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Key resources for user interaction design
Key resources for user interaction design in the MLE infoKit

STC Usability Toolkit

http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/external-resources/STC

The STC is the Society for Technical Communication, the professional body for technical writers. Here they provide a great collection of templates for things like task-user matrices and other common HCI/UCD tasks

AskTog: First Principles

http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/external-resources/AskTog

One of the heavyweights of interface design, Bruce Tognazzini (formerly of the Apple HCI labs) has produced this excellent primer on interface design principles.

Usability templates

http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/external-resources/usability

This is a handy set of templates and stencils of use in user-centred design.

UseIt

http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/external-resources/UseIt

No mention of user interface design would be complete without pointing to Jakob Nielsen’s website. A great many interesting articles here on many design issues.


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