Design Books: A list Sept 2010

  • About Face (Alan Cooper)
  • Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand (by Malcolm McCullough)
  • Agile Experience Design (by Anders Ramsay)
  • Card Sorting (by Donna Spencer)
  • Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning (by: Dan Brown)
  • Contextual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems (Interactive Technologies) (by Hugh Beyer, Karen Holtzblatt)
  • Design of Everyday Things (Don Norman)
  • Designing for the Digital Age (by Kim Goodwin)
  • Designing Interactions (Bill Moggridge)
  • Designing Interfaces (by: Jenifer Tidwell)
  • Designing The Moment (by Robert Hoekman)
  • Designing The Obvious (by Robert Hoekman)
  • Designing Web Interfaces from O’Reilly (Bill Scott, Theresa Neil)
  • Designing with the Mind in Mind (by Jeff Johnson)
  • Don’t Make Me Think (Steve Krug)
  • Effective UI: The Art of Building Great User Experience in Software (by Jonathan Anderson, John McRee, Robb Wilson)
  • Envisioning Information (Edward Tufte)
  • Handcrafted CSS (Dan Cederholm’s)
  • Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems (by Jeff Raskin)
  • Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click? (Susan M. Weinschenk)
  • Neuromarketing: Understanding the Buy Buttons in Your Customer’s Brain (Patrick Renvoise, Christophe Morin)
  • Prototyping (Todd Zaki Warfel)
  • Sketching User Experiences (Bill Buxton )
  • Storytelling for User Experience (Whitney Quesenbery & Kevin Brooks)
  • The Art of Interactive Design: A Euphonious and Illuminating Guide to Building Successful Software (Chris Crawford )
  • Thoughtful Interaction Design: A Design Perspective on Information Technology (by Jonas Löwgren, Erik Stolterman )
  • Thoughts on Interaction Design (by Jon Kolko )
  • Web Form Design (by Luke Wroblewski)
  • Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works (by: Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler )

I made Squidoo lense to rank these. http://www.squidoo.com/interaction-design-books

2 comments

  1. Michael, I’m with you on the subset of these that I’ve gotten round to. I generally keep Luke W’s and Jenifer Tidwell’s books close to hand. And I cannot recommend Krug’s book enough.

    Different topic, do you know of any useful books that deal with hardware device design? I’m especially interested in portable consumer devices.

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