The Experts
The Experts Links
- Nielsen: Papers and Essays by Jakob Nielsen Online papers by Jakob Nielsen.
- Rosenfeld: Interview > Information Architecture Revealed Interview "Information Architecture Revealed!"; John S. Rhode interviewing Louis Rosenfeld, co-founder and president of Argus Associates. Louis is also co-author of the best-selling Internet book, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web.
- Rosenfeld - Is Less Really More? When it comes to the usability factor of tables of contents, is less really more?
- Rosenfeld - Yahoo! is Dead. Long Live Yahoo! Mini-Yahoo!'s inside the firewall.
- Spool: Jared Spool Presents Hard Evidence Spool uncovers the lessons his research has taught him about how best to design a site so that users don't end up thwarted
- Morville - Building a Synonymous Search Index Help users find the documents they're looking for by incorporating a 'thesaurus-like' hierarchy for your site.
- Rosenfeld & Morville - Web Architect Archive 1999 archive of feature articles from Web Architect magazine
- Morville - Virtual Documents: The Challenges of Chunking Advise for determining a level of granularity in breaking up documents for online viewing.
- Nielsen: Web Design vs. GUI Design (Alertbox May 1997) 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
- How to Develop a Corporate Intranet Standard -- PDF File From the consultants of Human Factors International (www.humanfactors.com). Requires Acrobat Reader.
- Nielsen: Frames Suck Most of the Time Why frames are usually a very bad idea.
- Moving WebWord Interviews with the Experts Site includes usability articles written by John S. Rhodes. This page is a good starting point.
- Shafer: Shafer presents tips from Nielsen, Spool, and Kleinberg To help bring you up to speed on the current state of the art in Web site usability, I interviewed three of the smartest people I know on the subject: Jakob Nielsen, David Kleinberg, and Jared Spool. For good measure, I threw in my own thoughts on the topic.
- Spool: 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.
- How to Develop an Effective GUI Standard -- PDF file From the consultants of Human Factors International (www.humanfactors.com). Requires Acrobat Reader.
- Nielsen: Guerrilla HCI Guerrilla HCI: Using Discount Usability Engineering to Penetrate the Intimidation Barrier
- Nielsen: Print design vs. Web design Dr. Jakob Nielsen highlights key differences between designing for print and designing for the web.
- Nielsen: Feedback From Users of an Archive (Alertbox Jan. 1999) 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.
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