Prof. Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff: MMA1

FHTW Berlin / Fachbereich 4
Internationale Medieninformatik
MMA: Web Usability
Sommersemester 2005
Prof. Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff

Link List

"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)
- Steve Krug. Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. New Riders Publishing.2000. ISBN (0-789-72310-7)
  [A paperback edition is to be published "soon". ]
Books (supplementary material):
- Donald A. Norman. The Design of Everyday Things [Psychology of Everyday Things]. MIT-Press, London, England. 1998
- Jeff Johnson. GUI Bloopers. Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. 2000
- Mark Pearrow. Web Site Usability Handbook. Charles River Media. 2000.
- 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. 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, Würzbugr. 2001.
- Thomas A. Powell. Web-Design - The Complete Reference. Osborne / Mc Graw Hill Verlag.
  2000.
- Derek Powazek. Design for Community. the art of connecting real people in virtual places.
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.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.
- Usability Toolbox
- www.baddesign.com
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!
Accessability Links:
- http://www.barrierefreiesinternet.de/
- Web Accessability Iniative (WAI)
- Trace Center, University of Wisconson, Madison
- National Center for Accessable Media (check out the examples section / Flash for some AWESOME stuff!)
- VISCHECK - color blindness simulator

Debora Weber-Wulff (weberwu@fhtw-berlin.de)