Wonderlane: Web Style Guides and Usability Sites ~

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Web Style Guides and Usability Sites ~

Elements of Design
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/elements_of_design/

A visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design
http://www.jjg.net/ia/visvocab/

Wire Frames
http://www.iawiki.net/WireFrames

Web Style Guide
http://webstyleguide.com/

Paper Prototyping
http://www.paperprototyping.com/
Jacob Nielsen on Paperprototyping: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030414.html

Jakob Nielsen's Website
The most widely read and recognized usability expert, Dr. Nielsen was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer.
Websites
http://www.useit.com/
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/
Top Ten Design Mistakes
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html
Introduction to Usability
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030825.html

Jan Chipchase, Future Perfect
Principal Researcher, User Research at Nokia
Blog
http://www.janchipchase.com/
How to look at the world from a functional design and usability point of view

Joel Spolsky, Joel on Software,
Software developer (formerly with Microsoft), author
Blog
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
On writing content, edited the book Best Software Writing
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BestSoftwareWriting.html

"To make people happy, you have to let them feel like they are in control of their environment. To do this, you need to correctly interpret their actions. The interface needs to behave in the way they are expecting it to behave.

Thus, the cardinal axiom of all user interface design: A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would. As Hillel said, everything else is commentary. All the other rules of good UI design are just corollaries."
- Joel Spolsky, User Interface Design for Programmers
Edward Tufte
Professor emeritus of statistics, graphic design, and political economy at Yale University, does one day seminars on data presentation and information graphics.
Website https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/
Q& A
https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a?topic_id=1
Minard’s Map
https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/minard

Donald Norman
Dr. Norman former VP of research at Apple Computer is credited with creating the field of usability
Website
http://www.jnd.org/Don Norman recommends the following books:
• Handbook of human factors and ergonomics Gavriel Salvendy 2005: Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
• Universal Principles of Design. William Lidwell, Kritina Holden & Jill Butler 2003: Gloucester, MA: Rockport Publishers.
• Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A HANDBOOK FOR ART STUDENTS by James Elkins

The Wayback MachineMicrosoft
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http:/www.microsoft.com

http://www.informationdesign.org/archives/2006_06.php

http://www.uxnet.org/

Books ~

User Interface Design for Programmers by Joel Spolsky (Paperback - Jun 26, 2001)

About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper and Robert M. Reimann (Paperback - Mar 17, 2003)

The Elements of User Interface Design by Theo Mandel (Paperback - Feb 1997)

Ambient Findability by Peter Morville (Paperback - Oct 1, 2005) - Illustrated

User Interface Design and Evaluation (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) by Debbie Stone, Caroline Jarrett, Mark Woodroffe, and Shailey Minocha (Paperback - Mar 22, 2005)

The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman (Paperback - Sep 2002)

The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems by Jef Raskin (Paperback - Mar 29, 2000)

The Essential Guide to User Interface Design: An Introduction to GUI Design Principles and Techniques, 2nd Edition
by Wilbert O. Galitz (Paperback - May 2002)

About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design by Alan Cooper (Paperback - Aug 11, 1995)