Web Design / development - McKillen Inc.

April 20th, 2009

I am pursuing ways of tailoring my web development to encompass better usability practices while at the same time, improving my abilities with the most widely used skills used in the job market today.

Yep ... this site needs a serious redo - :) but if you are looking to talk Web Design or Dev fire off an email to me david at mckillen.net - McKillen Inc. Or get me on Twitter.

PERSONAL ACADEMIC INTERESTS:

Human-Computer Interation:

Just some recent HCI references I have been reading:

Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning
Brown, D. (2006)

Designing Web Usability
Nielsen J. (2000)

Prioritizing usability issues
Nielsen J. and Loranger (2006)

The Design of everyday things
Norman, D. (2002)

Return on Design
Phyo, A. (2003)

Usability in Practice
Wilklund, E. (1994)

Creating User-Interfaces by Demonstration
Rheinboldt, W. and Siewiorek, D. (1988)

User Interface Design
Thimbleby, H. (1990)

Multimedia Interface Design
Blatner, M. and Dennenberg, R. (1992)

Computers as Theatre
Laurel, B. (1991)

Usability Engineering
Nielsen, J. (1993)

Designing the User Interface: Strategies for effective Human-Computer Interaction
Shneiderman, B. (1992)

Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency
Nielsen, J. (1989)

Tog on Interface
Tognazzini, B. (1996)

Resources in Human-Computer Interaction
Collection introduced by Mackay, E. (1990)