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	Usability 101: Fundamentals and Definition - What, Why, How (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
		Usability is a quality attribute that assesses how easy user interfaces are to use.
		Usability and utility are equally important: It matters little that something is easy if it's not what you want.
		To identify a design's most important usability problems, testing five users is typically enough.
	www.useit.com /alertbox/20030825.html (1147 words)

	Usability First: Usability in Website and Software Design
		Usability First™ provides information and resources for key issues related to usability in website and software design.
		If you are new to the field of usability, visit the introduction to usability.
		Usability First is now offering free usability job postings for usability-related jobs.
	www.usabilityfirst.com (160 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Usability
		Usability is a term used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool or other human-made object in order to achieve a particular goal.
		Usability can also refer to the methods of measuring usability and the study of the principles behind an object's perceived efficiency or elegance.
		Usability consultant Jakob Nielsen and computer science professor Ben Shneiderman have written (separately) about a framework of system acceptability, where usability is a part of "usefulness" and is composed of:
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Usability (1057 words)

	Usability.gov
		Usability Updates - Should All Links be Underlined?
		November 8, 2007 - World Usability Day: Government Careers in Usability Panel, Washington, DC Web Manager University Fall 2007 Schedule
		This is an official U.S. Government Web site managed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
	www.usability.gov (63 words)

	bugresort: Interaction Design Encyclopedia
		Interface Design, Information Design, Usability, Icon Design, Ergonomie
		Approximately 5000 Authors describe(d) terms of Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Design, Human Factors, Usability, Information Architecture, and related fields.
		Few resources go beyond very practical observations, for example within web usability, and none introduce the underlying terms and research in a systematic fashion.”
	www.bugresort.com /archives/findings/interaction-design-encyclopedia.html (127 words)

	usability - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		available or convenient for use: 2000 square feet of usable office space.
		capable of being used: That saw is no longer usable.
		High usability means a system is: easy to learn
	dictionary.reference.com /search?q=usability (141 words)

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