“You have a Web server with static pages. Sally’s Sad Saab Shop gave you $200 to run a banner ad for a week. You want to be able to tell Sally ‘332 people clicked from my site to yours in that week.’ Sally may not have her own Web server and/or may not understand how to analyze the referer header log. You don’t want to sweat your way through all of Web Tools Review and learn how to run your own Relational Database Management System-backed Web site. You don’t want to spend the rest of your life backing up and maintaining the relational database. That’s where clickthrough.net comes in.”

“This web site contains descriptions of different user oriented methods. These descriptions are not meant to be exhaustive descriptions that you could use right after you have visited this web site. They are rather short summaries with references to more thorough descriptions of these methods. The purpose of this web-site is to encourage the usage of user oriented methods in both industry and research projects.”

“Usability, mehr als ein Keyword, aber auch nicht der heilige Gral für Qualität. Es liesse sich über (un)endlich viele Begriffe endlich viel sagen; letztendlich haben wir nun zum Thema Usability einen eigenen _Weblog eingerichtet, um den Anforderungen an Aktualität und direkter Kommunikation Rechnung zu tragen. Thematisch möchten wir damit den breiten Bogen spannen, der Fragestellungen des Interface- und Interaktionsdesigns den Anforderungen an Usability (die es herauszuarbeiten gilt) gegenüberzustellen.” Note: I don’t know what that says, but the weblog is in English!

Warning: Online PowerPoint presentation (short). “What we do is all about communication, right?”

“Usability, mehr als ein Keyword, aber auch nicht der heilige Gral für Qualität. Es liesse sich über (un)endlich viele Begriffe endlich viel sagen; letztendlich haben wir nun zum Thema Usability einen eigenen Weblog eingerichtet, um den Anforderungen an Aktualität und direkter Kommunikation Rechnung zu tragen. Thematisch möchten wir damit den breiten Bogen spannen, der Fragestellungen des Interface- und Interaktionsdesigns den Anforderungen an Usability (die es herauszuarbeiten gilt) gegenüberzustellen.” I don’t know what that says, but the weblog is in English!

“There are a variety of university-level computer-human interaction (CHI) programs. Although a few offer breath and diversity, many students graduate from universities that offer only one or two CHI courses. As such, most students have a limited background in the various CHI areas. This article offers a general overview in one area, graphical user interfaces (GUI). A GUI allows a computer user to move from application to application. A good GUI makes an application easy, practical, and efficient to use, and the marketplace success of today’s software programs depends on good GUI design. Consider the Macintosh and the IBM-PC. Computer users view Apple’s Macintosh computers as having the best GUI. Correspondingly, their positive view of the Macintosh system is almost double that of the Windows users. Correspondingly, brand loyalty among Macintosh users is almost 20% higher than that for Windows users.”