25 Resources for Measuring Usability

Jeff Sauro • December 21, 2010

Books

1. Measuring the User Experience by Tom Tullis & Bill Albert
2. Beyond the Usability Lab by Bill Albert, Tom Tullis & Donna Tedesco
3. Practical Guide to Usability Testing by Joe Dumas & Ginny Redish
4. Usability Engineering by Jakob Nielsen
5. Practical Guide to Measuring Usability (also available electronically) by Jeff Sauro
6. Handbook of Usability Testing by Jeff Rubin & Dana Chisnell
7. Moderating Usability Tests by Joe Dumas & Beth Loring
8. Quantifying the User Experience: Practical Statistics for User Research by Jeff Sauro & Jim Lewis
   

   Chapters

9. Usability Testing Chapter by Jim Lewis[pdf] in The Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics, Third Edition Edited by Gavriel Salvendy
10. Usability Testing Chapter by Jakob Nielsen in The Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics, Second Edition Edited by Gavriel Salvendy
11. Usability Testing by Joe Dumas & Jean Fox in the HCI Handbook by Jacko & Sears
    

    Papers, Proceedings & Web Resources
    

12. Journal of Usability Studies
13. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Portal CHI Proceedings
    
14. Proceedings of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society Annual Conferences
    
15. Usability Scorecard
16. Single Usability Metric (SUM) Excel Calculator 
17. The international standard definition of Usability (ISO 9241 part 11)
    
18. Web Design Evaluation & Testing List at the University of Minnesota
19. Alertbox : Nielsen's classic source (dig in the archives)
    

    Questionnaires

20. The System Usability Scale (SUS) [pdf] (software, hardware, websites)
    
21. SUMI (software)
    
22. PSSUQ [pdf] (software, hardware & websites)
    
23. SUPR-Q and WAMMI (websites)
24. A Meta Analysis of several studies using questionnaires Measuring Usability: Preference vs. Performance by Nielsen and Levy
25. FAQ's about Questionnaires
    

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