HTW Berlin Fachbereich 4 Internationaler Studiengang Internationale Medieninformatik (Bachelor) WT2: Usability Winter Term 2017/18

• Books (strongly suggested reading):
  
  • Donald A. Norman. The Design of Everyday Things [Psychology of Everyday Things]. Revised & Expanded Edition. New York: Basic Books. 2013
  • Jakob Nielsen. Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity. New Riders Publishing, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. 2000
  • Steve Krug. Don't Make Me Think! Revisited. Web & Mobile Usability New Riders Publishing. 3rd Edition. 2013. ISBN (978-0321965516)
    
  • Kathy Baxter, Catherine Courage & Kelly Caire: Understanding Your Users - A Practical Guide to User Research Methods. 2nd edition. Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann. 2013.
    
    
• Books (supplementary material):
  
  • Jeff Johnson. GUI Bloopers 2.0. Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers. Revised edition. Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers. 2007
  • Steve Krug. Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-it-yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems. New Riders. 2009.
  • Vincent Flanders and Michael Willis. Web Pages That Suck. Sybex. 1998.
  • Vincent Flanders and Dean Peters. Son of Web Pages That Suck. Sybex International. 2002.
  • Jakob Nielsen. Usability Engineering. Academic Press, London. 1994.
  • Andreas Holzinger. Basiswissen Multimedia, Band 3: Design. Vogel Buchverlag, Würzburg. 2001.
  • Derek Powazek. Design for Community. the art of connecting real people in virtual places. New Riders. 2001.
    
    
• Links:
  • www.nngroup.com: Donald Norman & Jakob Nielsen's site
    Response Times: The Three Important Limits.
  • Skeptech: " the world's first event to question the tech industry, raise awareness about some of its problematic behavior, and describe positive ways of building, managing, and using technology to actually make the world better."
  • www.asktog.com: Bruce ``Tog'' Tognazzini; "Interaction Design Principles for the Real World"
    especially "First Principles of Interaction Design"
  • www.webpagesthatsuck.com: Vincent Flanders' classic site
  • www.uie.com: Jared Spool, User Interface Engineering
  
  
• Accessability Links:
  • www.barrierefreiesinternet.de
  • Web Accessability Iniative (WAI)
  • Trace Center, University of Wisconson, Madison
  • National Center for Accessable Media
    
    
• Tools
  • Google PageSpeed Tools
  • VISCHECK - color blindness simulator
    
    
• Special thanks to Keith Andrews, IICM Graz University of Technology, http://www.iicm.edu/hci/, and Juliane Siegeris, HTW Berlin, for kindly permitting me to make use of their slides!

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