Planning and Design Links

Usability and user experience

• Jared Spool, founder of User Interface Engineering; check out their podcasts or articles.
• Gerry McGovern is changing the way people think about the web with his emphasis on Customer Carewords and task measurement. It's no longer just about content: it’s about transaction (what we do when we get to a website).
• The most widely recognized book in usability: Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
• Usability.gov
• Usable Web: Links about web usability
• useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's site
• Make it useful

Design and Information Architecture (IA)

• Future of Web Design: an event that takes place a couple of times a year in various places.
  
• Jeffrey Zeldman is the author of a book we recommend called Designing With Web Standards. Another one is Taking Your Talent to the Web, for designers who want to make the jump from print to web.
• A List Apart that deals with all things web.
• Smashing Magazine from Germany has interesting design ideas.
• Digital Web Magazine, is now defunct. Its 500 articles, however, have been archived.
• Adaptive Path has some good ideas.
• Boxes and Arrows: IA peer-written journal

Accessibility

• SitePoint article: Do-it-yourself Accessibility
• Web AIM
• ITS MnSCU Webmasters Access site
• Adobe Accessiblity site
• Web Accessibility Initiative Tools list.

Other

• New York Public Library Style Guide (XHTML foundation)
• Yale Web Style Manual
• Cornell University's Structuring your website page
• Managing Web Resources for Persistent Access
• MSU web Navigation Guidelines page