Consultant In Residence 2000
Technology Training

Term 2 begins the technical training necessary for teams to move into the technical production phase of our project - the creation of the CDROM.

Team training is an integral part of the CIR2000 project. This page represents a jump point for recommended readings and organisational details requested by trainers for team members.

INTERFACE Design Training

The paper prepared and presented by Jan Williams and Gordon Joughin for this session is available for download.

Further reading

Alexander, E and Tate, M (1999) Web Wisdom : How to Evaluate and Create Information Quality on the Web, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey.

Lynch, J and Horton, S (1999) Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, Yale University Press, New Haven.
http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/

Spool, J et al (1999) Web Site Useability: A Designer's Guide, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco.

Useable Web - A collection of sites relating to good web design
http://www.usableweb.com/

IBM Web Guidelines
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/hci/guidelines/web/print.html

IBM Ease of Use Web Guidelines
http://www-3.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/Publish/572

User Interface Design Tips - For software in general
(not just the web - but most principles still apply)
http://www.ambysoft.com/userInterfaceDesign.html

The Web Software Design Audit - Checklist of design elements with tips
http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~ramam_m/au_fr.html

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - Guidelines for making web sites accessible to people with disabilities.
http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/

Web Pages That Suck - Learn by not doing!
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/home.html

How to make an annoying web page - Elements that make up an annoying web page.
http://www.users.nac.net/falken/annoying/main.html

Dr Tom's Meta-Data Primer - Explanation of Meta-Data
http://www.imsproject.org/drtommeta.html

Sucky to Savvy - Jeffrey M. Glover's guide to improving websites
http://jeffglover.com/ss.html

Alertbox - Jakob Nielsen's Column on Web Usability
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/

Regards,

Jan Williams and Gordon Joughin
(User Interface/Educational Designers, GFLS)