Related websites
| Organization | Significance |
|---|---|
| St. Louis User Experience Conference (STLUX) | STLUX is an annual conference hosted by user experience professionals from St. Louis companies. All planning, coordination, and presentations are are done by local user experience practitioners. |
| World Usability Day | World Usability Day promotes the value of usability engineering, user-centered design, and every user's responsibility to ask for things that work better. |
| Society of Technical Communication (STC) | STC is the largest organization dedicated to technical communication. The STC organization as a whole has a long history of appreciation and support for user-centered practices. |
| St. Louis Web Developers and Web Designers | The St. Louis Web Developers and Designers Organization is an open, professional organization formed to facilitate communications between diverse professions involved in Internet/intranet design and development. |
| The EPSS InfoSite | A place full of ideas and information about designing and developing usable software systems that let people quickly and easily perform complex tasks with little or no external support or training - also known as Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS). |
| SIGCHI | Special Interest Group - Computer-Human Interaction. Part of ACM. GatewayCHI will shortly become an officiallocal SIGCHI chapter. |
| ACM | Association for Computing Machinery. Probably the oldest and largest computer society. |
| Usability Professionals Association (UPA) | As the name states, people that practice usability methods in their work. Similar to SIGCHI, with more emphasis on practical techniques, less on theory or computer technology. |
| UTEST | Offers good links to usability material on the Internet. Includes information about accessing the UTEST listserv, or email group distribution list, for usability professionals. |
| IBM HCI Works | IBM's Human-Computer Interaction Works web site offers explanations to the fundamentals of UI and HCI, as well as exhibits of some of the latest IBM interface technology, including 3D environment simulations. |
| IBM User-Centered Design | Provides an overview of the UCD practices, a tour of the IBM UCD Lab, and a description of the consulting services offered in User-Centered Design. You can also sign up here to participate in an IBM UCD study! |
| Cooper Associates | Alan Cooper has inspired or agitated a number of people with his views on software design, well-documented in his book, "About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design". Alan strongly espouses using paper for software design, despite being the "father" of Visual Basic, probably the most popular software prototyping tool! |
| Microsoft Usability Group | Lots of resources from the usability department of the largest software company in the world. |
| inContext | A primary mover in the field of Contextual Inquiry (CI). CI helps you to really know your end-users inside and out, which in turn assures that you build software or systems that will target customer needs well. |
| L.U.C.I.D. | A new movement formed "(T)o fight for software
usability... to humanize the design of software. In doing so we will
save industry billions of dollars, we will create new markets for computer
products and increase our well-being." Strong stuff, but on target. |