|
 The
ultimate portal for web design resources is at
webdesign-sites |
| Lots
of basic clip-art resources at 1clipart.com |
| Great
free Font's available from the catalog at
mediabuilder |
| Not
as friendly or as useful as mediabuilder but lots more fonts at
font freak |
| NetObjects
provide a whole lot more added value with their resources and design
advice site at efuse.com |
| Communication
Arts Magazine is on-line at commarts.com |
| The
website for the book Creating Killer Websites is a pretty
useful resource, even if its getting a little dated. You can find it
at killersites.com |
| Graphic
Design applied to the Web by Juddy Litt at ,About.com |
| Examples
of Bad Design for Web Sites is at web
pages that suck |
| Keith
Instone keeps a whole host of web design related links at Usable
Web. Hopefully Keith will get around to linking
UIDesign.net soon |
| The story of how the
Sun Microsystems website came to be the way it is, can be
found at,sun.com
|
Richard I. Anderson
(no relation) is another experienced design who talks a lot of
sense. His home page is at,
http://www.well.com/user/riander |
| Laura Arlov,
author of GUI for Dummies, runs a consultancy in Norway. She can be
contacted at http://www.wordfixers.no |
| Cameron Barrett
is the designer of many websites including Borders.com . He writes a
regular web log at Camworld |
Calum Benson is
another Scottish UI Designer. His home page shows a real flair for
visual presentation and design.
http://www.thistle.demon.co.uk |
| Peter Boersma
works out of holland. You can check out his site at
http://www.design.nl/ |
Alan Cooper is
best known for the book "About Face" and his involvement
with Visual Basic. Nowadays he runs his own consultancy company.
http://www.cooper.com |
Bill Fernandez
is a UI Designer with some interesting ideas. He has recently popped
up in comp.human-factors. His consultancy home page is at,
http://www.billfernandez.com |
Cameron Hayne
from Canada is an occasional reviewer at www.asktog.com. He also
turns up in comp.human-factors for time to time. Check out his home
page at,
http://www.crim.ca/~hayne/ |
Niall Murphy is
into embedded systems and UI Design. There are some articles at his
home page,
http://www.iol.ie/~nmurphy
|
Theo Mandelis
famous for his work with OS2. A bit of an OOUI advocate, I still
liked a great deal of his earlier work. His consultancy company is
in Texas and at
http://www.interface-design.net |
| Peter
Merholz is an ex-StudioArchetype Interaction Designer who now
works at ePinions. Like Cameron Barrett,, he publishes an almost
daily Web Log and occasional papers on Interaction Design at peterme.com. |
| Swing
expert Matt Robinson is at http://www.mattrobinson.com |
| Andrei
Sedelnikovhas an english language site inRussia. |
| David
Siegel's website is at http://www.dsiegel.com |
Bruce Tognazzini
is famous for his work at Apple. Check out his homepage. More than
just UI cookbooks!
http://www.asktog.com |
Looking for a consultant?
Check this out,
http://www.acm.org/sigchi/hci-sites |
| System
Architects & Gurus |
| Karl E. Wiegers,
Ph.D. is a software process and management consultant. His
consultancy is called Process
Impact |
David A. Ruble
is a Client/Server Systems Architect with an understanding of UI.
Check out his consultancy firm at,
http://www.ocgworld.com |
Jeff de Lucais
an ex-IBMer and my former boss. One of the most knowledgable people
on the construction of big software, Jeff was co-author of Java
Modeling. His consultancy business operates out of Melbourne,
Australia. You can find them at,
http://www.nebulon.com |
Jerry Weinberg
is one of the oldest authors in the business. He really understands
what it takes to build big software and make people work together.
His home page is at,
http://www.geraldmweinberg.com/ |
Ed Yourdon
insured immortality in the industry by managing to co-author two of
the key methodology books and get his name on Yourdon-DeMarco
diagrams and Coad-Yourdon OOA&D. In recent years he has been
obsessed with Y2K. You can find his home page at,
http://www.yourdon.com/ |
Tom De Marco is
the other half of Yourdon-DeMarco diagrams. His book Peopleware is
one of the definitive texts on organisation for software
development. You can find him and his colleagues at,
http://www.atlsysguild.com/
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| The
campaign to push standards in Web Design is being let by
The Web Standards Project |
| There aren't many
groups in the UK. One specialist firm is
Usability by
Design |
The User Interface
Hall of Shame seeks to improve basic usability of software by
pointing out some truly hilarious digressions from standards and
guidelines. Well worth bookmarking for some light relief.
http://www.iarchitect.com/shame.htm |
Jakob Nielsen
looks after the design of the Sun Microsystems web site. He is also
famous for a couple of books on Usability Engineering. He's a guy
whom I often can't agree with but his website is well worth visiting
from time to time. His bi-weekly Alert Box column is very popular.
http://www.useit.com |
Jared Spool is
active on the web. Always organising a conference or seminar.
Another Fred Brooks fan - so that can't be bad. You can subscribe to
his newsletter "Eye for Design" and find out more about
his company, User Interface Engineering at,
http://www.uie.com |
Human Factors
International like to play up just how much black magic is
involved in UI Design and Usability. Check it out at,
http://www.humanfactors.com |
Its unusual to find a
Human Factors consultancy in the UK. System Concepts seem to
be one of the few. Their home page is at,
http://www.system-concepts.com |
| The ACM have the SIG-CHI
list of linked sites at http://www.acm.org/sigchi/hci-sites/
|
Repetitive Strain
Injury is a subject which comes up often in corporate UI Design,
particularly for data entry applications. If like me, you don't have
the first idea about it. You will find this interesting,
ttp://www.rsi-center.com/ |
| Personally, I find the
Object Oriented UI movement rather a semi-religious collection of
mumbo-jumbo. Make your own mind up. Here are a few links. |
Mark van Harmelen
has his consultancy site at
http://www.cutsys.com/ooui/ |
| Luc Laforets has
been examining whether it is possible to develop a User Interface
automatically from an Object Model. His adventures are recorded at
his website, http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ml/luclaf/index.htm
|
| Analysis,
Modelling & UML |
Peter Coad's Object
International site contains a lot of material and free
download's of some modelling tools such as the White Board Edition
of his Together/J development environment for Java. If your into
Object Modelling then you shouldn't miss the Coad Letter - a monthly
update which adds to the work presented in his many books.
http://www.oi.com |
Martin Fowlerhas
done a great deal for the OO community. His book Analysis Patterns
was ground breaking work. Fowler's own home page is at
http://ourworld.compuserve.com |
Robert
Martin and Kent Beckcan be found at
http://www.objectmentor.com |
Cetus-Links is
the main resource of links on all topics OO related,
http://www.cetus-links.org/ |
| This collection of
humour about Object Oriented development made me laugh,
http://cis.gsu.edu/~shong/oojokes/
|
| Alistair Cockburn
has done much to promote Use Cases for more usable systems. He
coined the phrase Goal Oriented Use Cases. Check it out at his home
page http://members.aol.com/acockburn/ |
| The
home for the standards definition and the specifications for both
XML and HTML is at the World
Wide Web Consortium |
| Work
developing a Markup Language for User Interface which could
be used to completely decouple Model from View is discussed at UIML.org |
| A
good resource for HTML specification and details is at HTMLHelp |
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