http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Resources A listing of the most recently indexed works about Resources in the field of technical communication. en-us Copyright (c) 2005-08 by the EServer. All rights reserved. tclib-editorial@eserver.org (TC Library Editorial Board) webmaster@eserver.org (Geoffrey Sauer) http://tc.eserver.org/images/newlogo.gif http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Resources http://tc.eserver.org/35791.html http://tc.eserver.org/35791.html A group blog on social interaction design for social media by practitioners. http://tc.eserver.org/35742.html http://tc.eserver.org/35742.html The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and open-source tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use. http://tc.eserver.org/35744.html http://tc.eserver.org/35744.html We wanted to provide a comprehensive references of elements that are new or have been redefined in HTML5, so we've created a glossary. The purpose of the glossary is simple: we’re going to give you a breakdown of all the elements within the spec in clear, bite-sized chunks. http://tc.eserver.org/35619.html http://tc.eserver.org/35619.html XMLmind DITA Converter (ditac for short) allows to convert the most complex DITA 1.1 documents to production-quality XHTML 1.0, XHTML 1.1, HTML 4.1, JavaTM Help, HTML Help, Eclipse Help, PDF, PostScript®, RTF (can be opened in Word 2000+), WordprocessingML (can be opened in Word 2003+), Office Open XML (.docx, can be opened in Word 2007+), OpenOffice (.odt, can be opened in OpenOffice.org 2+). http://tc.eserver.org/35576.html http://tc.eserver.org/35576.html Designing the User Experience at Autodesk provides a venue for the individuals across our global user experience teams-including user researchers, designers, and user assistance professionals-to share insights on methods & practices, innovation, leadership, design’s connection to achieving business objectives, and reflections on topical interests in the design community. http://tc.eserver.org/35590.html http://tc.eserver.org/35590.html The site focuses on web usability, user research, usability testing, accessibility and standards focused design. http://tc.eserver.org/35536.html http://tc.eserver.org/35536.html I was preparing a report on freelance technical writers and noticed how hard it was to find technical writing sites run by writers, most were recruitment site. So I’ve made a list of the top 50 technical writers with a web presence. Some of these you might know, such as Darren Barefoot and Tom Johnson. I have also added some other writers from India, Russia and Israel to reach out to a wider audience. http://tc.eserver.org/35545.html http://tc.eserver.org/35545.html The technical writing process consists of four main phases. These are planning, writing, delivery, archiving. These phases are not necessarily set in stone and some variations do exist. Every writer is different and they each have their own way of writing that is distinct. http://tc.eserver.org/35547.html http://tc.eserver.org/35547.html Weblog collaboratif portant sur les enjeux sociopolitiques, technologiques et stratégiques entourant la normalisation et l'accessibilisation du Web, mais aussi un million d'autres trucs tout aussi futiles qui nous passent par l'esprit... http://tc.eserver.org/35548.html http://tc.eserver.org/35548.html 米国IBMアクセシビリティ・センターの提供情報や、IBMアクセシビリティ・リサーチ・グループによる高齢者・視覚障害者関連情報の公開など、アクセシブルな情報社会のための関連リソース。インターネット閲覧支援ソフト「らくらくウェブ散策®」の紹介など。 http://tc.eserver.org/35534.html http://tc.eserver.org/35534.html Unconditional Text is the result of three three technical writers with varied backgrounds from across the globe coming together to share their knowledge and experiences with the community. http://tc.eserver.org/35477.html http://tc.eserver.org/35477.html Here are 40 fantastic typography-related blogs that will allow you to expand your knowledge base of what typography really is. http://tc.eserver.org/35474.html http://tc.eserver.org/35474.html Generates screenshots of how websites appear at 800x600 and 1024x768 resolution in six commonly used web browsers. http://tc.eserver.org/35439.html http://tc.eserver.org/35439.html A weblog/podcast by an Information Architect living and working in Ottawa, Ontario. http://tc.eserver.org/35429.html http://tc.eserver.org/35429.html The official voice of the Society for Technical Communication and a blog to enable the tech comm community. http://tc.eserver.org/35413.html http://tc.eserver.org/35413.html Our best CSS gallery is a showcase of well designed websites by the best web designers and web developers around the world, css gallery help you to get inspirations for the web site projects as well as to learn and see what can be achieved through pure css layouts and web standard. http://tc.eserver.org/35342.html http://tc.eserver.org/35342.html Market overview of recommendable tools for creating screen captures (screenshots, screen dumps). Screen captures are required within all forms of software documentation, such as user manuals, online help files, interactive demos and tutorials, but also for web sites and brochures. http://tc.eserver.org/35343.html http://tc.eserver.org/35343.html Market overview of recommendable tools for creating software demos (so-called screencasts). Software demos are not only used for marketing purposes on web sites, but also as standalone tutorials or embedded within online help files and other sorts of software documentation. http://tc.eserver.org/35347.html http://tc.eserver.org/35347.html Überblick über empfehlenswerte Tools zum Erstellen von Bildschirmfotos (engl. Screen Captures, Screenshots oder Screen Dumps). Screenshots werden in allen Formen von Software-Dokumentation benötigt, z.B. für Handbücher, Online-Hilfen, interaktive Demos und Tutorials, sowie auf Webseiten und in Broschüren. http://tc.eserver.org/35293.html http://tc.eserver.org/35293.html Depending on who you ask, HTML 5 is either the next important step toward creating a more semantic web or a disaster that's going to trap the web in yet another set of incomplete tags and markup soup. The problem with both sides of the argument is that very few sites are using HTML 5 in the wild, so the theoretical solutions to its perceived problems remain largely untested. http://tc.eserver.org/35289.html http://tc.eserver.org/35289.html A blog about XML theory and XML applications. http://tc.eserver.org/35274.html http://tc.eserver.org/35274.html Swivel's mission is to make data useful. Compare data from multiple sources. Sort and filter data according to simple criteria. Map geographical data. Plot pie, bar, scatter and line graphs. Download data into a spreadsheet for analysis. http://tc.eserver.org/35278.html http://tc.eserver.org/35278.html Links to 100 organizational policies about the appropriate (and acceptable) use of social media by their employees. http://tc.eserver.org/35227.html http://tc.eserver.org/35227.html This style guide represents some of John Allen’s extraordinary wisdom surrounding the use of English in written and spoken communications. This is in many ways at the heart of what the BBC does and what it is respected for.This is not a “do and don’t” list but a guide that invites you to explore some of the complexities of modern English usage and to make your own decisions about what does and does not work. It should improve your scripts and general writing, not to mention making you feel better informed, challenged and amused. http://tc.eserver.org/35181.html http://tc.eserver.org/35181.html Dive Into HTML5 seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards. I shall publish Drafts periodically, as time permits. http://tc.eserver.org/35120.html http://tc.eserver.org/35120.html An organized kit of technical-writing exercises, guidelines, activities, and strategies refined and tested in real high-school classes, with notes and comparisons to help teachers borrow and adapt them. Also used for teacher professional development at the Edward Teller Education Center. http://tc.eserver.org/35113.html http://tc.eserver.org/35113.html This newsgroup posts news, trends, and articles about the field of technical communication. http://tc.eserver.org/35056.html http://tc.eserver.org/35056.html XSL stands for EXtensible Stylesheet Language, and is a style sheet language for XML documents. XSLT stands for XSL Transformations. In this tutorial you will learn how to use XSLT to transform XML documents into other formats, like XHTML. http://tc.eserver.org/35071.html http://tc.eserver.org/35071.html The YUI Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. YUI is available under a BSD license and is free for all uses. http://tc.eserver.org/35077.html http://tc.eserver.org/35077.html XM (XSLT Make) is a simple and affordable web-publishing content-management solution that takes advantage of XML and XSLT. http://tc.eserver.org/35045.html http://tc.eserver.org/35045.html The DITA Open Platform is a free, open-source project which goal is to provide an enterprise platform for the edition, management and processing of DITA documents. http://tc.eserver.org/34791.html http://tc.eserver.org/34791.html Defining quality means developing expectations or standards of quality. Standards can be developed for inputs, processes, or outcomes; they can be clinical or administrative. Unfortunately when it comes to documentation, many companies only focus on the standards related to time and accuracy. Quality standards should be in place for all aspect of the documentation development pathway—moving from planning, to authoring, to reviewing. http://tc.eserver.org/34789.html http://tc.eserver.org/34789.html This site is a project to learn, discuss and promote HTML 5. http://tc.eserver.org/34762.html http://tc.eserver.org/34762.html This XHTML cheat sheet is excellent for XHTML coders. Along with many basic attributes, this two-page grid includes references that even experienced web professionals would find useful. Three types of elements are defined in this cheat sheet: block, inline and table elements. The miscellaneous section includes 22 additional elements. Each row contains the name, description and attributes of each of the elements available for use. http://tc.eserver.org/34763.html http://tc.eserver.org/34763.html This cheat sheet is designed to not only be a quick reference for CSS properties but also to give you a good feel for how each property should be used. It contains all of the properties in the CSS2 specification including a description of the syntax of each one. http://tc.eserver.org/34767.html http://tc.eserver.org/34767.html This cheat sheet covers both ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0 and is organized to help those who need to switch to 3.0. The functions and classes of ActionScript 2.0 are to the left of each section, followed by their equivalents in ActionScript 3.0. http://tc.eserver.org/34768.html http://tc.eserver.org/34768.html This cheat sheet is logically organized into DOM methods, functions, regular expressions, etc. It’s easy to use and a great reference for all common JavaScript uses. The guide is not only excellent for JavaScript beginners (covering items as basic as the syntax for putting JavaScript into HTML) but is also suited to programmers at an advanced level (referring to more advanced JavaScript functionality). http://tc.eserver.org/34769.html http://tc.eserver.org/34769.html This PDF is not a guide to any specific language, and so would be great for developers who do not code in any specific language (or who code in more than one language). http://tc.eserver.org/34729.html http://tc.eserver.org/34729.html What is content strategy? Good question! We're working here to provide a basic definition of the field of interactive content strategy, its body of knowledge, and its practitioners. http://tc.eserver.org/34730.html http://tc.eserver.org/34730.html Content-Strategy.com is an English language version of a Scandinavian web resource called Nettredaktor.no ("Nettredaktør" is the same as "Web editor"). http://tc.eserver.org/34731.html http://tc.eserver.org/34731.html Nettredaktor.no ble skapt på Nettredaktørskolen, og drives av Nina Furu med bidrag og innspill fra flere andre nettredaktører og bransjekolleger. http://tc.eserver.org/34736.html http://tc.eserver.org/34736.html I have created this site in the hope that it will help newcomers to CSS and show old hands that it is more than just a mechanism for styling your documents. It is oh so much more. http://tc.eserver.org/34672.html http://tc.eserver.org/34672.html html5doctor is a collaboration between, Rich Clark, Bruce Lawson, Jack Osborne, Mike Robinson, Remy Sharp and Tom Leadbetter. The site came about following a HTML5 meetup after the Future of Web Design conference in London (2009). We decided that there wasn’t a resource that catered for the people who wished to find out more about implementing HTML5 and how to go about it, so we thought we’d better build one. We will publish articles relating to HTML5 and it’s semantics and how to use them, here and now. http://tc.eserver.org/34657.html http://tc.eserver.org/34657.html This is our renewed screencast resource. We discuss software, techniques and technologies and offer suggestions and tutorials to create the best onscreen demonstrations. We also have a useful resource directory that hopefully may direct you towards the best screencast stuff online. http://tc.eserver.org/34643.html http://tc.eserver.org/34643.html This standard is directed toward ensuring equitable access to all content on Government of Canada Web sites. http://tc.eserver.org/34615.html http://tc.eserver.org/34615.html A podcast and blog featuring practical web design accessibility tips. http://tc.eserver.org/34620.html http://tc.eserver.org/34620.html Practical eCommerce was launched in July 2005 by Kerry and Joy Murdock in Grand Junction, Colorado, USA. Its mission from the start has been to provide down-to-earth articles and advice to help smaller businesses succeed online. http://tc.eserver.org/34588.html http://tc.eserver.org/34588.html Includes articles contributed by STC members, some of whom have worked with translators extensively. Other contributors are affiliated with translation agencies. http://tc.eserver.org/34575.html http://tc.eserver.org/34575.html The purpose of this site become a comprehensive resource for finding disability information on the Internet. http://tc.eserver.org/34556.html http://tc.eserver.org/34556.html This Knowledge Management and Communication in the Life Sciences Blog is for those interested in medical, pharmaceutical, biological, and chemical research and development: the world of life science research. http://tc.eserver.org/34541.html http://tc.eserver.org/34541.html This website is a sandbox to show how the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) and the Open Toolkit can be used to create multilingual websites. DITA is an OASIS standard. http://tc.eserver.org/34522.html http://tc.eserver.org/34522.html Adobe's blog about their screen-capture and presentation software, Captivate. http://tc.eserver.org/34499.html http://tc.eserver.org/34499.html In this project we examined the common practices among website operators of collecting, sharing and analyzing data about their users. We attempted to identify practices which may be deceptive or potentially harmful to users’ privacy and we make recommendations for changes in industry practice or government regulations accordingly. We compared industry practices with users’ expectations of privacy, identified points of divergence, and developed solutions for them. http://tc.eserver.org/34475.html http://tc.eserver.org/34475.html Analysis and coverage doesn't exist without discourse. Analysts bring training, expertise, but most important - they bring a voice. However, there are other important voices that shape a given community. There are academic researchers who create new ideas and vendors that create products. http://tc.eserver.org/34484.html http://tc.eserver.org/34484.html The number of excellent resources that have come out since the beginning of the year on attracting links and building traffic has really mushroomed. Plus there are some timeless classics that are still very relevant today. I think it makes sense to compile the very best in one handy location and share it, so here’s my entire collection. If I missed your link and traffic resource let me know and I’ll take a look. http://tc.eserver.org/34472.html http://tc.eserver.org/34472.html The site is about Structured Authoring. That is a broad subject, but will focus on SGML and XML and the implementation. Tools used to author, manage, communicate and deploy data usually in the maintenance from some small widget to a large weapon system. Covering Mil-Stds and S1000D. http://tc.eserver.org/34435.html http://tc.eserver.org/34435.html The videos have been collected by the Inclusive Digital Economy Network. They present many of the challenges that older users often face when interacting with new technologies. The purpose of these videos is to highlight the issues in an insightful and thought-provoking way. http://tc.eserver.org/34436.html http://tc.eserver.org/34436.html This portal (organized into categories) lists external resources for content developers, technical communicators, information architects, and web designers. http://tc.eserver.org/34437.html http://tc.eserver.org/34437.html The widest data base referential for CMS (Content Management Systems) or, what the French-speaking people call, the PGC (Progiciels de Gestion de Contenu). Here, you will find the best information with regards to the large majority of the CMS, and their tools, found throughout the Web. http://tc.eserver.org/34438.html http://tc.eserver.org/34438.html Un site web pour afficher les différences entre des centaines de Progiciels de Gestion de Contenu. http://tc.eserver.org/34410.html http://tc.eserver.org/34410.html A collection on links to online resources of use to technical communicators. http://tc.eserver.org/34381.html http://tc.eserver.org/34381.html A blog and podcast about users, texts and technology. http://tc.eserver.org/34360.html http://tc.eserver.org/34360.html infotexture is the blog of an independent consultancy based in Potsdam, Germany with over 10 years of experience in technical documentation for information technology and telecommunications products. http://tc.eserver.org/34362.html http://tc.eserver.org/34362.html The DITA-OT plugin transforms a map into a single file, suitable for publication, and automatically call the xmlrpc API of the blog to publish it. The DITA Wordpress plugin adds a css (a slightly modified version of the DITA-OT commonltr.css) to your Wordpress theme to properly render the standard domains. http://tc.eserver.org/34364.html http://tc.eserver.org/34364.html Our goal is to bring people together — think social network organized around XML, DITA, content management and related topics. This blog serves as a hub for white papers and URL resources, contains a calendar of XML-related events and conferences, tracks industry trends, and keeps members up-to-date as to “what’s new” on the site. http://tc.eserver.org/34335.html http://tc.eserver.org/34335.html This generator will create a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to 3 columns and with header and footer. Values can be specified in either pixels, ems or percentages. http://tc.eserver.org/34336.html http://tc.eserver.org/34336.html This web-based service will develop a CSS file (with appropriate resets) for a multi-column web design to suit your preferences. http://tc.eserver.org/34313.html http://tc.eserver.org/34313.html Git, though remarkably handy and powerful, is also remarkably hard to use sometimes. Though you can learn the basics easily enough, it can be really tough to dig yourself out of certain corners if you don’t understand what’s going on under the covers. This page provides links to documents, how-tos, cheat sheets, tips, and tricks related to learning and using git. http://tc.eserver.org/34258.html http://tc.eserver.org/34258.html Worldspace is an accessibility analysis tool designed to identify errors with Section 508, and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. http://tc.eserver.org/34251.html http://tc.eserver.org/34251.html What I think my life is about is figuring out how to find success at the intersection of work and life—one happy, synchronized adventure. It's a difficult task, and I don't want to do it alone. So my blog is a community where we all do it together. http://tc.eserver.org/34245.html http://tc.eserver.org/34245.html CSSG is a community driven site dedicated to web standard run by web standards designer and developer Alen Grakalic. The site consists of two main sections: exclusive articles (mostly written by me) and community news sections. http://tc.eserver.org/34227.html http://tc.eserver.org/34227.html The goal of this site is to serve as a resource for academics trying to navigate the world of computing and technology. There are many sites that do a good job of exploring and theorizing how the growing digital presence is changing the world of academia, and there are also a host of sites that catalog ways to use technology effective, there certainly seems to be a lack of sites dedicated to bridging this gap. That is, outlining the more concrete ways technology and computers can be used to improve both teaching (how to get beyond the use of Power Point) and scholarship (did you know there are more effective, cheaper, alternatives to MS Word-how does a $30 word processor designed by academics sound?). http://tc.eserver.org/34190.html http://tc.eserver.org/34190.html Nettuts+ is a site aimed at web developers and designers offering tutorials and articles on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites. We cover HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS’s, PHP and Ruby on Rails. http://tc.eserver.org/34163.html http://tc.eserver.org/34163.html This guide is intended to help you write the best thesis you can by anticipating and answering common questions about content, structure, format, figures, and language. We have also included some suggestions on how to manage the process of turning your research -- your testing and reading, your findings and conclusions -- into a clear, complete, well-written, and convincing thesis or dissertation. http://tc.eserver.org/34173.html http://tc.eserver.org/34173.html A brief and basic tutorial about the XML-based scripting language. http://tc.eserver.org/34111.html http://tc.eserver.org/34111.html Coworking is a movement to create cafe-like community/collaboration spaces for developers, writers and independents. http://tc.eserver.org/34072.html http://tc.eserver.org/34072.html Our JW Player Controls is an attempt to get around the limitations for access that Flash presents, to provide a richer user interface to the JW FLV Player, and to enhance the contrast and readability of captions by providing an alternate viewing area for caption content. http://tc.eserver.org/34056.html http://tc.eserver.org/34056.html Medical writing is a great career! The work is interesting and often lucrative, and the demand for medical writers is high. Few people start out to be medical writers; most of us fall into it. Some of us have scientific or medical degrees (e.g., MD, PharmD, PhD in a scientific field) and have worked in the field (e.g., as an academic, bench scientist, physician, pharmacist) or in administration and somehow find ourselves doing medical communications work. Some of us have Journalism or English degrees, work in communications, and end up writing about health and medicine. http://tc.eserver.org/33924.html http://tc.eserver.org/33924.html Our templates are free and we do not offer any kind of support for our templates. You are responsible for editing and modifying the downloaded templates, backgrounds or products. http://tc.eserver.org/33892.html http://tc.eserver.org/33892.html A collection of resources of the technology of writing. http://tc.eserver.org/33871.html http://tc.eserver.org/33871.html If you try to find reliable information about InDesign on the Web you’ll find yourself scouring Adobe’s site or muddling through dozens of other sites for a tip or two. Now that you’ve found InDesign Secrets, it’s time to stop all that muddling. http://tc.eserver.org/33746.html http://tc.eserver.org/33746.html A blog about publishing and technical communications. http://tc.eserver.org/33718.html http://tc.eserver.org/33718.html Some basic terms and acronyms useful to the technical writer operating in Australia. http://tc.eserver.org/33674.html http://tc.eserver.org/33674.html AJAX is a name given to an existing approach to building dynamic web applications. Web pages use JavaScript to make asynchronous calls to web-based services that typically return XML. http://tc.eserver.org/33667.html http://tc.eserver.org/33667.html 'The Art of the Functional Spec' is a forum for those of us responsible for writing functional specs. We'll discuss the basics of functional spec writing, offer tips, provide examples and respond to your feedback and questions. http://tc.eserver.org/33633.html http://tc.eserver.org/33633.html Many people will answer that you need to look at the different tools, download trial versions, and test. But where is the list of tools to choose from? It’s here at TechComm Toolbox, your online resource for all applications, services, and consultants related to technical communication. http://tc.eserver.org/33586.html http://tc.eserver.org/33586.html A concise list of all acronyms, with individual letter indices (always accessible via the letter bar) which organizes the full names as well. http://tc.eserver.org/33530.html http://tc.eserver.org/33530.html Technical Communication blog about products, topics in Tech Comm, tools, teaching tech comm topics, and others http://tc.eserver.org/33531.html http://tc.eserver.org/33531.html Mike Hamilton covers topics like technology, PDAs, MadCap products, technical communication and more. http://tc.eserver.org/33512.html http://tc.eserver.org/33512.html All content that can be digitised – books, newspapers, magazines, newsletters, journals, research, music and film - is being digitised and distributed via the Internet. SubHub’s vision is to provide a solution for getting all this content online. http://tc.eserver.org/33473.html http://tc.eserver.org/33473.html The point of this blog is to look at all the things happening on the web now and in the future; the good, the bad and the downright fugly. But we'll be looking at it from the point of view of inclusivity. http://tc.eserver.org/33425.html http://tc.eserver.org/33425.html The mission of this site is to help web site developers who are considering or using Drupal. Drupal is a very powerful content management system using php and mysql. There are hundreds of modules and themes available, but instructions for most of these are sparse. My goal is to help you with Drupal, its modules, and its themes. http://tc.eserver.org/33426.html http://tc.eserver.org/33426.html The aim of the Persuasive Design group on LinkedIn is to connect people that are interested in Persuasive Design across both industry and academia. Once or twice a year mails are send about conferences or events that might be of interest to persuasive designers. http://tc.eserver.org/33420.html http://tc.eserver.org/33420.html I like to use software applications. I like to help people figure out how to use stuff. I like to write. I am a technical writer. http://tc.eserver.org/33424.html http://tc.eserver.org/33424.html Often conflicting pressures to produce communications that better fit customer demands as well as stay within tightening constraints on budgets and schedules are leading many technical communications organizations to a topic-based approach to authoring. In fact, 58% of participants in Aberdeen Group's October 2008 DITA and the Technical Communicator’s Transformation study report that they currently follow author content in a topic-based manner, with a vast majority of those remaining planning to implement one in the future. A topic-based approach promotes greater content reuse and is seeing a considerable impact on the authoring efficiency of technical communications projects today. The benefits of topic-based authoring can be compelling, with findings from the The Technical Communicator’s Transformation study indicating that when pursued the right way, topic-based authoring can have a broad range of benefits, enabling an organization to meet authoring and localization cost targets as well as documentation quality expectations, among others. However, as the adoption of this approach spreads, the advantages seen by today's leading organizations will flatten out. This Sector Insight provides a guide for current adoption of topic-based authoring and those still considering it; outlining the changes that are expected to take place in as topic-based authoring goes mainstream. http://tc.eserver.org/33382.html http://tc.eserver.org/33382.html Here you will find articles about web standards, accessibility and usability. Occasionally there will be articles where we digress from these topics. My hope for the future: web accessibility will not be around as a topic anymore. Noone will be able to make a living as an accessibility expert because all web sites will be accessible and accessibility will be an integral part of all development efforts. All authoring tools will comply with the ATAG recommendation and editors will only have a vague memory of how difficult it was to publish accessible information in the early 21st century. http://tc.eserver.org/33369.html http://tc.eserver.org/33369.html UI and us is a place for discussing and questioning the computer software and hardware UI’s and experiences that we take for granted. The good, the bad and the ugly as well as some history and some news. http://tc.eserver.org/33345.html http://tc.eserver.org/33345.html The Software Usability Measurement Inventory is a rigorously tested and proven method of measuring software quality from the end user's point of view. SUMI is a consistent method for assessing the quality of use of a software product or prototype, and can assist with the detection of usability flaws before a product is shipped. 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