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| Usability Basics |
Short Articles BooksWeb Portals
If you are new to usability, these articles and other resources will help you get started.
Getting Started With Usability by David Dick (Usability Interface, October 1998)
What Does Usability Mean: Looking Beyond ‘Ease of Use’ Whitney Quesenbery, Proceedings of the 48th Annual Conference, Society for Technical Communication, 2001
What’s in
a Number? By Carol M. Barnum in Usability
Interface, January 2003. A look at the research behind how many
users are needed for a usability test.
The Usability Bookshelf is an extensive annotated bibliography of books on usability, human factors and interface design. The top recommended books are a good start to any library. The most-recommended books on usability testing are:
Dumas, J. and Redish, J. A Practical Guide to Usability Testing.
Ablex: Norwood, NJ, 1993. Amazon
Rubin, J. Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct
Effective Tests. Wiley: New York, NY, 1994. Amazon
Nielsen, J. Usability Engineering. Academic Press: Boston, MA, 1993.
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Snyder, C. Paper Prototyping, The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, 2003
Guide to Usability for Software Engineers - University of Maryland
Usability.gov - Great resources and research-based design guidelines from the US Department of Health and Human Services
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