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A quick Google or Amazon search will reveal that there is no shortage of opinions and advice about website usability. Unfortunately, not all of it is good, practical, or comprehensible. We have included a few trusted resources below, and will continue to add and remove items from this page to keep it useful to you.
Websites
Websites are a great resource for material on usability. The best part... you know immediately if they are competent because you are looking at their website. Oh, the irony of finding a poorly designed site peddling their usability services! The two sites listed below provide clear, useful information on usability, and should be considered early and often in your usability education.
UseIt.com »
The "Yoda of usability", Jakob Nielsen, maintains a site chock full of usability truths and the latest news on the subject.
WebsiteTips.com > Usability »
The "Yoda of usability", Jakob Nielsen, maintains a site chock full of usability truths and the latest news on the subject.
Books on Usability
Designing Web Usability »
by Jakob Nielsen
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web »
by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld
Prioritizing Web Usability »
by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld
Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability »
by Steve Krug
Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crises points »
by Matthew Linderman and Jason Fried
As we continue to build our tips and best practices, we hope you consider us your first choice in usability resources on the web. Bookmark Benevolabs.com
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