resource center: online resources

Edited by Dave Rogers

Other Great Resources

Adaptive Path offers outstanding bi-monthly essays on user experience by Peter Merholz, Jesse James Garrett, Jeffery Veen and others.

Nick Finck's Digital Web 'zine is for "professional web designers, web developers and information architects." Articles are always thoughtful, practical and occasionally provocative.

The Group for User Interface Research at UC Berkeley is doing cutting-edge work. It offers a variety of tools and publications including DENIM, sketching software for the early stages of Web design.

Microsoft Research. It may not always be evident, but the Giant from Redmond does outstanding research. The Research Areas index page is your best bet.

SIGCHI is the ACM's special interest group on computer-human interaction, bringing together "people working on the design, evaluation, implementation, and study of interactive computing systems for human use." Its CHI-WEB mailing list and archives are open to non-members.

The Cataloger's Learning Workshop of the Library of Congress is "a clearinghouse portal for cataloging and metadata training resources for information workers" and offers resources on metadata management.

The Human-Computer Interaction Bibliography boasts more than 29,000 records in its database—and includes links to other great resources.

The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Its popular Wayback Machine is a trip down memory lane - a vast searchable archive of ancient and not-so-ancient Web sites. Looking for a page that had a cool design but is no longer live? Look for it here!

The Market Research Portal will prove more helpful than you might imagine! Marketers have been trying to understand end-users (they call them "consumers") for much longer than Web professionals. This site is rich in resources from basic introductory articles to links for much more information.

Stanford's Web Credibility Project is an unequalled source for information about how and why people believe (or not believe) what they find on the Web. Lots of great stuff. It's under the umbrella of Stanford's Persuasive Technology Lab.