Sep 12, 2009

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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