Everything you could possible read about usability

Gary Perlman must not sleep much. He is responsible for the HCI Bibliography: Human-Computer Interaction / User Interface Usability a huge compendium of resources from publications to online columns to developer tools, and on and on.

The site claims over 36,000 publications in its listings and has been accessed over 1.5 million times since it was launched in 1998.

If you cannot find it here, it probably does not exist.

You do not need to read Norwegian to enjoy the Bad Usability Calendar 2007. Designed to be a constant reminder of why usability matters, the calendar uses a different, bad, design for each month of the year.

NetLife Research has been doing these calendars for three years. They ask for suggestions from the usability community each year, since who knows better what awful things designers have done. This year, they decided to add exaggerated AJAX use, navigation overload, and a topic map that will drop your jaws!

Each month violates a specific design heuristic, so the calendar is also educational for those who are not familiar with UI heuristics. You can download the calendar as a PDF file to share or print out and hang on your wall.

There is more than words to writing ALT text

Sarah Horton was a pioneer when, working at Yale University Medical Center, she co-penned the Web Style Guide. This guide to producing Web content was aimed at Yale employees, but was quickly grabbed up by Websters everywhere trying to figure out this new medium.

Now, Sarah has done the same service for accessibility in her book Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers.

She is also a blogger at InformIT's Web Design Guide blog. In this week's post, she talks about how and how not to use ALT text with images to improve accessibility.
Writing Alternate Text for Images

I suggest you subscribe to the feed for Sarah's blog and gain her wisdom.