| 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. |
| Internet Brothers: Helpware for the Cybercommunity 
Expanding web community by offering free tips and tutorials about HTML and DHTML, graphics editing, site promotion, digital photography, and desktop publishing. Presented often with a touch of humor, and always with examples. |
| Java Software Human Interface
Essential information about human interface design and usability for applications and applets written in the Java programming language. |
| JavaScript and Web Site Usability
An Interview with JavaScript Guru, Mr. Danny Goodman on how JavaScript can make a web site easier to use. |
| Jef Raskin
A site by and about Jef Raskin, interactive systems design expert. |
| Jeffrey Veen: The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds
RSS feeds are surprisingly difficult for the average user to use. |
| Klariti Guide to Usability and Information Architecture 
Directory contains over 500 links, mainly to scholarly articles. |
| Lynx Friendly 
The key to being Lynx Friendly is to be consciously aware of the HTML which goes into creating a web page and to ensure that those using a non-graphical browser are not ignored. |
| Millennial Living 
Articles on web usability, e-government, government performance, and technology tips for small businesses, nonprofits, and government. |
| 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. |
| Morville, Peter: Virtual Documents: The Challenges of Chunking
Advice for determining a level of granularity in breaking up documents for online viewing. |
| Navigation 101
A simple, understandable navigation scheme is a critical aspect of site design and has a direct effect on the bottom line. |
| Nielsen Norman Group 
Reports and columns on usability and human interface design by Jakob Nielsen, Don Norman, and Bruce 'Tog' Tognazzini. |
| 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. |
| Pointafter.com - 20 Do's and Don'ts of Web Usability
Tips from George Prociuk. |
| Principia Hypertextica: Introduction
A mathematics educator's view of web design. Encourages speed, accessibility, validity, and navigability. Discusses difficulties of math typesetting on the web. |
| Publish.com - Flash and Usability
Guidelines for usable Flash, By Ilise Benun. |
| Readability Of Websites With Various Foreground/Background Color Combinations, Font Types And Word Styles
1997 psychology research project by Alyson L. Hill at Stephen F. Austin State University. Participants scanned simulated websites for a target word; readability was inferred from reaction time. |
| Roger C. Parker - Eleven Common Web Page Design Frustrations and How To Cure Them
How to keep web page design from interfering with communication to visitors. |
| Rosenfeld, Lou: Is Less Really More?
When it comes to the usability factor of tables of contents, is less really more? |
| 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. |
| Schaffer, Eric: How to Develop a Corporate Intranet Standard -- PDF File
From the consultants of Human Factors International (www.humanfactors.com). Requires Acrobat Reader. |
| Schaffer, Eric: How to Develop an Effective GUI Standard -- PDF file
From the consultants of Human Factors International (www.humanfactors.com). Requires Acrobat Reader. |
| 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. |
| Scottberkun.com
Expert columns on web usability, interaction and web design. |
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