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• Global organisations supporting usability
• Local groups supporting usability
• Usability forum for organisations interested in usability
• Join UsabilityNet: contribute to the web site or run a local group

Tools and Methods

• Usability methods
  • Table of recommended methods
    • Planning and feasibility overview
    • Requirements overview
    • Design overview
    • Implementation overview
    • Tesing and measurement overview
    • Post release overview
  • List of methods
• Guidelines
  • Design guideline resources
  • Design guidelines for the web
• Reference material
• International standards for HCI and usability 
• Established questionnaires used to measure the user's perception of usability
• Report Formats - how to write up a usability evaluation
• Context of Use analysis - templates and information about this technique
• Content analysis - a method for summarising user comments
• Sample size - how many users are required to make statistically reliable conclusions?

Usability Practitioner

• Discussion lists
• Annual conferences
• Booklist links
• Journals and magazines
• Professional accreditation initiative
• Courses
  • University courses
  • Commercial courses
  • Distance learning

Usability for Managers

• Commercial advantages
  • Quotes
  • Business case for usability
  • Business value of enhancing your user's experience
  • Cost justifying usability
  • Calculate the benefits of usability - for your business
• Usability resources
  • Consultancy list: individuals and organisations providing usability consultancy
  • Job descriptions of usability competencies required during development
  • Other resources can be found in other parts of this site
• Manager forum
  • FAQs
  • Ask the experts
  • Discussion list for managers
• Basics of usability
  • Overview of usability and the user centred design process
  • How to promote usability in an organisation
  • Design principles to support user centred design
  • Top ten mistakes in web design
  • What is usability: how is usability defined?
  • International standards for usability
  • Planning user-centred design: enforcing UCD during development
  • Usability in procurement: incorporating usability requirements in the procurement process

EU Project Support

• Get support for an EU project
• Usability in the IST programme
• Usability in EU projects

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