Usability resources

Monash Web Workshops on usability

• Email newsletters: content, format and presentation guidelines
• Using a quality assurance process for your website

Introductory information

• Introduction to usability
• Usability basics
• Usability glossary

Usability newsletters and columns

• Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox:
  Fortnightly newsletter from the guru of usability
• Human Factors International e-Newsletter:
  Monthly article summarises recent research in usability
• New Thinking:
  Weekly newsletter with an emphasis on writing and content for the web
• Cooper Newsletter:
  Monthly newsletter on a wide range of usability topics
• Boxes and Arrows:
  A peer-written journal on topics in information architecture
• User Interface Engineering:
  Collection of articles on search, user behaviour, user research and more
• Usability News:
  UK-based service providing news, events and job in usability and human-computer interaction

Collections of links to usability resources

• Usable Web
• User Experience Design Collection
• Neilsen Norman Group usability reports (Monash only)

Other usability tools and resources

• Mailing lists on usability and user-centred design
• Human-computer interaction (HCI) bibliography
• Usability testing reading list
• Usability-related professional associations
• DENIM: a pen-based sketching and prototyping tool