• Usability Matters
  An overview of the benefits of usable web sites and a brief discussion of techniques to create them.

• http://www.useit.com/
  Jakob Nielsen's website on usable information technology.

• usableweb.com
  By Keith Instone. Usable Web is a collection of links about human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web. Sections on e-commerce as well as general information.

• UsabilityFirst
  provides resources for issues related to usability in website and software design.

• Usability.gov
  gives an overview and answers frequently asked questions about usability. Sponsored by the National Cancer Institute.

• A Tutorial on Usability
  Created by Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo. A nice overview of evaluation methods for usability. Contributed by Anish Patel.

• Reading list, organized by lecture

  Lecture 1:

  JoAnn Hackoes and Janice Redish, User and Task Anaysis for Interface Design. Wiley, 1998.

  Jenny Preece, Human-Computer Interaction. Addison-Wesley, 1994.

  Lecture 2:

  Kristoffer Bohmann, User Performance Metrics. www.bohmann.dk/articles/user_performance_metrics.html

  Jeffrey Rubin, Handbook of Usability Testing., Wiley, 1994.

  Lecture 3:

  Mark Rettig, Prototyping for Tiny Fingers, Communications of the ACM Vol. 37 No. 4 April 1994, 21-27.

  Lecture 4: User Testing

  Lecture 5:

  Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety. Doubleday,1989.

  James Roberson Card Sorting, 2001

  Lecture 6:

  Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Graphics Press, 2nd edition (May 2001)

  Louis Rosenfeld & Peter Morville, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, O'Reilly. 2nd Ed. 2002

  Patrick Lynch & Sarah Horton, Web Style Guide, Yale University Press, 1999

  Lecture 7:

  Louis Rosenfeld & Peter Morville, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, O'Reilly. 2nd Ed. 2002

  Lecture 8:

  Typography from Patrick Lynch & Sarah Horton, Web Style Guide 2nd Ed., Yale University Press, 2001

  Test of Text Colors

  Multimedia from Patrick Lynch & Sarah Horton, Web Style Guide 2nd Ed., Yale University Press, 2001

  Jenny Chapman, www.animation Animation design for the world wide web, Watson-Guptill Publications, 2002
  

  Lecture 9:

  Handout 1

  Handout 2

  Lecture 10:

  Mary Czerwinski, Kevin Larson, Business: trends in future Web designs: what's next for the HCI professional? Interactions Volume 5 , Issue 6 Nov./Dec. 1998

  Lecture 10 Slides

   

Unrelated to HCI but interesting

Extreme Programming

The Evils of PowerPoint

Lecture 9 Backup