Recommended Other Websites

Visit Tomalak's Realm daily and you will have an overview of everything good to read on the Web that day.

See the Usable Web site for the ultimate comprehensive collection of useful links. Also see Wilson's Web Marketing Info Center for many links related to business-enhancing design.

Home Page Spotlights

I don't write a regular weblog (no time), but I often spotlight sites or articles that are worth reading. Usually with commentary that ran on the useit.com home page for a few days.

Regular Columns

About.com (originally known under the more interesting name The Mining Company) has special sections with weekly columns and "finds" from across the Web. Includes: Web design, online advertising (I don't believe Web ads work but they are interesting to read about), graphic design, the "Internet industry," and HTML/XML.

Some Good Sites

I have given up posting a full list of good sites. Instead, please see the directory sites mentioned above since they are being maintained by people who focus on that job. Here are a few sites I like.

"Web pages that suck" is a series of critiques of poor Web design. The examples are wonderful(ly bad) and I find myself in agreement with the author's analysis about 95 percent of the time. Probably the highest scoring other Web site in terms of agreeing with me. (This site has proven so popular that an extended version has been published on dead trees.)

The "Bad Designs" site presents many good design lessons illustrated with everyday things. The Interface Hall of Shame contains good analyses of many poorly chosen GUI elements.

Another good collection of bad designs is "Design Not Found". This one focuses on websites and their lack of support for edge cases in the interaction (e.g., how to handle error states).

Microsoft

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