A variety of tools to help do HCI-related work
better or easier.
Software
List
of User Interface Software Tools by Brad Myers (no longer
maintained).
- Easy-Hub, a
site dedicated to the empirical evaluation of adaptive
systems.
- Gary Perlman's Web-Based
User Interface Evaluation with Questionnaires provides a
tool to easily construct online questionnaires based on standard
evaluation forms (QUIS, PUEU, CSUQ, and PUTQ).
- Greek This! lets you
"greek" the text of a web page and lets you focus on the layout
and check that the visual structure gives users the right kind
of clues.
- ConcurTaskTrees
is a notation for task model specifications.
- CDTools is the
first application designed to support customer-centered
design. Its integrated module suite makes it easy to analyze,
maintain, and share customer field data.
- Euterpe
is a Task Analysis tool based on an ontology for describing
the task world in a structured way.
- Intranet
Satisfaction Questionnaire, a scientifically
well-founded and validated measuring instrument in the form
of an online-questionnaire in order to be able to
systematically acquire user satisfaction on the Intranet in
the future.
- KLM
Calculator, a calculator for the Keystroke Level Model
proposed by Card, Moran and Newell.
- DENIM and
SILK Informal tools for early stage web
site and UI design
- SUMI
The de facto industry standard evaluation
questionnaire for assessing quality of use of software by end
users.
- Vischeck colorblind vision
simulator
- SansGUI,
a Modeling and Simulation Environment for developing and
deploying scientific and engineering simulators without
writing any Graphical User Interface code.
- Universal
Usability Practice, principles and strategies for
practicioners designing universally usable sites.
- User-Centered
Design for Software Engineers: Techniques, Tools and
Applications, a tutorial for understanding and mastering
the user-centered process, tools and techniques.
- A Visual
Vocabulary for describing information architecture and
interaction design.
- Web
Accessibility Tools, a collection of information about
evaluation, repair, and transformation tools useful for making the
Web more accessible.
Usability
- Information & Design's Usability Resources
- Usability
Toolkit, a collection of forms, checklists and other
useful documents for conducting usability tests and user
interviews, collected by the STC Usability Special Interest
Group.
- The
Usability Methods Toolbox, a compilation of information about
many methods and techniques used in usability
evaluation.