The Good Stuff http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com We've searched, read, linked and described The Good Stuff so you don't have to. We're interested in science, beauty, art, literature, language, gender, history, food, wine, music, the Web, the Mac, and travel. posterous.com Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:38:05 -0800 Usability.gov http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/usabilitygov http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/usabilitygov http://usability.gov/

Usability.gov is a one-stop source for government web designers to learn how to make websites more usable, useful, and accessible. The site addresses a broad range of factors that go into web design and development. The site will help you to:

* Plan and design usable sites by collecting data on what users need

* Develop prototypes

* Conduct usability tests and write up results

* Measure trends and demographics

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Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:04:06 -0800 Accessible Data Tables http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/resources/tables.cfm http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/resources/tables.cfm http://www.usability.com.au/resources/tables.cfm

Designing and using tables so that they are accessible

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Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:48:43 -0800 Patterns for Personal Web Sites http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/index.html%23contentpatterns http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/index.html%23contentpatterns http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/index.html#content...

Examples and analysis of why some personal Web sites work.

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Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:47:00 -0800 Ask Tog: First Principles of Interaction Design http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html

The following principles are fundamental to the design and implementation of effective interfaces, whether for traditional GUI environments or the web. Of late, many web applications have reflected a lack of understanding of many of these principles of interaction design, to their great detriment. Because an application or service appears on the web, the principles do not change. If anything, applying these principles become even more important.

Bruce Tognazzini from here.

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Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:45:00 -0800 Usability Resources http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/usabilityresources http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/usabilityresources

Scenarios, user-centered design and other basic principles explained here.

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