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Webnauts
07-06-2006, 03:47 AM
Why Usability is Important to You

Usability is the measure of the quality of a user's experience when interacting with a product or system - whether a web site, software application, mobile technology, or any user-operated device. Discover here http://www.webnauts.net/usability.html how usability can benefit you, as well as your visitors.

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- Usability.gov guidelines: http://www.usability.gov/
- NASA Usability Engineering Team: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/usability/index.html
- Usability Methods Table http://www.usabilitynet.org/tools/methods.htm
- Professional Website Usability: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/223
- Jesset Usability Tutorial: http://www.jessett.com/web_sites/usability/index.shtml
- Principles and strategies for practitioners designing universally usable sites: http://www.otal.umd.edu/UUPractice/
- Criteria for optimal web design (designing for usability): http://psychology.wichita.edu/optimalweb/
- Conducting Usability Research With Computer Users Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired: http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=5...DocumentID=1718 (http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=57&TopicID=167&DocumentID=1718)
- IBM Web design guidelines: http://www-3.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/publish/572
- Usability Toolkit @ InfoDesign: http://www.infodesign.com.au/usabilityresources/

timmathews.com
07-06-2006, 07:36 PM
Webnauts,
GOOD STUFF!
I liked reading your page and have begun looking through the guides you have listed.
Some are familiar, but more are not.
Thank you!

lasgas
02-14-2007, 06:02 PM
Here others source from www.7vn.com :
- http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/pdfs/stanfordPTL.pdf
- http://credibility.stanford.edu

Webnauts
05-07-2007, 02:38 AM
A guide for developing usable and useful web sites (step-by-step guide): http://www.usability.gov/process.html

kgun
05-07-2007, 08:27 AM
John, one of the best tools / guides I have seen the last years. Thank you very much for an outstanding link.

Webnauts
05-07-2007, 09:06 AM
Kgun I hope you are aware that you are always welcome buddy.