“We're not about having technology running the kids.” – C. Ross
Featured Sites
UX Pioneers “Aims to reveal the motivations and perspectives of key players in the User Experience industry through in-depth interviews and discussions with the site's publisher, Tamara Adlin.”
Community
Refresh “Community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of New Media endeavors in their areas. Promoting design, technology, usability, and standards.”
Added January 5, 2008
Education
24 ways “The advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December we publish a daily dose of web design and development goodness to bring you all a little Christmas cheer.”
Added February 1, 2009
Boagworld Podcast “A weekly podcast by Paul Boag with UX consultant Marcus Lillington on building and running websites.”
Added March 2, 2011
chronotext “A growing collection of software experiments exploring the relation between text, space and time”
Added December 1, 2008
From the Couch “Online Video show, hosted by brothers Marc and David Perel, which covers everything web orientated. We show you CSS tips, how to create websites from nothing and also chat about news in the web world.”
Added August 2, 2009
Frontend Usability InfoCentre “Contains regularly updated features and advice on topics relating to usability. We also illustrate the dos and don'ts of interface and application design with our comprehensive web review site.”
Added May 31, 2002
HCI Bibliography “A free-access online bibliographic database on Human-Computer Interaction. The basic goal of the Project is to put an electronic bibliography for most of HCI on the screens of all researchers, developers, educators and students in the field through the World-Wide Web and anonymous FTP access.”
Added May 31, 2002
History of the Button “Tracing the history of interaction design through the history of the button, from flashlights to websites and beyond.”
Added September 30, 2007
Human Interaction Design Protocol “HIDP ia an online educational resource portal for programmers, designers and educators to bridge the gap, open communication and foster collaboration through the following steps—Education, Integration, Collaboration and Resources.”
Added June 19, 2002
Hyper Island “Started in 1995 when Jonathan Briggs, David Erixon and Lars Lundh met during a project involving a CD-rom production. They soon realized the increasing need of a different kind of education involving industry based learning, for the growing new media industry.”
Added October 2, 2011
Interaction Design in Wikipedia.
Added December 30, 2005
Interactive Educational Multimedia
Added May 28, 2004
Teach the Web “Leslie Jensen-Inman's course materials and resources to help improve the education of web designers and developers.”
Added October 18, 2009
Touch “Research project that investigates Near Field Communication (NFC), a technology that enables connections between mobile phones and physical things.”
Added June 27, 2010
UI Resource Center “A place to learn from the experts, gain insights from thought leaders and participate in interchange among the user interface community to improve user interface adoption rates of your rich Internet applications.”
Added March 1, 2009
Usability First™ “Provides information and resources for key issues related to usability in website and software design. We believe that helping people do their work in an effective and enjoyable way should be the top priority in design because if a product is not usable, people will not use it.”
Web Standards for Skeptics “Presentations by Michael Montgomery”
Added December 28, 2007
Wee Nudge “Trying to convince a client not to squeeze everything above the fold? Is your whitespace filling up fast? We've collected a variety of articles on some sticky web subjects that might just help you make your point. Send your client to one of our topic pages for a quick intro, some links and a wee nudge in the right direction.”
Added October 2, 2011
Welie.com “Patterns in interaction design by Martin van Welie”
Added May 13, 2007
Events
Build “Leading-edge event covering design, standards, best practice and accessibility on the web.”
Added February 2, 2010
Conferences and Workshops from HCI Index.
Added February 5, 2003
dConstruct “An affordable, one-day conference aimed at those designing and building the latest generation of web-based applications”
Added November 28, 2007
Added November 18, 2007
IDEA “A conference on designing complex information spaces of all kinds.”
Added September 16, 2007
OneWebDay “One day a year when we all—everyone around the physical globe—can celebrate the Web and what it means to us as individuals, organizations, and communities.”
Added October 7, 2007
Ubiquitous Computing Conference Series “Provides the premier forum in which to present research results in all areas relating to the design, implementation, application and evaluation of ubiquitous computing technologies, bringing together leading researchers from a variety of disciplines and geographical areas who are exploring the frontiers of computing as it moves beyond the desktop and becomes increasingly interwoven into the fabrics of our lives.”
Added December 31, 2007
User Interface Conference “User Interface Engineering's Jared M. Spool and his team of usability researchers created User Interface 12 for designers, information architects, and usability professionals who need to tackle their biggest design challenges.”
Added October 26, 2007
Webstock “Truckloads of design, development, user experience, web standards, content, community, innovation & inspiration.”
Added December 28, 2007
World Usability Day “Created to help everyone know more about the ways to help create a better user experience of our world. Promotes the value of usability engineering, user-centered design,and every user's responsibility to ask for things that work better.”
Added October 22, 2005
News
UsabilityNews.com “Bringing you all the latest within the field of usability.”
Added February 9, 2003
Organizations
American Society for Information Science and Technology “ASIST has been the society for information professionals leading the search for new and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to information.”
Added August 24, 2001
Association for Computing Machinery—Special Interest Group Human Computer Interaction “ACM SIGCHI brings together people working on the design, evaluation, implementation, and study of interactive computing systems for human use; provides an international, interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas about the field of human-computer interaction (HCI).”
Added August 24, 2001
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society “HFES's mission is to promote the discovery and exchange of knowledge concerning the characteristics of human beings that are applicable to the design of systems and devices of all kinds.”
Added August 24, 2001
International Federation for Information Processing “IFIP's mission is to be the leading, truly international, apolitical organization which encourages and assists in the development, exploitation and application of Information Technology for the benefit of all people.”
Added May 29, 2002
The Internet Technical Group “ITG will create a community for professionals from industry, academia and government organizations who share a common interest in Internet technologies and related behavioral phenomena.”
Added May 29, 2002
The Web Standards Project “The WSP is a coalition of web developers and users. Our mission is to stop the fragmentation of the web, by persuading browser makers that standards are in everyone's best interest. Together we can make the web accessible to all.”
Added July 10, 2001
Usability Professionals’ Association “UPA was formed provide a network and opportunities through which usability professionals can communicate and share information about skills and skill development, methodology used and/or proposed in the profession, tools, technology, and organizational issues. ...”
Added May 29, 2002
Practice
AgencyTool Web Design Dashboard “The definitive resource list for designing, developing, marketing & maintaining websites.”
Added November 1, 2008
eduStyle “Web design gallery dedicated to higher education websites and powered by higher education web design professionals.”
Added January 1, 2010
Email Standards Project “Is about working with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.”
Added June 1, 2009
Interaction-Design.org “HCI, Information Architecture, User Experience and more”
Added September 8, 2007
Konigi “Knowledge Sharing & Competitive Research for User Experience Design”
Added February 16, 2008
Nice Web Type “One place for web typography, leveraging our collective knowledge for the betterment of typographic style and practice.”
Added February 2, 2008
No Ideas But In Things “A library of controls, animations, layouts, and displays that might be a source of inspiration for interaction designers. Dan Saffer is the curator.”
Added September 30, 2007
NotForPaper “Posts and observations on some of the most exciting design work for screen. Work best realized away from a printed surface.”
Added February 1, 2009
Typesites “A weekly showcase of websites with interesting typographic design.”
Added June 1, 2008
Typetester “An online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer's life easier.”
Added February 1, 2009
TYPOTOPO “This site represents the space where typography and topography overlap: explorations of type in virtual environments, experiments in mapping, and innovations in textual display.”
Added January 29, 2008
Usability.gov of the National Cancer Institute “This site is designed to provide current and accurate information on how to make health-related information Web sites and other user interfaces more usable, accessible, and useful.”
Added February 5, 2003
Usable Web “A guide to resources about Web usability, about making the Web easier to use.”
Added August 3, 2001
useit.com “[Web usability specialist] Jakob Nielsen's website.”
Web Designer’s Interviews “A resource on Web Design and Internet featuring interviews with professional web designers”
Added January 8, 2012
Web Page Design for Designers “It is aimed at people who are already involved with design and typography for conventional print and want to explore the possibilities of this new electronic medium.”
Added February 1, 2002
Publications
Added February 2, 2008
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Added May 31, 2002
INSPIRE by the Adobe Experience Design Team
Added January 1, 2009
Added August 24, 2002
Scene 360, the online film and arts magazine
Added February 1, 2008
Added June 9, 2007
Added May 31, 2002
Usability Interface of the STC
Added May 31, 2002
Added May 31, 2002
Added July 1, 2009
Designer’s Quest(ionnaire)
Seven questions focused on the hard-working design practitioner—whether independent or in-house.
Design Thought Leader
Blog dedicated to fielding compelling ideas in the practice and theory of design—whatever the discipline. Read more.
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