light
- Colons at the End of Labels - Caroline Jarrett
- Creating a Usable Contact Form - Matthew Kammerer
- Defeated By a Dialog Box - Jakob Nielsen
- Design Stories: Character Counters - Robert Hoekman
- Designing Intersection Flows - Henrik Olsen
- Developing an Online Form
- Dialog Boxes - Making Simple Things Simple... - Leisa Reichelt
- Do I Have To Answer This Question? Mandatory Versus Optional Fields - Formulate
- Does User Annoyance Matter? - Jakob Nielsen
- Don't Put Hints Inside Text Boxes in Web Forms - Caroline Jarrett
- Error Message Design Showcase - Christian Watson
- Evaluating the Usability of Search Forms Using Eyetracking: A Practical Approach - Matteo Penzo
- Eyetracking of Forms: Should We accept the Conclusions? - Caroline Jarrett
- Fewer Fields in a Contact Form Sharply Increases Conversions - Imagescape
- Forms Accesibility
- Form Follows Function and Achieving Thereof - Govert Adriaan Kolbach
- Forms: The importance of getting it right - Lift
- Forms, usability, and the W3C DOM - Peter-Paul Koch
- Forms vs. Applications - Jakob Nielsen
- Four Ideas For Better Forms - Caroline Jarrett
- Getting a Form's Structure Right: Designing Usable Online Email Applications - Jeff Parks
- How to Design Buttons to Help Improve Usability - Tom Kenny
- International Address Fields in Web Forms - Luke Wroblewski
- Landline Phone Numbers in Electronic Forms - Formulate Information Design
- Long Pages Rule, Except When They Don't - Heidi Adkisson
- How to Indicate Required or Optional Form Fields - Thomas Watson Steen
- Implementing Online Forms - James Robertson
- Inline Validation in Web Forms - Luke Wroblewski
- Initial Focus to a Text Field - Good or Bad? - Robert Nyman
- It's Not About Size, It's About Context - Radio Buttons Or Drop-Downs - Donna Maurer
- Judging Forms - Jessica Enders
- Label Alignment in Long Forms - Paul Wallas
- Label Placement in Forms - Matteo Penzo
- Long Forms: Scroll or Tab? - Caroline Jarrett
- Make Complete Button Surface Active and Enhance Usability - UXPassion
- Marking Required vs. Optional Form Fields - Erin Walsh
- Previous and Next Actions in Web Forms - Luke Wroblewski.
- Putting a Paper Form Online - Avoiding Dropouts and False Information - Applying Aesthetics - Janet M. Six
- Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo - Aza Raskin
- OK-Cancel or Cancel-OK? - Jakob Nielsen
- Phone Numbers in Electronic Forms - Formulate Information Design
- Primary and Secondary Actions in Web Forms - Luke Wroblewski
- Registration Forms - What To Do If You Can't Avoid Them - Caroline Jarrett
- Reset and Cancel Buttons - Jakob Nielsen
- Rules for Labeling Buttons - Caroline Jarrett
- Selection-Dependent Inputs - Luke Wroblewski
- Sentence or Title Case for Labels? - Caroline Jarrett
- Sensible Forms: A Form Usability Checklist - Brian Crescimanno
- Simple Tricks for More Usable Forms - Simon Willison
- Simplified Form Errors - Adam Kalsey
- Sign Up Forms Must Die - Luke Wroblewski
- Smart Defaults in Registration Forms - Luke Wroblewski
- Stop Using PDF and MS-Word Forms - Gary Barber New!
- The $300 Million Button - Jared M. Spool
- The 4 Layers of a Form - Jessica Enders
- The Cost of Bad Forms - Jessica Enders
- Two-Column Forms are Best Avoided - Caroline Jarrett
- The Information Architecture Behind Good Web Forms - Luke Wroblewski
- The Piece of HTML created just for Me: Reset - Caroline Jarrett
- Usability Tip: Use Verbs as Labels on Buttons - Dmitry Fadeyev
- Using Input Fields Fit For Purpose - Dmitry Fadeyev
- Web Application Form Layout - Luke Wroblewski
- Web Form Elements - Christopher Schmitt
- Web Form Design: Adobe's Error Messages - Luke Wroblewski
- Web Form Design Guidelines: An Eyetracking Study - Chui Chui Tan
- Web Form Design in the Wild, Part I - Luke Wroblewski
- Web Form Design in the Wild, Part II - Luke Wroblewski
- Web Form Design: Labels Within Inputs - Luke Wroblewski
- Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms - Vitaly Friedman and Sven Lennartz
- Web Form Design: ZIP Codes and Locations - Luke Wroblewski
- Web Forms: Death By a Thousand Textboxes - Jeff Atwood
- Web Forms for People - Luke Wroblewski
- Web Form Layouts: Some Additional Guidelines - Luke Wroblewski
- What Makes a Good Form? - Formulate
- What Makes a Good Form? - Jessica Enders
- What's the Right Order? - Tom Tullis
- Where the Heck is My Focus? - Jeff Atwood
- Why Does the OK Button Say OK? - Gerry McGovern
- Why People Persist with Using Paper Forms - Caroline Jarrett
- Zebra Striping: Does it Really Help? - Jessica Enders
Frames Usability
- Who Framed the Web: Frames and Usability - Roger Johansson
- Why Frames Suck (Most of the Time) - Jakob Nielsen
Guidelines & Principles (see Standards)
Homepages
- 7 Ways to Make Your Home Page a Home Run for Usability - Stoney deGeyter
- Are You Focusing Too Much on Your Home Page? - Christian Watson
- Don't Fight Over Your Home Page - Laurence Veale
- Don't Start With the Home Page - Cameron Moll
- Gone in Sixty Seconds or Less - Amit Gupta
- Graphics on Link-Rich Home Pages - Jared Spool
- Home Page Goals - Derek Powazek
- Home Page Googlization - Jared Spool
- Home Page Design - Daniel Szuc
- Homepage Usability and Credibility Survey - Andrew B. King
- Homepage Real Estate Allocation - Jakob Nielsen
- How Google Manages Its Homepage - Gerry McGovern
- Is Home Page Design Relevant Anymore? - Jared Spool
- Is Your Homepage Immature? - Indi Young
- Lifestyles of the Link-Rich Home Pages - Jared M. Spool
- MIT's Homepage: Preposterous or Ingenious? - Joshua Porter
- Prioritizing Design Time: A Long Tail Approach - Joshua Porter
- Quantitatively Test the Effectiveness of Your Home Page - Iain Barker
- Seven Roles of the Intranet Homepage - James Robertson
- The Canonical Intranet Homepage - Jakob Nielsen
- The Decline of the Homepage - Gerry McGovern
- The Homepage is Dead - John Eric Brandt
- The Intranet Homepage, Protect it with a Policy - Cairo Walker
- The Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines - Jakob Nielsen
- Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability - Jakob Nielsen
- Using Repertory Grid Interviews to Capture First Impressions of Homepages - V. Hinkle
Intuitive
- Intuitive - Adam Kalsey
- What Makes a Design Seem Intuitive? - Jared M. Spool
Learnability
- How Relying on 'User Education' is a Failed Strategy - Frank Spillers
- Intuition and Usability - Kevin Godby
- Progressive Disclosure - Jakob Nielsen
- Short-Term Memory - Jakob Nielsen
- Usability 101 By Jakob Nielsen
- Usability 101: Learnability - Tristan Louis
- Usability Glossary: learnability - Usability First
- Usability vs. Learnability - Jeff Atwood
- You're Only a First-Time User Once - Steve Calde
Line Length
- How Physical Text Layout Affects Reading From Screen - Mary C. Dyson
- Line Lengths When Reading From a Screen - Joe Clark
- Ideal Line Length for Content - Russ Weakley
- Line Lengths When Reading From a Screen - Joe Clark
- The Effects of Line Length on Reading Online News - A. Dawn Shaikh
- The Line Length Misconception - M. Jackson Wilkinson
- Text Columns: How Long is Too Long? - Jeff Atwood
- What is the optimal line length when reading prose text from a monitor? - Bob Bailey
Link Color (see Navigation)
Link Text (see Navigation)
Link Rot
- A longitudinal study of Web pages continued: a consideration of document persistence - Wallace Koehler
- Broken Links and Poor Information Architecture Design - Gerry McGovern
- Cool URIs don't change - Tim Berners-Lee
- Fighting Linkrot - Jakob Nielsen
- Link Rot by Adam Kalsey
- Link Rot in your Family Tree? A Case Study in the Dynamics of Internet Genealogy - Mark Howells
- Managing URIs - Olivier Thereaux
- The 410 Gone HTTP status- from the HTTP specification
- Explanation of "410 Gone" - Mark Pilgrim
- The Most Annoying Yet Almost Most Important Task in Professional Website Management - Jens Meiert
- Web Pages Must Live Forever - Jakob Nielsen
- What Is Link Rot and How to Prevent It - Alyssa Gregory
Liquid/Elastic/Fluid/Fixed Design
- 800x600, Should I Really Care? - Martin Ringlein
- A Dao of Web Design - John Allsopp
- A List Too Far Apart? - Jeremy Keith
- Actual Browser Sizes (final) - Thomas Baekdal
- Arguments For Flexible Webpage Layouts - Mike Davies
- Accessible Layouts - Alastair Campbell
- Design for Browser Size - Not Screen Size - Jesper Ronn-Jensen
- Do the Collapse (iphone) - Dan Cederholm
- Elastic Design - Patrick Griffiths
- Elastic Layout - Wrong Term? - Alastair Campbell
- Features Of The Jello Mold - John Gallant and Holly Bergevin
- Fixed Fashion - Jeremy Keith
- Fixed and Fluid, Myth and Meme - Mike Davies
- Fixed or Fuid, You Decide - Andy Clarke
- Fixed vs. Fluid - Patrick Griffiths
- Fixed vs. Fluid vs. Elastic Layout: What’s The Right One For You? - Kayla Knight
- Fixed vs Liquid vs Elastic - Tommy Olsson
- Fixed Width vs. Liquid Layout - Your Take - D. Keith Robinson
- Fixing Your Width: What's the Optimal Size for a Site? - Joe Dolson
- Flexible design of web sites - Stephen Poley
- Fluid Thinking - Peter-Paul Koch
- Full Page Zoom - Simon Willison
- Is 1024 OK? - Jon Hicks
- Jello: A Different Liquid Layout - Mike Purvis
- Jello Generator - Mike Purvis
- Jello Molds & Width Control - Mike Purvis
- Liquid Design for the Web - Adrian Roselli
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Web Design References: Usability
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