UX Design - Essential Books By an Amazon.com customer | |
 | The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $7.15 Start with this one! • Alan Cooper calls for revolution - we need technology to work in the same way average people think - we need to restore the sanity. He offers a provocative, insightful and entertaining explanation of how talented people continuously design bad software-based products. |
 | The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $8.49 The timeless classic! • Norman's thesis is that when designers fail to understand the processes by which devices work, they create unworkable technology. |
 | Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition by Steve Krug Buy new: $24.99 / Used from: $21.85 Steve Krug's "instant classic" on Web usability. • This book shows you how to put yourself in the position of the person who uses your site. Usability testing on a shoestring budget. Funny, and easy read. Very useful. |
 | The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web by Jesse James Garrett Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $7.94 The best introduction to UX. • Jesse James Garrett gives readers the big picture of Web user experience development, from strategy and requirements to information architecture and visual design. Clear explanations and vivid illustrations that focus on ideas rather than tools or techniques. |
 | Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.02 • How do you create real desire for a product? • Human reaction to design exists on three levels: visceral (appearance), behavioral (how the item performs) and reflective. Successful design has to excel at all these levels. |
 | Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems by Steve Krug Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $18.26 • In this how-to companion to Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Steve Krug spells out an approach to usability testing that anyone can easily apply to their own web site, application, or other product. |
 | A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making by Russ Unger Buy new: $23.09 / Used from: $20.55 • There’s a lot more to successful UX design than knowing the latest Web technologies or design trends: It takes diplomacy, project management skills, and business savvy. • If you are a designer entering or contemplating entering the UX field (or an organization that really needs to understand UX), this is a canonical book. |
 | Thoughts on Interaction Design by Jon Kolko Buy used from: $59.92 • The big picture - what Interaction Design really is about. • Jon Kolko explains the field of interaction design using academic references, historical precedent and real world examples. |
 | Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies) by Bill Buxton Buy new: $28.91 / Used from: $17.80 • Sketching, prototyping, and design are essential parts of the process we use to create new products. • Bill Buxton clarifies the processes and skills of design from sketching to experience modeling. |
 | Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces (Interactive Technologies) by Carolyn Snyder Buy new: $31.65 / Used from: $22.45 • This book is a practical, how-to guide that will prepare you to create and test paper prototypes of all kinds of user interfaces. |
 | Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics (Interactive Technologies) by Thomas Tullis Buy new: $44.51 / Used from: $54.87 • This book is a great resource, and a clear and comprehensive guide with a common-sense approach to how you can gather usability metrics without busting your budget. |
 | The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web by Steve Mulder Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $23.00 • How do we ensure that our Web sites and Applications actually give users what they need? • What are the best ways to understand our users' goals, behaviors, and attitudes, and then turn that understanding into business results? • This practical guide explains how to create and use personas to make your site more successful. |
 | Selling Usability: User Experience Infiltration Tactics by John Rhodes Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $27.06 • How do you get the rest of your organization to care about usability? • This book teaches you how to use underground tools to allow you to easily sneak usability into any organization. |
 | Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge Buy new: $28.35 / Used from: $14.95 • Moggridge tells the story of design processes and explains the focus on people and prototypes that has been successful. • Part history lesson, part computer science thesis, part design education, and part personal design philosophy. |
 | Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites by Peter Morville Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $17.35 • The Bible on IA. • This book offers a top-down planning approach to getting from the recognition of a need for a web site through to the final working design. It acts as a mirror and with careful questioning causes the reader to think through all the elements and decisions required for well-crafted Web design. |
 | Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks by Luke Wroblewski Buy used from: $119.84 • This is a practical, comprehensive, data-driven guide for solving form design challenges. • Luke Wroblewski shows you everything you need to know about designing effective and engaging web forms. |
 | About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $24.95 |
 | Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design by Jenifer Tidwell Buy new: $32.97 / Used from: $10.78 • A great reference book of interfaces presented as design patterns, detailed and well illustrated. |
 | Beautiful Evidence by Edward R. Tufte Buy new: $35.10 / Used from: $25.50 When it comes to information design, there is Tufte and there is the rest... |
 | Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $18.95 |
 | The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition by Edward R. Tufte Buy new: $27.72 / Used from: $10.00 |
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