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Learning from Sites that Don't Work

• Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design by Jakob Nielsen. Part of Nielsen's Useable.com site, a collection of articles by this now famous advocate of simplicity.
• Ten New Mistakes in Web Design by the same guy.
• Web Pages that Suck, and site devoted to teaching by showing what not to do. Notice the use of color and frames on this page.

Learning from Sites that Do Work

• Ten Good Deeds in Web Design by Jakob Nielsen
• Tomalak's Realm, a site devoted to current web writings. Note the scanability of the text and the effective synopses of articles.
• Ask Tog, Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini's monthly column about computer design and (often) the World Wide Web.

Content

• How Users Read on the Web by Jakob Nielsen. An excellence primer to writing for web readers.
• World Wide Web Usability, a special issue of the International Journal of Human Computer Studies
• HyperText Now, a site devoted to articles about writing and reading in the Web medium.

Sites to Visit

• A List Apart, which is a collection of articles about all facets of Web Design.
• The Usable Web, a collection of links devoted to the subject of Web Usability
. It's no longer being supported, but even its "stale" links are worth exploring.

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