| Directory > Computers > Internet > Web Design and Development > Web Usability > People Rosenfeld, Lou: Yahoo! is Dead. Long Live Yahoo!
Discussion on the inevitable collapse of Yahoo directory due to its size and complexity. He
Predicts mini-yahoo sites within corporate intranets.
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=3011/nam1012433819/
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Spool, Jared: Web Graphic Design Is Not What You Think, A Usability Perspective
"The number one activity on the Web is information retrieval." In part of his tutorial,
Spool explained his findings on graphic design and users' success.
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=2894/nam1012433861/
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Spool, Jared: Hard Evidence from Research
Spool uncovers the lessons his research has taught him about how best to design a site so that
users don't end up thwarted
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=2894/nam1012433859/
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Morville, Peter: Virtual Documents: The Challenges of Chunking
Advice for determining a level of granularity in breaking up documents for online viewing.
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=2604/nam1012432737/
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Morville, Peter: Building a Synonymous Search Index
Help users find the documents they're looking for by incorporating a 'thesaurus-like' hierarchy for
your site.
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=2879/nam1012433844/
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Rosenfeld, Lou: Is Less Really More?
When it comes to the usability factor of tables of contents, is less really more?
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=2890/nam1012433856/
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Norman, Don: Human Centred Design
Don Norman discusses the approach to usability when building his own website. This includes links
to related content by Jakob Nielsen
http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/hcd_website_design.html
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Schroeder, Will: Testing Web Sites with Eye-Tracking
Describes an experiment carried out to monitor the eye movements of visitors to a prototype web
site.
http://world.std.com/~uieweb/eyetrack1.htm
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Nielsen, Jakob: Multimedia Guidelines
A broad set of guidelines for multimedia on the web.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9512.html
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Szuc, Daniel: Usability in Hong Kong
Interview detailing the approach to web usability in Hong Kong.
http://webword.com/interviews/szuc.html
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Nielsen, Jakob: Site Map Usability
Most site maps fail to convey multiple levels of the site's information architecture. In usability
tests, users often overlook site maps or can't find them. Complexity is also a problem: a map
should be a map, not a navigational challenge of its own.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20020106.html
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Tognazzini, Bruce: First Principles
Bruce Tognazzini discusses basic prinicples of usability for both traditional applications and web
services.
http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html
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Veen, Jeffrey: Homepage
Jeffrey Veen is the author of "The Art & Science of Web Design". His home page
features details of the book and other links.
http://www.veen.com/jeff/
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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.
http://www.sensible.com/
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Schaffer, Eric: How to Develop an Effective GUI Standard -- PDF file
From the consultants of Human Factors International (www.humanfactors.com). Requires Acrobat
Reader.
http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/guistandards.pdf
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Nielsen, Jakob: Print design vs. Web design
Dr. Jakob Nielsen highlights key differences between designing for print and designing for the web.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990124.html
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Various: WebWord Interviews with the Experts
Site includes usability articles written by John S. Rhodes. This page is a good starting point.
http://webword.com/interviews/index.html
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Rosenfeld, Louis: Information Architecture Revealed
Interview with Louis Rosenfeld.
http://webword.com/interviews/rosenfeld.html
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Schaffer, Eric: How to Develop a Corporate Intranet Standard -- PDF File
From the consultants of Human Factors International (www.humanfactors.com). Requires Acrobat
Reader.
http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/webstandards.pdf
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Nielsen, Jakob: Guerrilla HCI
Guerrilla HCI: Using Discount Usability Engineering to Penetrate the Intimidation Barrier
http://www.useit.com/papers/guerrilla_hci.html
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Nielsen, Jakob: Feedback From Users of an Archive
How to collect usability data from site users, using a historical archive as the case study. Keep
surveys simple, collect data from real-world usage, and get feedback from friends of the site.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990110.html
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Nielsen, Jakob: Web design vs. GUI design
Designing for the Web is different from traditional user interface design. Fundamentally, the
designer gives up a lot of control to the user - get used to it: WYSIWYG is dead
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9705a.html
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Nielsen, Jakob: Frames Suck Most of the Time
Why frames are usually a very bad idea.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9612.html
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Nielsen, Jakob: Papers and Essays
Online papers by Jakob Nielsen.
http://www.useit.com/papers/
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