Books on Usability

Some great books for Usability Practioners:

• Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity
  Author: Jakob Nielsen
• Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
  Author: Steve Krug
• Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
  Author: Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville
• The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience (2nd Edition)
  Author: Douglas K. vanDuyne, James A. Landay, Jason I. Hong
• The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web
  Author: Jesse James Garrett
• Designing With Web Standards
  Author: Jeffrey Zeldman
• Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web
  Author: Christina Wodtke
• Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces
  Author: Carolyn Snyder
• Collaborative Web Development: Strategies and Best Practices for Web Teams
  Author: Jessica Burdman
• The Design of Everyday Things
  Author: Donald A. Norman
• Defensive Design for the Web: How to Improve Error Messages, Help, Forms, and Other Crisis Points (Voices That Matter)
  Author: 37signals, Matthew Linderman, Jason Fried
• Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things
  Author: Donald A. Norman
• Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner\ 's Guide to User Research (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)
  Author: Mike Kuniavsky
• The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
  Author: Jef Raskin
• Design Research: Methods and Perspectives
  Author: Laurel, Brenda Laurel
• GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and WebDesigners
  Author: Jeff Johnson
• The Persona Lifecycle: Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design
  Author: John Pruitt
• Designing Interfaces
  Author: Jenifer Tidwell
• Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design
  Author: Bill Buxton
• Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design and Conduct Effective Tests
  Author: Jeffrey Rubin
• Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner 's Guide to User Research
  Author: Mike Kuniavsky
• Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction (2nd Edition)
  Author: Helen Sharp
• Designing the moment: web interface design concepts in action
  Author: Robert Hoekman
• Measuring The User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics
  Autgor: Tom Tullis and Bill Albert
• About Face 3.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design
  Autgor: Alan Cooper, Robert M. Reimann, David Cronin
• The inmates are running the asylum
  Author: Alan Cooper
• Designing object-oriented user interfaces
  Autgor: Dave Collins
• Designing interactions
  Autgor: Bill Moggridge
• Dont Make Me Think Presentation - Quick Tips Regarding Web Usability And User Testing
• Prioritizing Web Usability
  Author: Jakob Nielsen
• Designing the Obvious- A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design
  Author: Robert Hoekman

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