Resources
Usability Resources
Professional Associations:
- Usability Professionals Association
- Society for Technical Communications Special Interest Group on Usability & User Experience
- Association for Computer Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
Informational Web Sites on Usability Methods:
- Usability.gov (provided by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)
- Society for Technical Communications Special Interest Group on Usability & User Experience
- Usability Net (provided by the European Union)
- Usability Professionals Association Body of Knowledge web site
- Wikipedia page on usability
Online Publications about Usability Topics
- Jakob Nielsen’s usability web site
- Whitney Quesenbery’s publications page
- Steve Krug’s usability web site
- Jared Spool’s articles on the User Interface Engineering web site
- Human Factors International’s technical material page
Books on Usability:
- A Practical Guide to Usability Testing
by Joseph S. Dumas and Janice c. Redish - Designing Web Usability
by Jakob Nielsen - Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research
by Mike Kuniavsky - Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
by Steve Krug - Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests
by Jeffrey Rubin - Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
by Jakob Nielsen & Marie Tahir - Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content That Works
by Janice (Ginny) Redish - Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines
by Sanjay J Koyani, Robert W. Bailey, and Janice R. Nall - Usability Engineering
by Jakob Nielsen
Web Accessibility Resources
Informational Web sites:
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative
- U.S. Government accessibility requirements
- Section 508 Home Page for Electronic and Information Technology
- University of Minnesota’s site on Accessibility of Information Technology
- Web Accessibility in Mind Initiative of the Center for Persons with Disabilities and Utah State University
- Sarah Horton’s site on universal usability
- Wikipedia page on web accessibility
Books on Web Accessibility
- Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers
by Sarah Horton - Constructing Accessible Web Sites
by Jim Thatcher, Paul Bohman, Michael Burks, Shawn Lawton Henry, Bob Regan, Sarah Swierenga, Mark D. Urban, and Cynthia D. Waddell - Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance
By Jim Thatcher, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Mark Urban, and Bruce Lawson
Eye-Tracking Resources
Informational Web Sites:
- Wikipedia page on eye-tracking
- Jakob Nielsen’s web page on eye-tracking
- User Interface Engineering’s web page on eye-tracking
- Poynter Institute’s Eyetrack III project
- Articles about eye-tracking
- Sample eye-tracking demo on YouTube
Books on Eye-Tracking:
- Eye Tracking Methodology
by Andrew Duchowski - Eyetracking Web Usability
by Jakob Nielsen and Kara Pernice
For more information contact:
David Rosen
Usability Services Manager
Phone: (612) 624-9365
E-mail: rose0414@umn.edu
