My Window to Express Design Thoughts: March 2008

Generally, I keep saving lots of links in my bookmarks. So many times, people new to Information Architecture / User Experience ask me to share the resources that I refer to.

I am writing this post for all new entrants to the discipline of UXD. All the best!

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The basic usability fixes could be done by downloading and reading http://usability.gov/pdfs/guidelines_book.pdf and some creativity.

30 Basic usability issues to be aware of:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/10/09/30-usability-issues-to-be-aware-of/

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Some Good Websites

http://www.useit.com (Jakob Nielsen...for what it's worth. Some good stuff, though)

http://www.uie.com (Jared Spool's User Interface Engineering)

http://www.jnd.org (Don Norman's "Just Noticeable Difference" site--great excerpts from his books and papers)

http://www.uxmatters.com/ (UX Matters online magazine)

http://research.microsoft.com/adapt/ (MS's adaptive systems approach)

http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm (the U.S. government's Section 508 page)

http://www.iainstitute.org/ (The Information Architecture Institute--esp. this page: http://www.iainstitute.org/en/learn/ )

http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/ (great blog about good and bad data visualization)

http://www.perceptualedge.com/library.php (articles by Stephen Few, who wrote "Information Dashboard Design," among other stuff)

UserXperience Blogs:

http://eleganthack.com/blog/ (Christina Wodtke, author of "Blueprints for Information Architecture")

http://blog.jjg.net/ (Jesse James Garrett, author of "The Elements of User Experience")

http://www.ok-cancel.com/ (the only UX-oriented comic strip I know of--hilarious!)

http://www.joelamantia.com/ (Keane's own Joe Lamantia's blog--very thoughtful!)

http://www.peterme.com/ (Peter Merholz, co-founder of Adaptive Path)

http://louisrosenfeld.com/home/ (Lou Rosenfeld, co-author of "Information Architecture for the World-wide Web" and now book publisher)

http://www.maadmob.net/donna/blog/ (Donna Mauer, IA extraordinaire in Australia)

Reading these blogs as well as subscribing to listservs from the IA Institute, IxDnet, and others is how I stay up to speed with what the "industry" is thinking.

Some More Blogs:

Jesse James Garret: http://blog.jjg.net/

Louis Rosenfeld: http://louisrosenfeld.com/home/

David Malouf: http://synapticburn.com/

Bill Scott: http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com/

Joshua Porter: http://bokardo.com/

Keith Instone: http://instone.org/

SIG-III: http://www.neasist.org/icisc/blog/

CapCHI: http://www.capchi.org/community/

Dan Brown: http://greenonions.com/

Some Newsletters:

http://www.uie.com/publications/