Resources
Usability salary survey - Results from worldwide user experience / usability salary surveys conducted in March/April 2004 and October 2002.
Understand your users - Learn about a range of methods and techniques for understanding your users including surveys, interviews, task analysis, focus groups and how to capture and document user requirements.
Design Guidelines & Patterns - Different heuristics and guidelines used within the industry and some design tools and techniques to use such as paper prototyping.
Information Architecture - Information architecture defined, tools and techniques for developing, documenting and testing your information architecture and articles showing why you really don't need those 3 level fly-out menus.
Evaluations - Find out more about heuristic evaluations and how to plan and conduct usability testing.
Usability Benefits - So you like the idea of user centred design and usability but need some ammunition to justify your expenditure. Check out how to write a business case for usability and how you can do usability for $200!
Accessibility - Do you really need to make your site accessible to all users? If you website is targeted at Australians then YES you do. Read Disability Discrimination Act Advisory Notes and find out more about the W3C Accessibility initiative, guidelines and checklists and how to make your site accessible.
Usability Forums - So you want to learn more? Join one or more of these mailing lists to keep up to date with best practice and share ideas with other usability practitioners.
Usability Sites - Our favourite sites which pretty much cover it all. Good to add to your favourites. You will find many more links in these sites as well as tools and methods.
Usability Books - Looking for some good usability reference books? Here are a few oldies but goodies that we particularly like.