Class Materials
Additional Resources
Bibliography
Books and articles
- Rosenfeld, Louis and Peter Morville. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. O'Reilly, 1998.
- Nielsen, Jakob. Designing Web Usability. New Riders, 2000.
- Spool, Jared, et al. Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide. User Interface Engineering, 1997.
- International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. Special Issue on World Wide Web Usability. 1997 47(1) 1-222.
- Nims, Julia K. and Linda Rich. "How Successfully Do Users Search the Web?" College & Research Libraries News 59(3)(March 1998):155-158.
Web sites
- Alertbox - Jakob Nielsen's Column on Web Usability
- Cost of User Testing a Web Site - Alertbox, May 3, 1998
- Search and You May Find - Alertbox, July 15, 1997.
- The Difference between Intranet and Internet Design - Alertbox, September 15, 1997.
- Why On-Site Searching Stinks - User Interface Engineering
- Eight is More than Enough (on the number of users to test) - User Interface Engineering
- Usable Web: Guide to Web Usability Resources - Keith Instone, see especially the Usability Engineering section
- Usability Matters - Keith Instone, Web Review
Email Lists
- CHI-Web Mailing List - an ACM SIGCHI open discussion list on human factors aspects of the web
- SIGIA-L - Listserv of the Information Architecture Special Interest Group of ASIS (American Society for Information Science)
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