I wouldn’t have expected it, but the National Cancer Institute offers a great basic resource on Web usability, Usability.gov. It’s very straightforward and fairly non-geeky – even when it covers some necessary technical topics such as server log analysis.
I mention this resource because I think it’s pretty important that online content professionals understand at least the basics of usability issues. I’ve written on this before: “Usability and Content.”
(Thanks to my colleague, science writer Catherine Dold for bringing this resource to my attention!)
Via this post from Contentious Weblog, our attention is drawn to Usability.gov a resource on Web usability from the National Cancer Institute. It includes usability basics and methods for designing usable websites amongst other things….