Usability and User Experience Resources

Calendars

InformationDesign.org events listings - a good blog that keeps up with announcements, calls for papers and other announcements

STC Technical Communications Conferences - this listing includes STC regional conferences and other related associations

Bay Area Chapter of ACM SIGCHI - lists events in the Bay Area

UXnet events listings - UXnet is building a common calendar for user-experience events around the world

General Usability Sites

Usability.gov - Great resources and research-based design guidelines from the National Cancer Institute

UsabilityNet - A resource collection, with emphasis on methods, making the case for usability and business issues

Usable Web - an indexed collection maintained by Keith Instone

Usability News.com - news and articles from the British HCI group

WebWord - articles and commentary

UseIt - Jakob Nielsen's site with articles and commentary

Information Design - compilations of good articles in the field, by date and category. 

Usability in ACTS (Advanced Communication Technologies and Services) - Human factors, usability, and user-centered design resources. There are links to tutorials on usability, style guides, and other human-computer interaction (HCI) sites.

TaskZ - An "executive resource for user-centered design" from Mauro NewMedia

GUUUI - The Interactions Designers Coffee Break with daily postings and quarterly articles

Web Design References - University of Minnesota Duluth's reference portal

Sites in Languages other than English

These resource lists in languages other than English are donated by volunteers. They are primarily portals--starting points for finding usability resources in that language.

• French
• Dutch
• Italian
  • webusabile.it - risorse di web-usabilty
• Spanish
  • Cocktail de Arquitectos de Información - Es una reunión informal de profesionales y gente interesada en la arquitectura de información y usabilidad - Barcelona, Madrid
  • Nosolousabilidad.com - es un proyecto web que pretende servir de herramienta para la comunicación e intercambio de conocimiento entre desarrolladores e investigadores Web.
• German
  • Alp Uçkan’s Website
  • Institut für Software-Ergonomie und Usability (German and English)
    

Bibliographic Sites

Research Index (formerly CiteSeer) - a cross-referenced digital library with tools that follow citations between articles. The tools used on this site are available for use on other sites.

HCI Bibliography - over 20,000 records with links to articles and other HCI resources. Maintained by Gary Perlman.

InformeDesign the "first centralized clearinghouse of design and human behavior research on the Web" This site is sponsored by the ASID - American Society of Interior Designers - but has work relevant to usability and interaction design

EServer TC Library - A general technical communications library, including categories on usability and communications