Favorite books
Updated Feb 18, 2001
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On Web Design
THE LATEST BOOKS: PUBLISHED IN 1999, 2000 & 2001
Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Steve Krug.
- GUI Bloopers, Jeff Johnson.
- XML: A Primer, Simon St.Laurent.
- Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, Jakob Nielsen.
CLASSICS & ESSENTIALS
- Web Site Usability : A Designer's Guide, Jared Spool, et al. [ My Review ]
- Usability Engineering, Jakob Nielsen
- Handbook of Usability Testing : How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests, Jeffrey Rubin
- The Design of Everyday Things, Donald A. Norman
- Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, Brenda Laurel
USEFUL
- Flow : The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville
- Total Design : Integrated Methods for Successful Product Engineering, Stuart Pugh
- Things That Make Us Smart : Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine, Donald A. Norman
- Improving Your Human-Computer Interface : A Practical Technique, Andrew Monk, Peter Wright, Jeanne,Davenport, Lora Haber
EDUCATIONAL
- Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage Centered Design, Larry L. Constantine, Lucy A. D. Lockwood
- Human Performance Engineering: Designing High Quality Professional User Interfaces for Computer Products, Applications and Systems, Robert W., Phd Bailey, Robert N. Bailey
- Visual Cognition : Computational, Experimental, and Neuropsychological Perspectives, Glyn W. Humphreys, Vicki Bruce
- Human Error, James Reason
- Cognition in the Wild, Edwin Hutchins
ON XML
- The XML Companion, Neil Bradley.
OTHER RELEVANT BOOKS
- Web Style Guide : Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, Patrick J. Lynch, Sarah Horton
On Thinking
On Life