FHTW Berlin Fachbereich 4 Internationale Medieninformatik MMA: Aktuelle Themen multimedialer Anwendungen Web Usability Sommersemester 2002

"It is not the Utility but the Usability of a thing that is in Question"
Thomas de Quincey (1785 - 1859)

• Books (required reading):
  
  • Jakob Nielsen. Designing Web Usability. New Riders Publishing, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. 2000 (ISBN: 1-56205-810-X)
  • Jeff Johnson. GUI Bloopers. Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. 2000 (ISBN: 1-55860-582-7)
• Books (supplementary material):
  • Donald A. Norman. The Design of Everyday Things [Psychology of Everyday Things]. MIT-Press, London, England. 1988 (ISBN: 0-262-64037-6)
  • Steve Krug. Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. Que.2000. ISBN (0-789-72310-7)
  • Mark Pearrow. Web Site Usability Handbook. Charles River Media. 2000. (ISBN 1-584-50026-3)
  • Jared M. Spool, Tara Scanlon, Will Schroeder, Carolyn Snyder, Terri DeAngelo. Web Site Usability. Morgan-Kaufman Publishers. 1999
  • Vincent Flanders and Michael Willis. Web Pages That Suck. Sybex. 199. (ISBN: 0-7821-2187-X)
  • Nielsen, J. (1993b). Usability Engineering. Academic Press, London. ISBN 0125184050 (de, uk).
  • Holzinger, Andreas: Basiswissen Multimedia, Band 3: Design. Vogel Buchverlag, Würzbugr. ISBN 3-8023-1858-7. 2001.
  • Thomas A. Powell. Web-Design - The Complete Reference. Osborne / Mc Graw Hill Verlag. ISBN: 0-07-212297-8. Preis: 80 DM, 872 Seiten
    
• Links:
  • www.useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's site -
    Response Times: The Three Important Limits. http://www.useit.com/papers/responsetime.html.
  • usableweb.com: Keith Instone; Usable Web: Guide to Web Usability Resources
  • www.goodexperience.com: Mark Hurst; goodexperience.com
  • www.asktog.com: Bruce ``Tog'' Tognazzini; Ask Tog;
  • www.uie.com: Jared Spool, User Interface Engineering
  • www.tomalak.org: Lawrence Lee; Tomalak's Realm
  • www.pantos.org/atw: Terry Sullivan; All Things Web
  • www.webdesignclinic.com: WebVoodoo's WebDesignClinic
  • www.webpagesthatsuck.com: Vincent Flanders' classic site
  • www.bignosebird.com: BigNoseBird
  • builder.com: CNET Builder.com
  • www.wpdfd.com: Joe Gillespie; Web Page Design for Designers
  • www.dsiegel.com/tips: David Siegel; Web Wonk: Tips for Writers and Designers
  • Levi and Conrad; A Heuristic Evaluation of a World Wide Web Prototype; Interactions, July/Aug. 1996. http://stats.bls.gov/orersrch/st/st960160.htm
  • Isys Information Architects: Interface Hall of Shame and Interface Hall of Fame
• Special thanks to Keith Andrews, IICM Graz University of Technology, http://www.iicm.edu/hci/, for kindly permitting me to make use of his slides!