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• User Interface Evaluation Assignments
  • Eval 1a : Automated checkout
  • Eval 1b : Cell phone
  • Eval 2a : TV Guide
  • Eval 2b : GMU SIS
  • Eval 3a : Drawing tool
  • Eval 3b : Music player
  • Eval 4a : Email
  • Eval 4b : Travel site
  • Eval 5a : Web application
  • Eval 5b : Web application
  
  
• Some Useful Handouts
  
  • Etiquette for Sending Email
  • Advice about Professors
  • Advice about Homework
  • VI Made Less Difficult
  • VI Quick Reference (html) (PDF)
  • VIM: Vi IMproved
  • VIM: Reference Guide
  • AM and PM
  
  
• Some Useful Web Sites
  
  • Under Construction signs on websites
  • Jakob Nielsen's update to his "Top Ten Mistakes" article
  • The Bobby Site: Identify barriers to access by individuals with disabilities
  • Some very clearly explained bad user interface designs
  • "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information", George Miller.
  • Techniques & Tools for Using Color in Computer Interface Design", Peggy Wright, Diane Mosser-Wooley, and Bruce Wooley.
  • "Physiological Principles for the Effective Use of Color" (local mirror), G. Murch. Original
  • "Web-Site Design: The Art Of E-Biz", Beth Bacheldor.
  • An Interview with Alan Cooper, the author of "About Face"
  • vi: The Ubiquitous Editor
  • vi Lovers Home Page
  
  
• WWW Information
  
  • A nice history of the web, including the original proposal from Berners-Lee and the first posting about Mosaic from Andreeson.
  • Xenu's Link Sleuth - finds broken links. (Thanks to Van Vu)
  • As We May Think, by Vannevar Bush.
  • CGI scripts on the ITE server
  • George Mason MasonLink web resources
  • Snapshot of a Usability Warrior (Keith Inston)
  • Ten Web-Site Design Tips
  • Usable Web: Guide to Web usability resources
  • U. Maryland's Guide to Usability for Software Engineers
  • Composing Good html
  • Seven Ways To Make Me Leave Your Homepage
  • HyperContent, HyperJunk - Hypertext theory (Jorn Baryer)
  • Web Page Counter
  • XML Recommendation: Extensible Markup Language
  • The Webzine for Interaction Designers

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