Talk:Web usability

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[edit] Suggestions for External Links

Well, a couple that spring to mind are:

I've added the above two in an HTML comment, so it only need be removed to have them displayed.

Lee Carré 06:36, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

If there's no objection within a few days, I'll uncomment them -- Lee Carré 03:30, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
In general, I think external links should generally be to specific articles, but this is just my interpretation of WP:EL. I'd rather just have an internal link to Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant) than an external to any of his articles. In my opinion, Jakob's articles are poorly researched and heavily promotional. The UIE articles are far worse in quality of research and amount of promotion. Given the huge amount of online material available, I don't think we need to be choosing links to low-quality information written as promotional pieces. --Ronz 04:16, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
An interesting point of view. However, I agree with your first point; my reasoning was to direct those people actually wanting to learn about usability (considering the lack of software & websites designed with usability in mind) to some useful information/articles, rather than just a describing what usability is.
If you know of more refined information/articles that would be great. As a "do it properly" standards-based web developer I'm always looking to improve my knowledge about such things. Perhaps it would be better to continue a discussion about good usability data/research etc. on my talk page -- Lee Carré 18:46, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
Great. No mention of Nielsen or his highly readable alertbox series in the whole article. Thanks a lot. Jidanni (talk) 20:23, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Master's dissertation by Kay McMahon (Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen (UK), 2005): "An exploration of the importance of website usability from a business perspective" is available online (PDF, 593KB) at http://www.flowtheory.com DrDaveHPP 11:46, 24 October 2007 (UTC)