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  • Duckett, Jon: Accessible XHTML and CSS Web Sites Problem Design Solution
    Accessible XHTML and CSS Web Sites Problem Design Solution
    by Jon Duckett
    ISBN 0764583069 (0-7645-8306-9)
    Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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  • Mates, Barbara T.: Adaptive Technology for the Internet: Making Electronic Resources Accessible to All
    Adaptive Technology for the Internet: Making Electronic Resources Accessible to All
    by Barbara T. Mates, Doug Wakefield, Judith M. Dixon
    ISBN 0838907520 (0-8389-0752-0)
    Softcover, Amer Library Assn

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  • Ambient Findability
    by Peter Morville
    ISBN 0596007655 (0-596-00765-5)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to your questions? What does it mean to be "findable" in this day and age? This eye-opening new book examines the convergence of information and connectivity. Written by Peter Morville, author of the groundbreaking Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, the book defines our current age as a state of unlimited findability. In other words, anyone can find anything at any time. Complete navigability.

    Morville discusses the Internet, GIS, and other network technologies that are coming together to make unlimited findability possible. He explores how the melding of these innovations impacts society, since Web access is now a standard requirement for successful people and businesses. But before he does that, Morville looks back at the history of wayfinding and human evolution, suggesting that our fear of being lost has driven us to create maps, charts, and now, the mobile Internet.

    The book's central thesis is that information literacy, information architecture, and usability are all critical components of this new world order. Hand in hand with that is the contention that only by planning and designing the best possible software, devices, and Internet, will we be able to maintain this connectivity in the future. Morville's book is highlighted with full color illustrations and rich examples that bring his prose to life.

    Ambient Findability doesn't preach or pretend to know all the answers. Instead, it presents research, stories, and examples in support of its novel ideas. Are we truly at a critical point in our evolution where the quality of our digital networks will dictate how we behave as a species? Is findability indeed the primary key to a successful global marketplace in the 21st century and beyond. Peter Morville takes you on a thought-provoking tour of these memes and more -- ideas that will not only fascinate but will stir your creativity in practical ways that you can apply to your work immediately.

    ""A lively, enjoyable and informative tour of a topic that's only going to become more important.""

    --David Weinberger, Author, "Small Pieces Loosely Joined" and "The Cluetrain Manifesto"

    ""I envy the young scholar who finds this inventive book, by whatever strange means are necessary. The future isn't just unwritten--it's unsearched.""

    --Bruce Sterling, Writer, Futurist, and Co-Founder, The Electronic Frontier Foundation

    ""Search engine marketing is the hottest thing in Internet business, and deservedly so. Ambient Findability puts SEM into a broader context and provides deeper insights into human behavior. This book will help you grow your online business in a world where being found is not at all certain.""

    --Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., Author, "Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity"

    ""Information that's hard to find will remain information that's hardly found--from one of the fathers of the discipline of information architecture, and one of its most experienced practitioners, come penetrating observations on why findability is elusive and how the act of seeking changes us.""

    --Steve Papa, Founder and Chairman, Endeca

    ""Whether it's a fact or a figure, a person or a place, Peter Morville knows how to make it findable. Morville explores the possibilities of a world where everything can always be found--and the challenges in getting there--in this wide-ranging, thought-provoking book.""

    --Jesse James Garrett, Author, "The Elements of User Experience"

    ""It is easy to assume that current searching of the World Wide Web is the last word in finding and using information. Peter Morville shows us that search engines are just the beginning. Skillfully weaving together information science research with his own extensive experience, he develops for the reader a feeling for the near future when information is truly findable all around us. There are immense implications, and Morville's lively and humorous writing brings them home.""

    --Marcia J. Bates, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles

    ""I've always known that Peter Morville was smart. After reading Ambient Findability, I now know he's (as we say in Boston) wicked smart. This is a timely book that will have lasting effects on how we create our future."

    --Jared Spool, Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering

    ""In Ambient Findability, Peter Morville has put his mind and keyboard on the pulse of the electronic noosphere. With tangible examples and lively writing, he lays out the challenges and wonders of finding our way in cyberspace, and explains the mutually dependent evolution of our changing world and selves. This is a must read for everyone and a practical guide for designers.""

    --Gary Marchionini, Ph.D., University of North Carolina

    ""Find this book! Anyone interested in makinginformation easier to find, or understanding how finding and being found is changing, will find this thoroughly researched, engagingly written, literate, insightful and very, very cool book well worth their time. Myriad examples from rich and varied domains and a valuable idea on nearly every page. Fun to read, too!"

    --Joseph Janes, Ph.D., Founder, Internet Public Library

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  • King, Thomas W.: Assistive Technology: Essential Human Factors
    Assistive Technology: Essential Human Factors
    by Thomas W. King
    ISBN 0205273262 (0-205-27326-2)
    Softcover, Allyn & Bacon

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  • Phillips, Peter: Censored 1998: The News That Didn't Make the News-The Year's Top 25 Censored News Stories
    Censored 1998: The News That Didn't Make the News-The Year's Top 25 Censored News Stories
    by Peter Phillips
    ISBN 1888363649 (1-888363-64-9)
    Softcover, Seven Stories Pr

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  • Reynolds, Dennis J.: Citizen Rights and Access to Electronic Information: The 1991 LITA President's Program Presentations and Background Papers
    Citizen Rights and Access to Electronic Information: The 1991 LITA President's Program Presentations and Background Papers
    by Dennis J. Reynolds
    ISBN 0838976018 (0-8389-7601-8)
    Softcover, American Library Association

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  • Constructing Accessible Websites
    by Jim Thatcher, Sarah Swierenga, Shawn Lawton Henry, Mark D. Urban, Cynthia D. Waddell
    ISBN 1590591488 (1-59059-148-8)
    Softcover, Springer-Verlag New York Inc

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    Accessibility is about making websites that don't exclude people with visual, aural, or physical disabilities. Through real-world examples, this practical book will teach you how to create or retrofit accessible websites quickly and easily.

    This book is aimed toward web professionals creating accessible websites or updating existing sites to make them accessible. It's also useful for corporate, university, and government policy-makers involved in the development and maintenance of websites for their institutions.

    The thorough and practical accessibility techniques outlined in this book come from some of the best accessibility professionals in the business. The techniques are illustrated and accompanied by real-world examples from live sites, demonstrating that accessibility is not the enemy of great visual design.

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  • Cost-Justifying Usability: An Update for an Internet Age
    by Randolph G. Bias, Deborah J. Mayhew
    ISBN 0120958112 (0-12-095811-2)
    Softcover, Morgan Kaufmann Pub

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    You just know that an improvement of the user interface will reap rewards, but how do you justify the expense and the labor and the time-guarantee a robust ROI!-ahead of time? How do you decide how much of an investment should be funded? And what is the best way to sell usability to others?

    In this completely revised and new edition, Randolph G. Bias (University of Texas at Austin, with 25 years' experience as a usability practitioner and manager) and Deborah J. Mayhew (internationally recognized usability consultant and author of two other seminal books including The Usability Engineering Lifecycle) tackle these and many other problems. It has been updated to cover cost-justifying usability for Web sites and intranets, for the complex applications we have today, and for a host of products-offering techniques, examples, and cases that are unavailable elsewhere. No matter what type of product you build, whether or not you are a cost-benefit expert or a born salesperson, this book has the tools that will enable you to cost-justify the appropriate usability investment.

    ·Includes contributions by a host of experts involved in this work, including Aaron Marcus, Janice Rohn, Chauncey Wilson, Nigel Bevan, Dennis Wixon, Clare-Marie Karat, Susan Dray, Charles Mauro, and many others;
    ·Includes actionable ideas for every phase of the software development process;
    ·Includes case studies from inside a variety of companies;
    ·Includes ideas from "the other side of the table," software executives who hold the purse strings, who offer thoughts on which proposals for usability support they've funded, and which ones they've declined. [via]

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  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon
    ISBN 1400032717 (1-4000-3271-7)
    Softcover, Vintage Books

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    Mark Haddon's bitterly funny first novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Christopher John Francis Boone is a 15-year-old boy, mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behaviour of his elders and peers.

    Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbour's poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington's owner finds him cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night in jail, Christopher resolves--against the objection of his father and neighbours--to discover just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by Siobhan, a social worker at his school, to write a book about his investigations, and the result--quirkily illustrated, with each chapter given its own prime number--is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.

    Haddon's novel is a startling performance. This is the sort of book that could turn condescending, or exploitative, or overly sentimental, or grossly tasteless very easily, but Haddon navigates those dangers with a sureness of touch that is extremely rare among first-time novelists. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is original, clever, and genuinely moving: this one is a must-read. --Jack Illingworth [via]

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  • Defensive Design for the Web: How to Improve Error Messages, Help, Forms, and Other Crisis Points
    by 37 Signals, Jason Fried
    ISBN 073571410X (0-7357-1410-X)
    Softcover, New Riders Pub

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    Let's admit it: Things will go wrong online. No matter how carefully you design a site, no matter how much testing you do, customers still encounter problems. So how do you handle these inevitable breakdowns? With defensive design. In this book, the experts at 37signals (whose clients include Microsoft, Qwest, Monster.com, and Clear Channel) will show you how.

    Defensive design is like defensive driving brought to the Web. The same way drivers must always be on the lookout for slick roads, reckless drivers, and other dangerous scenarios, site builders must constantly search for trouble spots that cause visitors confusion and frustration. Good site defense can make or break the customer experience.

    In these pages, you'll see hundreds of real-world examples from companies like Amazon, Google, and Yahoo that show the right (and wrong) ways to get defensive. You'll learn 40 guidelines to prevent errors and rescue customers if a breakdown occurs. You'll also explore how to evaluate your own site's defensive design and improve it over the long term.

    This book is a must read for designers, programmers, copywriters, and any other site decision-makers who want to increase usability and customer satisfaction.

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  • Kaiser, Shirley: Deliver First Class Websites: 101 Essential Checklists
    Deliver First Class Websites: 101 Essential Checklists
    by Shirley Kaiser
    ISBN 0975841904 (0-9758419-0-4)
    Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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  • The Design of Sites: Patterns For Creating Winning Web Sites
    by Douglask Van Duyne, Jason I. Hong, James A. Landay
    ISBN 0131345559 (0-13-134555-9)
    Softcover, Prentice Hall Ptr

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    <>Praise for the second edition of The Design of Sites

     

    "In my worldwide IBM marketing role, I have the benefit of working with some of the finest international interactive agencies and internal Web teams. As I read The Design of Sites, [I see] the insight from years of professional advice has been put to paper. Nowhere have I seen such a practical, effective, and easy-to-use book to solve and avoid Internet design issues. I keep a copy of the book handy to remind me of the things I forgot and to gain fresh perspectives. It never fails to deliver."
    -John Cilio, marketing manager, IBM System x & z Storage Synergy


    "The Design of Sites artfully brings forward the original intent of Christopher Alexanders pattern language into the user experience design arena. It is a valuable and comprehensive reference."

    -George Hackman, Jr., senior director of User Experience for User Interface Guidelines, Patterns and Standards, Oracle Corporation


    "The Design of Sites is one of the best tools I have in my usability toolbox. [These] Web UI design patterns make it easy for me to show my clients how to get the most usability bang for their buck."

    -Claudia Alden Case, usability consultant and interaction designer, Alden Case Enterprises, Inc.


    "If only biology class had been like this. Lucid text, bulletproof content, and a comprehensive taxonomy thats just as much a source of inspiration as it is a production tool. This is a really, really good book. If you build Web sites, read it."

    -Marc Campbell, author of Web Design Garage


    Praise for the first edition of The Design of Sites


    "Stop reinventing the wheel every time you design a Web site! The Design of Sites helps you rethink your Web sites in terms of genres and patterns. Once you have identified the patterns and applied the best practices for those patterns as outlined in this book, you will reduce your design effort by 50 percent . . . at least!"

    -Pawan R. Vora, vice president, Information Architecture, Seurat Company


    "The content [in The Design of Sites] could make a novice into a seasoned professional over a weekend. Many companies pay a fortune for the information contained in the books primary chapters."

    -John Cilio, marketing manager, IBM System x & z Storage Synergy


    "This book has many handy checklists for what you should and should not do in creating a conventional Web site. Just following the authors suggestions would put your site in the top few percent for readability and usability."

    -Jef Raskin, creator of the Macintosh computer and author of The Humane Interface


    "Now that The Design of Sites has made its appearance, we won't have to put up with those poorly designed Web pages. These authors have captured patterns from successful Web designers, including their own experience in consulting and teaching, and have made this information accessible to all of us. The book is readable yet full of worthwhile information--a valuable addition to any Web designers bookshelf."

    -Linda Rising, independent consultant and author of The Patterns Handbook, The Pattern Almanac 2000, and Design Patterns in Communications Software


    "[The Design of Sites] bridges the gap from theory to practice and makes it possible for people in the Web-design space to use user-centered design principles in their workwithout having to undertake extensive training."

    -Maya Venkatraman, human interface engineer, Sun Microsystems


    "The coverage [in The Design of Sites] is excellent--issues go beyond the traditional design the best page focus and do a good job of showing the context. I havent seen any other book with the kind of breadth this has."

    -Terry Winograd, professor of computer science, Stanford University, and editor of Bringing Design to Software


    "With this book as a reference, you can benefit from what companies like Yahoo! have learned and apply it to your site, even if you dont have a design and research team similarly sized and staffed."

    From the foreword by Irene Au, director of User Experience, Google; former vice president of User Experience and Design, Yahoo!


    The Design of Sites , Second Edition, is the definitive reference for the principles, patterns, methodologies, and best practices underlying exceptional Web design. If you are involved in the creation of dynamic Web sites, this book will give you all the necessary tools and techniques to create effortless end-user Web experiences, improve customer satisfaction, and achieve a balanced approach to Web design.


    After a comprehensive tutorial covering the foundations of good Web site design, you will move on to discover the thirteen major Web design pattern groups. These patterns solve recurring design problems and help design teams avoid reinventing the wheel. Patterns range from creating a solid navigation framework and the all-important home page, to instilling trust and building credibility with your customers and improving site performance through better design.


    The book features

    • Coverage of AJAX, the Mobile Web, and online communities
    • Seventeen new design patterns to add to the original ninety, including the new blog site type
    • More than twenty significantly updated patterns
    • 450 four-color screen shots and diagrams, including more than 150 new images
    • Key site elements, including site maps, style sheets, dynamic elements, and customer profiles
    • Clear, visual organization with color-coded sections for easy reference
    • A balanced approach to Web design that takes both customer and business needs into account
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  • Van Duyne, Douglask: The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience
    The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience
    by Douglask Van Duyne, Jason I. Hong, James A. Landay
    ISBN 020172149X (0-201-72149-X)
    Softcover, Addison-Wesley

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  • Designing Web Usability
    by Jakob Nielsen
    ISBN 156205810X (1-56205-810-X)
    Softcover, Peachpit Pr

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    Creating Web sites is easy. Creating sites that truly meet the needs and expectations of the wide range of online users is quite another story. In Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, renowned Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen shares his insightful thoughts on the subject. Packed with annotated examples of actual Web sites, this book sets out many of the design precepts all Web developers should follow.

    This guide segments discussions of Web usability into page, content, site, and intranet design. This breakdown skillfully isolates for the reader many subtly different challenges that are often mixed together in other discussions. For example, Nielsen addresses the requirements of viewing pages on varying monitor sizes separately from writing concise text for "scanability." Along the way, the author pulls no punches with his opinions, using phrases like "frames: just say no" to immediately make his feelings known. Fortunately, his advise is some of the best you'll find.

    One of the unique aspects of this title is the use of actual statistics to buttress the author's opinions on various techniques and technologies. He includes survey results on sizes of screens, types of queries submitted to search portals, response times by connection type and more. This book is intended as the first of two volumes--focusing on the "what." The author promises a follow-up title that will show the "hows" and, based on this installation, we can't wait. --Stephen W. Plain

    Topics covered: Cross-platform design, response time considerations, writing for the Web, multimedia implementation, navigation strategies, search boxes, corporate intranet design, accessibility for disabled users, international considerations, and future predictions. [via]

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  • Designing With Web Standards
    by Jeffrey Zeldman
    ISBN 0321385551 (0-321-38555-1)
    Softcover, Peachpit Pr

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    You code. And code. And code. You build only to rebuild. You focus on making your site compatible with almost every browser or wireless device ever put out there. Then along comes a new device or a new browser, and you start all over again.

    You can get off the merry-go-round.

    It's time to stop living in the past and get away from the days of spaghetti code, insanely nested table layouts, tags, and other redundancies that double and triple the bandwidth of even the simplest sites. Instead, it's time for forward compatibility.

    Isn't it high time you started designing with web standards?

    Standards aren't about leaving users behind or adhering to inflexible rules. Standards are about building sophisticated, beautiful sites that will work as well tomorrow as they do today. You can't afford to design tomorrow's sites with yesterday's piecemeal methods.

    Jeffrey teaches you to:
    • Slash design, development, and quality assurance costs (or do great work in spite of constrained budgets)
    • Deliver superb design and sophisticated functionality without worrying about browser incompatibilities
    • Set up your site to work as well five years from now as it does today
    • Redesign in hours instead of days or weeks
    • Welcome new visitors and make your content more visible to search engines
    • Stay on the right side of accessibility laws and guidelines
    • Support wireless and PDA users without the hassle and expense of multiple versions
    • Improve user experience with faster load times and fewer compatibility headaches
    • Separate presentation from structure and behavior, facilitating advanced publishing workflows

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  • Krug, Steve: Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach To The Web Usability
    Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
    by Steve Krug
    ISBN 0321344758 (0-321-34475-8)
    Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub

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    Usability design is one of the most important though often least attractive tasks for a Web developer. In Don't Make Me Think, author Steve Krug lightens up the subject with good humour and excellent to-the-point examples.

    The title of the book is its chief personal design premise. All of the tips, techniques and examples presented within it revolve around users being able to surf merrily through a well-designed site with minimal cognitive strain. Readers will quickly come to agree with many of the book's assumptions. For example, "We don't read pages--we scan them" and, "We don't figure out how things work--we muddle through". Getting to grips with such hard facts sets the stage for Web design that then produces top-notch sites.

    Using an attractive mix of full-colour screen shots, cute cartoons and diagrams, and informative sidebars, the book keeps your attention and drives home some crucial points. Much of the content is devoted to proper use of conventions and content layout, and the "before and after" examples are superb. Topics such as the wise use of rollovers and usability testing are covered using a consistently practical approach.

    This is the type of book you can blow through in a couple evenings. But despite its conciseness, it will give you an expert's ability to judge Web design. You'll never form a first impression of a site in the same way again. --Stephen W Plain [via]

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  • Disabled Living Foundation: Handicapped at Home
    Handicapped at Home
    by Disabled Living Foundation, Design Council, Sydney Foott
    ISBN 0850720613 (0-85072-061-3)
    Softcover, Design Council [for] the Disabled Living Foundation

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  • Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web
    by Christina Wodtke
    ISBN 0735712506 (0-7357-1250-6)
    Softcover, New Riders Pub

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    All web sites have an architecture, whether you design one or not-just as every building has an architecture, from the lowly shanty by the railroad track to Chicago¿s tallest skyscraper. Unfortunately, most web sites are shanties, not skyscrapers. Companies that hastily threw up a web site in the dot-com boom days were visited by building inspector Jakob Neilsen, who told them their site should be condemned. But now we are entering a time of rebuilding, and we¿ve got a chance to get it right.

    Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web introduces the core concepts of information architecture: organizing web site content so that it can be found, designing web site interaction so that it's pleasant to use, and creating an interface that is easy to understand. This book will help designers, project managers, programmers, and other information architecture practitioners avoid the costly mistakes of the past by teaching the skills of information architecture swiftly and clearly. Use this book and you will pass the usability inspection with flying colors!

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  • Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
    by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville
    ISBN 1600330150 (1-60033-015-0)
    Hardcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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    Today's web sites have moved far beyond "brochureware." They are larger and more complex, have great strategic value to their sponsors, and their users are busier and less forgiving. Designers, information architects, and web site managers are required to juggle vast amounts of information, frequent changes, new technologies, and sometimes even multiple objectives, making some web sites look like a fast-growing but poorly planned city-roads everywhere, but impossible to navigate. Well-planned information architecture has never been as essential as it is now.

    Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition, shows you how to blend aesthetics and mechanics for distinctive, cohesive web sites that work. Most books on web development concentrate on either the graphics or the technical issues of a site. This book focuses on the framework that holds the two together.

    This edition contains more than 75% new material. You'll find updated chapters on organization, labeling, navigation, and searching; and a new chapter on thesauri, controlled vocabularies and metadata will help you understand the interconnectedness of these systems. The authors have expanded the methodology chapters to include a more interdisciplinary collection of tools and techniques. They've also complemented the top-down strategies of the first edition with bottom-up approaches that enable distributed, emergent solutions.

    A whole new section addresses the opportunities and challenges of practicing information architecture, while another section discusses how that work impacts and is influenced by the broader organizational context. New case studies provide models for creating enterprise intranet portals and online communities. Finally, you'll find pointers to a wealth of essential information architecture resources, many of which did not exist a few years ago.

    By applying the principles outlined in this completely updated classic, you'll build web sites and intranets that are easier to navigate and appealing to your users, as well as scalable and simple to maintain. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition is a treasure trove of ideas and practical advice for anyone involved in building or maintaining a large, complex web site or intranet.

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  • Information Architecture for the World Wide Web : Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
    by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Linda Mui
    ISBN 1565922824 (1-56592-282-4)
    Softcover, O'Reilly Media, Incorporated

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    In Chapter 6 of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, the authors discuss the details of good search-engine design. In a bitingly humorous segment, they analyze a Web site's search-page results: "Let's say you're interested in knowing what the New Jersey sales tax is.... So you go to the State of New Jersey web site and search on sales tax. The 20 results are scored at either 84% or 82% relevant. Why does each document receive only one of two scores?... And what the heck makes a document 2% more relevant than another?"

    With a swift and convincing stroke, the authors of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web tear down many entrenched ideas about Web design. Flashy animations are cool, they agree, as long as they don't aggravate the viewer. Nifty clickable icons are nice, but are their meanings universal? Is the search engine providing results that are useful and relevant? This book acts as a mirror and with careful questioning causes the reader to think through all the elements and decisions required for well-crafted Web design. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]

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  • Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site Usable for Everyone
    by John M. Slatin, Sharron Rush
    ISBN 0201774224 (0-201-77422-4)
    Softcover, Addison-Wesley

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    Fifty-five million Americans live with a disability. This number is likely to increase as the population ages. The Web can be an unprecedented means of providing knowledge and economic power to people with disabilities. Because it is critically important to our society that everyone has the means to be included as producers and consumers in the information marketplace, the federal government's Access Board has issued standards for Web Accessibility, commonly referred to as Section 508. There is still a great deal of ignorance, misunderstanding, and confusion among internet professionals as to how to achieve accessibility to those with disabilities. This book will clarify and provide solutions to these problems. [via]

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  • Canada: The Path to Healing: Report of the National Round Table on Aboriginal Health and Social Issues
    The Path to Healing: Report of the National Round Table on Aboriginal Health and Social Issues
    by Canada
    ISBN 0660151731 (0-660-15173-1)
    Hardcover, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples

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  • Prioritizing Web Usability
    by Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger
    ISBN 0321350316 (0-321-35031-6)
    Softcover, New Riders Pub

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    In 2000, Jakob Nielsen, the worlds leading expert on Web usability, published a book that changed how people think about the WebDesigning Web Usability (New Riders). Many applauded. A few jeered. But everyone listened. The best-selling usability guru is back and has revisited his classic guide, joined forces with Web usability consultant Hoa Loranger, and created an updated companion book that covers the essential changes to the Web and usability today. Prioritizing Web Usability is the guide for anyone who wants to take their Web site(s) to next level and make usability a priority! Through the authors wisdom, experience, and hundreds of real-world user tests and contemporary Web site critiques, youll learn about site design, user experience and usability testing, navigation and search capabilities, old guidelines and prioritizing usability issues, page design and layout, content design, and more!

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  • Universal Principles of Design
    by Jill Butler, William Lidwell, Kritina Holden
    ISBN 1592530079 (1-59253-007-9)
    Hardcover, Rockport Pub

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    Whether a marketing campaign or a museum exhibit, a video game or a complex control system, the design we see is the culmination of many concepts and practices brought together from a variety of disciplines. Because no one can be an expert on everything, designers have always had to scramble to find the information and know-how required to make a design workùuntil now.

    Universal Principles of Design is the first cross-disciplinary reference of design. Richly illustrated and easy to navigate, this book pairs clear explanations of the design concepts featured with visual examples of those concepts applied in practice. From the 80/20 rule to chunking, from baby-face bias to Ockham's razor, and from self-similarity to storytelling, 100 design concepts are defined and illustrated for readers to expand their knowledge.

    This landmark reference will become the standard for designers, engineers, architects, and students who seek to broaden and improve their design expertise.

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  • Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites That Work
    by Darren Gergle, Tom Brinck, Scott D. Wood
    ISBN 1558606580 (1-55860-658-0)
    Softcover, Morgan Kaufmann Pub

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    Every stage in the design of a new web site is an opportunity to meet or miss deadlines and budgetary goals. Every stage is an opportunity to boost or undercut the site's usability.


    This book tells you how to design usable web sites in a systematic process applicable to almost any business need. You get practical advice on managing the project and incorporating usability principles from the project's inception. This systematic usability process for web design has been developed by the authors and proven again and again in their own successful businesses.


    A beacon in a sea of web design titles, this book treats web site usability as a preeminent, practical, and realizable business goal, not a buzzword or abstraction. The book is written for web designers and web project managers seeking a balance between usability goals and business concerns.

    * Examines the entire spectrum of usability issues, including architecture, navigation, graphical presentation, and page structure.
    * Explains clearly the steps relevant to incorporating usability into every stage of the web development process, from requirements to tasks analysis, prototyping and mockups, to user testing, revision, and even postlaunch evaluations.
    * Includes forms, checklists, and practical techniques that you can easily incorporate into your own projects at http://www.mkp.com/uew/. [via]

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  • Paciello, Michael G.: Web Accessibility for People With Disabilities
    Web Accessibility for People With Disabilities
    by Michael G. Paciello
    ISBN 1929629087 (1-929629-08-7)
    Softcover, Cmp Books

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  • Web Accessibility: Web Standards And Regulatory Compliance
    by Mark Urban, Jim Thatcher, Bob Regan, Bruce Lawson, Shawn Lawton Henry, Cynthia D. Waddell, Michael R. Burks, Christian Heilemann, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Patrick H. Lauke, Richard Rutter
    ISBN 1590596382 (1-59059-638-2)
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    The power of the Web lies in the fact that anyone and everyone can access it, and this should also extend to users with disabilities. Accessibility is about making websites accessible to those with aural, visual, or physical disabilities, or rather, constructing websites that dont exclude these people from accessing the content or services provided.

    This isnt difficult to accomplish and doesnt require anything more than your normal tool setHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, or whatever else. All you need to do is use these tools in the right way, and bear in mind the guidelines that exist to help you keep your websites accessible and the laws that enforce web accessibility around the world.

    This book gives you all you need to know about web accessibility, whether you are a web designer or developer who wants your sites to be accessible, or a business manager who wants to learn the impact of web accessibility laws on your websites.

    After an overview of the accessibility law and guidelines, and a discussion about accessibility and its implementation in the enterprise, the book goes on to show how to implement accessible websites using a combination of concise references and easy-to-follow examples, covering:

    • Understanding assistive technologies
    • Creating accessible content using XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash, and PDFs
    • Testing against WCAG (including 2.0) and Section 508
    • Retrofitting inaccessible sites where necessary

    The book concludes with an in-depth analysis of accessibility law around the world. If youre concerned about the legal and moral implications of web accessibility, then this book is perfect for you. It is written by some of the worlds experts on accessibility, leaving you in good hands.

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