Top 10 Usability websites and blogs for World Usability Day

 – posted November 14th, 2006 by Laurence Veale     Comments (6)

The ten usability websites I visit most often are:

  1. UIE.com: Jared Spool and his team at UIE are probably the most active voices on usability on the web at the moment through their Brain Sparks blog
  2. Jakob Nielsen’s useit.com: love it or hate it, it makes for an interesting anthology of usability going back to 1995 when usability was only a twinkle in the web’s eye.
  3. UX Matters: The user experience matters and this site has plenty of articles on why.
  4. World Usability Day: For the day that’s in it, this one’s worth a link
  5. The Usability Professionals Association (UPA), the body that helps promote usability on a global scale and the organisation behind World Usability Day. One area of note on the site is the Journal of Usability Studies.
  6. The Software Usability Research Lab at Wichita State University publishes usability research reports every six months
  7. Usability news is a site with usability news from around the world.
  8. InfoDesign.org provides an aggregation of usability news and articles from around the web
  9. Boxes and Arrows resurfaces from the bowels of our Usability resources section. In the words of David Moore, Boxes and Arrows is an “Intelligent peer-written journal on information architecture and user-centered design. Lots of practical information as well as conceptual back-up”.
  10. This one is a recent favourite of mine, Paul Adams’ Re-frame blog is an interesting commentary on the user or customer experience both on- and off-line.

What are your favourites?

So that’s my top 10, what are yours? Leave a comment and let me know.

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