I thought I would share with everyone some insight from World Usability Day Seattle 2007 which was last night. For those who do not know World Usability Day is a international event that takes place all across the world in more than 1,000 cities and locations. The links below are all links mentioned in the panel at the event of the event. Some are new, some are oldies but goodies, all are pretty useful or at least entertaining.
Photos from the Event
Books
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Third Edition (on Amazon Digital Web Magazine review Author’s site)
- The Image of the City (on Amazon)
- Don’t Make Me Think (on Amazon Digital Web Magazine review Author’s site)
- Defensive Design for the Web (on Amazon Digital Web Magazine review)
- A Pattern Language for Web Usability (on Amazon)
- Paper Prototyping (on Amazon)
- The Design of Sites (on Amazon)
- Communicating Design (on Amazon Book site)
- Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research (on Amazon)
- How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built (on Amazon)
- The Elements of User Experience (on Amazon Digital Web Magazine review
Book site) - Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web
(on Amazon Digital Web Magazine review Book site) - Ambient Findability (on Amazon Digital Web Magazine review” Book site)
Resources
- Digital Web Magazine (also see topics: Information Architecture, Usability, and User-Centered Design)
- Boxes and Arrows
- A Brief Message
- Rosenfeld Media
Software
- Microsoft Visio
- OmniGroup OmniGraffle
- Intuitect (plugin for Visio)
- MindManager
- Michael Angeles’s OmniGraffle Wireframe Palette
- TechSmith Morae
Adoption of Usability
- Crafting a User Research Plan
- Four Words to Improve User Research
- Adopting User-Centered Design
- Gorilla Usability (spelling is intended)
- Guerilla usability
Other Articles
- Acting on User Research
- Nondirected Interviews: How to Get More Out of Your Research Questions
- A first foray into user testing
- Usability for Developers
- Usability for Rich Internet Applications
- Understanding PowerPoint: Special Deliverable #5
- Recyclable Information Architecture
ROI of Usability
- Return on Investment for Usability
- ROI of Usability: A Collection of Links
- Usability Return on Investment
- The ROI of Usability
- What Good is Information Architecture Anyway?
- The ROI of Information Architecture
- Measuring the Value of Usability Engineering
Selling Usability
Speaker’s Sites
Photos
- Guerilla Usability meets bacon
- Modified road sign
- Directional road sign
- Confusing road sign
- Useful sign
- iPod Vend
- Blue Screen of Death
