Great UX Design Books By an Amazon.com customer | |
 | Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell Buy used from: $23.96 If you internalize all of these you can design anything. |
 | Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition by Steve Krug Buy new: $22.40 / Used from: $15.60 Canonical tome devoted to decreasing users' cognitive load. Don't make them think; do it for them. |
 | About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper Buy new: $23.78 / Used from: $17.10 A radio button is for this, a check box is for that, and here's what we mean when we say "modal." The nuts and bolts of interaction design.... |
 | Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research by Mike Kuniavsky Buy new: $39.50 / Used from: $25.41 Do your research ahead of time, and you increase your chances of success. This book will teach you the methods for figuring out your users. |
 | Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning by Dan M. Brown Buy new: $30.74 / Used from: $4.36 This is a wireframe. This is a sitemap. This is a flow. At some point you must learn what these are and how to produce them, and this book will teach you that. |
 | Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions by Bill Scott Buy new: $29.54 / Used from: $15.40 Design patterns for now. If you're going to steal, steal from the best. |
 | Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks by Luke Wroblewski Buy new: $39.00 / Used from: $35.10 Everyone sees this book and says "Really? A book about web forms?" But really, there's lots to be learned here. |
 | 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $7.91 Sage advice from an architect, much of which is applicable to UX design. |
 | Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen Buy new: $34.49 / Used from: $0.22 This is the book that started it all for me, opening my eyes to considerations beyond prettiness. I still go back to this for the fundamentals. |
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