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Accessibility Components Resource List
In trying to build accessible products, it is sometimes difficult to find key components. This is particularly true when building prototypes or coordinating small volume productions. This resource listing is provided to assist people in finding sources for key accessibility components such as accessible telephone handsets (for use on kiosks, etc.), voice technology products and other accessible components. It is maintained on an 'as we find it basis.' In other words, when we locate particular components or they are brought to our attention, we wll include them here.
University of Wisconsin. Resources>Usability>Accessibility>Universal Usability
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A blog from Bangalore based on everything related to the user experience and interaction.
Monteiro, Percy. Blogspot. Resources>Usability>User Centered Design>Blogs
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An Annotated List of Interaction/Web Design Resources, Books and Websites
This list provides resources about web design, usability, and related topics.
Berkun, Scott. UIWeb (2001). Resources>Bibliographies>User Interface>Usability
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An interactive tutorial about usable website design.
Schutz, Bart. Interview NSS. Resources>Multimedia>Usability>Web Design
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Bazzmann|Mag si occupa di design molecolare, accessibilità, usabilità, web e UI design, standard W3C, semantic web e architettura dell'informazione.
Trevisan, Marco. Bazzmann. (Italian) Resources>Web Design>Usability>Blogs
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This Indian usability blog attempts to bridge the gap between user requirements research and UI design.
Pillai, Muthu. Blogspot (2004). Resources>Usability>User Centered Design>Blogs
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Catalyze is a member-driven community for all professionals involved in defining business systems, designing software applications and creating websites. If you are a business analyst, usability professional, UI designer, information architect, interaction designer, product manager, project manager or anyone else involved in the definition process of software applications, this community is for you and will be worth your time.
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In het boek zijn vanaf pagina 375 in appendix A een aantal checklists opgenomen die kunnen dienen als controle bij het ontwerp van uw eigen gebruikersvriendelijke pagina's. U kunt deze checklists hier downloaden.
van Rijswijk, Oskar. HandboekUsability.nl. (Dutch) Resources>Usability>Methods>Forms
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Usability, user experience, technology, ethnography, design, the workplace, e-government and public policy, from a UK perspective.
Ferguson, Louise. City of Bits. Resources>Usability>User Experience>Blogs
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The contextual inquiry is a specific type of interview for gathering field data from users. It is usually done by one interviewer speaking to one interviewee (person being interviewed) at a time. The aim is to gather as much data as possible from the interviews for later analysis.
UsabilityNet. Resources>Usability>Methods>Contextual Inquiry
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Critical incident technique is a method of gathering facts (incidents) from domain experts or less experienced users of the existing system to gain knowledge of how to improve the performance of the individuals involved.
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Designing More Usable Documents
This section of Designing a More Usable World is dedicated to cooperative efforts linked toward creating more usable documents for all. A number of interrelated efforts and projects are listed below.
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Designing More Usable Web Sites
This section of Designing a More Usable World is dedicated to cooperative efforts linked toward building a more usable Web for all. At the present time, there are a number of interlocking and interrelated efforts.
University of Wisconsin (2001). Resources>Usability>Accessibility>Web Design
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Documentation Testing Checklist 
Check out this new Documentation Testing Checklist, which offers categories and suggestions to use when testing documentation.
O'Sullivan, Cara. TECHWR-L (2002). Resources>Usability>Tools
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E-Commerce Usability and Trust
Egger's research starts with a model of trust for e-commerce, then derives tools that designers can use to evaluate or design trustworthiness into e-commerce websites.
Egger, Florian N. EcommUse (1999). Resources>Bibliographies>E Commerce>Usability
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Collection of principles that can also form a process for editing web content to make it usable.
Jarrett, Caroline. Editing That Works (2005). Resources>Editing>Technical Editing>Usability
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Findability refers to the quality of being locatable or navigable. At the item level, we can evaluate to what degree a particular object is easy to discover or locate. At the system level, we can analyze how well a physical or digital environment supports navigation and retrieval. This website is a selective, seriously incomplete, and perpetually evolving collection of links to people, software, organizations, and content related to findability.
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A focus group is a focused discussion where a moderator leads a group of participants through a set of questions on a particular topic. Focus groups are often used in the early stages of product planning and requirements gathering to obtain feedback about users, products, concepts, prototypes, tasks, strategies, and environments. Focus groups can also be used to obtain consensus about specific issues.
Usability Body of Knowledge. Resources>Usability>Methods>Focus Groups
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FucinaWeb è un sito indipendente di risorse e articoli per sviluppatori e designer web che volge un occhio di riguardo alle problematiche di usabilità e accessibilità.
FucinaWeb. (Italian) Resources>Directories>Accessibility>Usability
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Provides usability guidelines and quick fix checklists for designing usable Web sites.
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A collection of links to Turkish-language online resources in web design and web usability.
Ersoy, Halil. Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi. (Turkish) Resources>Web Design>Usability
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Blog on all aspects of HCI, technology, design, usability, and its impact of society, users, ethics and life.
Beale, Russell and Peter Lonsdale. University of Birmingham. Resources>Human Computer Interaction>Usability>Blogs
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Heuristic evaluation is a form of usability inspection where usability specialists judge whether each element of a user interface follows a list of established usability heuristics. Expert evaluation is similar, but does not use specific heuristics. Usually two to three analysts evaluate the system with reference to established guidelines or principles, noting down their observations and often ranking them in order of severity. The analysts are usually experts in human factors or HCI, but others, less experienced have also been shown to report valid problems. A heuristic or expert evaluation can be conducted at various stages of the development lifecycle, although it is preferable to have already performed some form of context analysis to help the experts focus on the circumstances of actual or intended product usage.
UsabilityNet (2005). Resources>Usability>Methods>Heuristic Evaluation
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A usability evaluation method in which one or more reviewers, preferably experts, compare a software, documentation, or hardware product to a list of design principles and list where the product does not follow those principles.
Usability Body of Knowledge. Resources>Usability>Methods>Heuristic Evaluation
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An Indian UX, HCI, UCD, Usability Blog
A blog on user experience, HCI, and usability in India.
Pillai, Muthu. Muthu Pillai (2004). Resources>Human Computer Interaction>Usability>Blogs
