Re: Design of GUI/Web Application Interfaces -- UIE's Web Si

[Joy Zigo <Joy -dot- Zigo -at- HARPERCOLLINS -dot- COM>]

Eric--

Thanks for your reply and suggestion. I've been visiting UIE's site and just
yesterday convinced the powers that be to buy Jared Spool's new book (at a
special rate that expires on *7/15*, by the way). Now I'm lobbying to get sent
to UIE's course in Usability for Documentation Specialists.

A couple of other TECHWR-LERs sent suggestions (e.g., Melanie Nelson sited/cited
"www.monsterweb.com" and its mailing list on webdesign). I will post a summary
to the list in a week or so.

Thank you also for TECHWR-L! It's a wonderful resource.

Best regards
--Joy
..........................
joy -dot- zigo -at- harpercollins -dot- com

Speaking strictly for myself, not for HarperCollins

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Subject:    Design of GUI/Web Application Interfaces  -- UIE's Web Site

Author: "Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com>
Date:       7/10/97 3:04 PM


Gang,

If you're doing any kind of Web/Internet/intranet design,
I'd strongly recommend taking a long look at the
Web Site Usability Report from UIE (Jared Spool of UIE
is a TECHWR-L regular). It's a good quick read, except
for the double-takes at some of the completely counterintuitive
findings. Even with the traditional Your Mileage
May Vary factor of most relatively narrow empirical
studies, this one indicates that a lot of us are doing
a lot wrong.

No connection with UIE--just find the results more
than a little useful.

Info about them follows.

Anyone else have any usability data about Web sites
you'd care to share?

Eric


User Interface Engineering
http://www.uie.com
(508) 975-4343 or (800) 588-9855.


At 01:30 PM 7/9/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear TechWr-lers--
>
>I'm interested in joining a forum where writers, graphic designers and
>programmers discuss design and usability approachess.
>
>Does anyone know of such a listserv?
>
>TIA and best regards--Joy
>..........................
>joy -dot- zigo -at- harpercollins -dot- com
>
>Speaking strictly for myself, not for HarperCollins
>
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