: Andy King, author of Website Optimization: Speed, Search Engine & Conversion Rate Secrets posted Usability Study: Men Need Speed yesterday — citing a study by Southern Illinois University on how men and women use the web. The researchers found that both men’s and women’s top priority is ease of use, with web speed men’s [...]

The Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines (Guidelines) were developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in partnership with the U.S. General Services Administration. This new edition of the Guidelines updates the original set of 187 guidelines, and adds 22 new ones. Many of the guidelines were edited, and numerous new [...]

: User experience design can sometimes be a slippery term. With all the other often used terms that float around in its realm in the technology and web space: interaction design, information architecture, human computer interaction, human factors engineering, usability, and user interface design. People often end up asking “what is the difference between all [...]

: A great collection if IA resources from wireframe examples to new concepts in terms of sitemaps, user flows, sketches, etc. : http://wireframes.linowski.ca/

: Nobody likes filling out web forms, so a good form is one that can be completed quickly and easily. One feature that helps people do this, is the address finder that pre-populates the address fields using a postcode. If you do it well, adding an address finder will improve the user experience of your [...]

: Big, two-dimensional drop-down panels group navigation options to eliminate scrolling and use typography, icons, and tooltips to explain the user’s choices. : http://www.useit.com/alertbox/mega-dropdown-menus.html

: Userfly, a startup that launched about 3 months ago, is a new way to study user behavior on your site. The service lets you record your site’s users’ actions and then play them back in your own browser. You are able to see exactly what people are doing, which includes mouse clicks, keystrokes (except [...]

: The IxDA is a novel kind of “un-organization” and there is no cost for membership. IxDA relies on its passionate members to help serve the needs of the international Interaction Design community. With over 10,000 members worldwide and almost 70 local groups around the world, the IxDA network actively focuses on interaction design issues [...]

: Should social bookmarking widgets be Standardized?.. Some widgets are based on Iframes and some based on Dom manipulation! Article also provides a JavaScript function to generate some of the popular bookmarking widgets that looks kinda uniform.. : http://www.moretechtips.net/2009/03/standardizing-social-bookmarking.html

: A directory for usability minded people on twitter. Find new friends and add yourself. : http://justtweetit.com/usability/