resources
organizations
- Usability Professionals Association (UPA)
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Special Interest Group - Computer Human Interaction (SIG CHI)
- Chicago Chapter of SIG CHI (Chi-Squared)
- Usability & User Experience SIG of the Society for Technical Communication
usability
Usability generally refers to website design.
- useit.com - Website Usability
- Usability Research at Microsoft
- Usability.gov - National Cancer Institute
- Usability First
- Usable Web
- Usability News
- Flash Usability
human-computer interaction (hci)
HCI generally refers to software design.
- HCI Resource Network (HCIRN)
- HCI Bibliography
- HCI Resources on the Net
- University of Maryland HCI Lab
- HCI Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
- HCI Journal
human factors
Human Factors generally refers to hardware design.




