Helpful links

• Two of the textbooks I would like you to read this semester are available online

•  User Interface Design for Programmers (UIDP) by Joel Spolsky.   http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/fog0000000249.html. 

•  Task-Centered User Interface Design (TCUID) by Clayton Lewis and John Rieman.  http://hcibib.org/tcuid/

   

• Some websites containing examples of "Bad" design (thanks to Eric Roberts at Stanford who posted all or most of this to this SIGCSE mailing list)
  • http://www.uiwizards.com features a Web Blooper of the Month and has an archive of past Bloopers of the Month.
  • http://www.gui-bloopers.com has a More Bloopers page listing GUI bloopers found since that book was published.
  • http://www.web-bloopers.com has an Additional Web Bloopers section and also a Discussion Forum where readers submit their favorite blooper examples.
  • http://www.system-concepts.com/ also has a Blooper of the Month, but not restricted to web design.  This collection includes websites, software, consumer appliances, and public kiosks.
  • http://deyalexander.com/blooper/ has a collection of poor Web designs.
  • http://webbusiness.cio.com/archive/closer.html provides critical reviews of corporate websites.
  • http://www.37signals.com/dnf/ has a "Design Not Found" gallery that gives examples of websites that failed to plan for all error-contingencies.  It also has examples of sites that handle errors well.