Webusability

Ideally, this website will provide you with ‘one-stop shopping’ as you seek after information and tools that will help you optimize the user interface. This includes providing the best books, most useful software tools, helpful user profile information, effective training, and access to the latest research from conference proceedings, journals, websites and blogs.

The primary audience for this site are website and web application designers and developers. These are the people that are expected to make the many tough decisions related to the creation of effective, efficient and enjoyable human-computer interfaces. It is expected that most usability decisions are made by this group of people, and that most websites and web applications are constructed without the benefit of usability professionals.

The secondary audience for this site are those people who specialize in optimizing the human-computer interface of websites and web applications. Many of these people, although not all, have university degrees related to user interface design. Others have gained valuable usability expertise by being involved in the design and development of a large number of successful sites. Usability professionals will benefit from this site by updating their knowledge when reading the new books, reviewing the newest research, and taking appropriate training courses. But the most significant impact will be to find, and effectively use, the appropriate software tools that are now available.

University professors and their students are the final audience for this site. The WebUsability website provides considerable up-to-date information, and an exhaustive list of usability software tools. Usability graduates, like trained practitioners in other research-based fields, are expected to be familiar with the current state-of-the-art, including all available tools. They should be able to select and effectively use the most appropriate tools as they are needed.