25 Excellent Usability/UX Articles and Resources
Jens Meiert, March 30, 2007 / March 7, 2008.
This entry is filed under Usability, User Experience.
Today I thought I’d share some of the most valuable usability and user experience articles and resources I currently know, in a somewhat wild mix. Since there’s presumably enough to read and talk about later, please welcome some great articles and research papers you hopefully enjoy that much as I do (though you’ll certainly know several of them):
- Apple: User Experience Guides
- Calabria: An Introduction to Personas and How to Create Them
- Cameron: Why People Don’t Read Online and What to Do About It
- Crescimanno: Sensible Forms: A Form Usability Checklist
- Garrett: The Elements of User Experience (PDF, 17 KB)
- Hadley: Clean, Cutting-Edge UI Design Cuts McAfee’s Support Calls by 90 %
- Hawdale: The Vision of Good User Experience (PDF, 1,115 KB)
- Knemeyer: Completely Rethinking the Web
- Merholz: The Lure of the Single Click
- Merholz: User Experience Is a Quality, Not a Discipline
- Morville: User Experience Design
- Perfetti: Reassuring Users With Inukshuk Content
- Tullis et al.: A Study of Website Navigation Methods
- Usability.gov: Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines (PDF, 161,101 KB)
- UsabilityNet: International Standards
- Wroblewski: The Sweet Spot for Buying
- W3C WAI: Notes on User Centered Design Process (UCD)
- WebSiteOptimization.com: Clickstream Study Reveals Dynamic Web
Well, now that you surely miss some people, organizations, and/or more stuff concerning the above topics, here are excellent thus/though really popular sites where one always gets good advice and finds interesting stuff:
- Cooper, Alan
- Human Factors International
- Hurst, Mark
- Knemeyer, Dirk
- Nielsen, Jakob
- Norman, Donald
- Tognazzini, Bruce
- User Interface Engineering
- UXmatters
No matter that these are 27 resources, what are you favorites of both this and your own bookmarks list?
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On April 9, 22:11 CEST, Austin Govella said:
Jens,
That’s an awesome list.
There are two articles I keep close:
“Information Interaction Design: A unified field theory of design” by
Nathan Shedroff:
* http://www.nathan.com/thoughts/unified/“All watched over by machines of loving grace: Some ethical guidelines
for user experience in ubiquitous-computing settings” by Adam
Greenfield (Boxes and Arrows)
* http://tinyurl.com/nw3mxNot sure these belong on your list. They’re just good. Curious to hear
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On June 9, 22:48 CEST, Jens Meiert said:
You may of course also check my del.icio.us bookmarks tagged usability/ux but also temporary.
