Usability Resources

• Articles on Usability
• Usability Websites
• Interface Guidelines

Articles on Usability

• Open source usability is a technical problem we can solve on our own (July 9, 2004)
• Linux in 2004 - Usability Needs A Facelift (June 3, 2004)
• What it Really Takes to Get Good Usability on a Product (April 2, 2004)
• Usability: A new vision for the free software movement (January 7, 2004)
• Linux vs. Windows: Choice vs. Usability (August 13, 2003)
• Interview with the KDE and GNOME UI/Usability Developers (March 10, 2003)
Usability Is Next to Profitability (December 4, 2002)
• Bringing KDE Closer to Joe User's Desktop (July 11, 2002)

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Usability Websites

• ACM SigCHI Bulletin
• HFI UI Design Newsletter
• IBM Ease of Use
• infodesign.com: Usability Toolkit
• Interface Hall of Shame
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox
• SAP Design Guild Design Tidbits
• SEG 3120 - User Interface Design and Implementation

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Interface Guidelines

• Apple Human Interface Guidelines
• GNOME Human Interface Guidelines 2.0
• KDE User Interface Guidelines
• Microsoft Usability

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