General Usability Resources

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Usability is just beginning to take hold in large organizations and lots of good information is available on the field in relation to the web.
Excellent References
- Donald A. Norman's, The Psychology of Everyday Things
- Hackos & Redish, User and Task Analysis for Interface Design
- Joseph Sullivan & Sherman Tyler's, Intelligent User Interfaces
- John Brown & Paul Duguid, The Social Life of Information
- Zelazny, Say It With Charts : The Executive's Guide to Visual Communication
- Gregory, Eye and Brain
- Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
- Deborah Mayhew, A Practitioner's Handbook for User Interface Design
- Jakob Nielsen & Marie Tahir, Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
- Jakob Nielsen, Designing Web Page Usabiliy
- Ed Tufte, Envisioning Information
- Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll, Diane D. Cerra (Editor), Usability Engineering
- Randolph G. Bias (Editor), Deborah J. Mayhew (Editor) , Cost-Justifying Usability
- Deborah J. Mayhew, The Usability Engineering Lifecycle: A Practitioner's
Handbook for User Interface Design
- Jeffrey Rubin, Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct
Effective Tests
- Ben Shneiderman, Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies
- Keley Braun (Editor), The Site Speaks for Itself
Organizations
- Usability Professionals' Association
- SIGCHI
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Society for Technical Communications (STC)
- American Society for Informantion Science & Technology
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