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Nomensa (UK)
The strategic design company, combining usability, accessibility, design and technology (and the company I work for).
Usability.gov (National Cancer Institute):
A gathering of usability guidelines, rated by the research that backs them up.
SURL usability news:
from Wichita University. Good Articles from research on web & related usability.
HCI bib readings:
A pretty definitive list from Gary Perman.
List of University courses on HCI:
Webword:
a great usability (and related) blog, with quite a usability community showing up in the comments!
Usability Net:
a European 'Usability Network'.
Web-Based User Interface Evaluation with Questionnaires:
"A customizable Web-based perl CGI script to administer and collect data". (Gary Perlman).
Usability Views:
"1,800 articles about usability, IA, HCI and web design.", Useful guide to finding popular articles."
CHI-Web:
(Computer Human Interaction) from the ACM - biggest and most popular international HCI mailing list. (Search archive)
HCI resources network:
Most of the good stuff is members only.
Xerox Parc User Interface Research:
Research from the famous group.
Optimal Web:
Guidelines and articles, often very practical advice based on research.
Stats tools for Unix & MSDOS:
"A set of about 30 data manipulation and analysis programs." (Gary Perlman).
Usability Special Interest Group:
"contains bibliographies, web references, files to download and other material relating to usability activities."
Journal of Digital Information:
papers on research on information in digital environments (from Southampton University).
SHORE:
"University of Maryland's Shore dept research papers from 1997-2001, including page layout and navigation issues. (Under Ben Schneiderman)."
UI Web:
"writings on web and interaction design, including links to the best of CHI-Web"
Taskz:
"Executive resource for user-centered desgin."
AskTog:
"regular usability columns; well written, forceful arguments."
CHI-Web - Best of:
Collected links to some of the best threads in CHI-Web. (I.e. top HCI discussion).
Usability News:
News and research reports on usability
HCI Bibliography:
Largest set of links and resources for HCI.
User Interface Design Patterns:
These design patterns have been analyzed during the past five years by going through hundreds of designs.
Systems Concepts Back issues:
Berkley publications:
UPA - UK chapter:
Organization for usability practitioners in the UK. (US site is UPAassoc.org.)
Bailindo usability tools:
Usabilty tools and research from Berkley University
Consultancy List (US)
from the UPA
Tapeless Usability Lab Setup:
A description of how Joel Aufrecht setup a tapeless usability lab - recording the screen and comments to the hard drive.
Interaction Design Patterns:
Examines website design 'widgits' and picks out the most usable examples.
Interactions magazine:
Magazine for interface design from the ACM
SigCHI:
Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction. (ACM).
Useit.com:
is Jacob Nielsen's site - the usability guru of the web. By-weekly articles.
London usability Group:
Home of the UK UPA, London and UK based usability discussion forum.
Goggle HCI Page:
CHI Place:
An online discussion forum on Human-Computer Interaction (CHI) issues.
Uzilla - Heuristic review tool:
A Mozilla sidebar designed to facilitate the heuristic review process.
Microsoft's Interaction Design Fundamentals:
A summary of the key design issues for applications written for the Windows interface.
Usability Lab Rentals and Recruiting:
General directories for participant recruiting firms. (US Centric, but some in UK).
HCI index:
Links & upcoming events.
Uzilla:
A browser based web-usability evaluation tool.
Usability First:
Recommendations from a commercial company - tend to be more for the person external to usability.
Functional specification tutorial:
Tutorial on writing up a Functional Spec to streamline the development process.
Design guidelines for the Web:
From UsabilityNet.
Coffee break:
"The interaction designers coffee break", weekly posting and quarterly articles about interaction design.
Ben Schneiderman's Web Site:
PoorButHappy - Ethnography:
"guide to ethnography, when related to usability methods."
IBM Ease of use dept.:
British Computer HCI Society:
Offers a service to practitioners, researchers, consumers, and students.
Hypercam:
A little program that records the computers screen and microphone. Free trial, but commercial product.
Usability toolbox:
Describes all the major HCI methods. (A little dated now though...)
South African Usability Articles:
The joint South African Chapter of the ACM's SIG-CHI.
Web pages that suck:
In your face usability issues!
IBM's Make it easy 2001 conference:
Chinwag - usability List:
another place for UK usability discussions, occasionally more riskay, and tends to have more marketing oriented types.
Usability and beyond:
Provides information and resources related to usability in website design. (Error last time I checked - possibly overran on bandwidth?)
Vividence:
An interesting approach to 'usability' testing with huge samples.
UserWorks:
"usabiltiy tools, portable labs & labs in a bag/box etc."
Zoomerang:
For online surveys: hosting etc.
UIdesign.net:
"white papers & articles on interface & web design, with a focus on UML"
Flow-interactive (UK)
Optimum-web (UK)
Loughborough University published papers:
Interaction Design Centre Publications:
"Uni of Limerick (HCI, CogPsy, CSCW) Little dated, but solid research."
Web credibility:
Stanford Uni project on web credibility.
COGs:
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences (Sussex UK - Where I did my HCI Masters).
Indiana University - Usability Consulting Services:
"Usability Consulting Services, their primary role is to assist project teams within University Information Technology Services at Indiana University (USA)."
Ovo studios:
Info on usability labs etc.
Usability centre (UK)
UX Consults
Gmeta (Ireland)
Step Two (Australia)
Travel UCD (UK)
specialising in front end design of travel & hospitality websites.
User Centre (UK)
36 Partners (US)
Amber-light (UK)
Effortmark (UK)
"UX consult, specialising in Forms"
Site usability (UK)
The Usability Company (UK)
Bunnyfoot (UK)
Usability & accessibility consultants.
YouMeUs (UK)
Applied Psyche/Software engineering company.
CD9 (UK)
Digitext (UK)
Easy 2 use (UK)
37 Signals (US)
"usability & design specialists, masters of minimalist design."
AdaptivePath (US)
including the famous Jeffery Veen.
System-concepts (UK)
Creative Good (US)
good white papers with good stats
Interaction Design (US)
usability consultancy.
MetrixLab (US)
provider of web experience and behavior metrics.
Message First (US)
a NY based user experience consultancy with a CSS site.
UIEweb (US)
Jared Spool's company.
Usability Sciences (US)
"a leading provider of usability testing, founded in 1988."
Cadius (Spain)
Clarostudio (Spain)
Eyeglue (Spain)
Iconmedialab (Spain)
Infousabilidad (Spain)
Xperience consulting (Spain)
Usabilis (France)
Design For Lucy (France)
Axance (France)
Yuseo (France)
Artis Facta (France)
Frontend (Ireland)
usability and production company Ireland
Open Interface (Ireland)
Infodesign (Australia)
Nomos (Sweden)
PoInters:
"Patterns of Cooperative Interaction, mainly work-based offline examples, but useful for analysing the situations they describe."
Serco Usability (UK)
UI Patterns and Techniques:
Patterns and techniques that are intended to help you solve design problems.
Usability Glossary:
Usableproducts.com (US)
concentrate on mobile Internet usability.
Usablenet (US)
more code oriented than User-centred design
Advanced Common Sense (US)
Steve Krug's online home.
Fruhlinger (US)
Human Factors (US)
Ergolabs (US)
Userfocus (UK)
Dray & Associates (US)
consulting firm with some good links.
Usability by design (UK)
Carbon IQ (US)
UX Consults
Bulcmale (US)
Hyperlink Interactive (UK)
Corporate Consulting Solutions (UK)
with good Q & A on usability.
GUI Designers (UK)
Windows applications & web stuff
fhios (UK)
looks remarkably similar to CD9 above...?
Behavior Design (US)
U-XP (UK)
Cooper Interactive Design (US)
Interaction by Design (US)
NN Group (US)
The company of 'Gurus' from the US. (Neilsen, Norman, Tog etc.)
SUMI Evaluation questionnaire:
assessing quality of use of software by end users.
Usability decision matrix:
"how, when, and where to sell user-centered design into the development cycle."
Job tips for HCI graduates:
from the Human Factors something or other
HCI Jobs:
from the HCI resources network
Simply usable through design (US)
Usermetrics (UK)
User Vision (UK)
Syntagm (UK)
An Oxford-based consultancy supplying the skills of its two principals, William Hudson and Valerie Fawcett.
Simple usability (UK)
Ergonomica (UK)
CHARM:
Choosing Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Appropriate Research Methods.
Nooface:
next-generation user interfaces
Site-test (UK)
Site usability (UK)
South African Usability Articles:
Microsoft's User Interface:
A wide range of research projects.
Gary Perlman:
homepage with some useful resources.
Usability Lab Rentals and Recruiting:
General directories for participant recruiting firms. (US Centric, but some in UK).
User-lab (UK)
Instrata (UK)
CX Partners (UK)
"a design agency that creates better web, mobile and iTV experiences for your users"
Usability Resources (US)
A company, despite the name and top-level-domain.
iMetrix (UK)
Portable lab equipement - MiniDV:
Computer stupidities:
Although the primary aim of the site it to take the pee out of 'stupid' users, it can give an insight into the less informed point of view.
Conspicuity (UK)
Webusability (UK)
Canadian Governments implementation standards:
Developed to assist federal government departments and agencies with the implementation of the Common Look and Feel Standards.
Ask Slashdot, how to design Gov sites:
Practical guide to managing US government sites:
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