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Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies)
Bill Buxton
Morgan Kaufmann, 2007
The value of design
+ But one can sketch in code too
+ If you're involved in design, read this book
+ Outstanding Book
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The Design of Future Things: Author of The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
Basic Books, 2007
How intelligence will be installed in new devices
+ Augmenation, not automation
This book was very interesting, as all of Don Norman's books are. In this book he goes into detail about how future designers will need to design future devices, how they can make them more useful and more human. He talks a lot about how what sounds like seemingly 'no-brainer' new features ...
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Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
Basic Books, 2005
excellent!
+ A good read but it won't change how you think about design
+ a straightforward argument for considering the human in human-centered design
+ An interesting view about how products can change our lives
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Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques
Kevin Mullet, Darrell Sano
Prentice Hall PTR, 1994
A Great Book
This book does a great job of covering fundamentals. Many real world examples make it a great reference.
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Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning
Dan Brown
New Riders Press, 2006
Excellent Handbook for Creating Documents
+ Wheres the templates and reference material?
+ Understand how to properly design a user friendly web site.
This is an excellent handbook for creating all those design documents you'll need for communicating with others on your team. Each chapter is devoted to a single type of document and I particularly like the layered approach going from simple to complex. I've used it dozens of times in the last ...
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Designing Interactions
Bill Moggridge
The MIT Press, 2007
Must read for any designer, IA, usability professional
+ Great overview of interactions
+ Marcos Chilet .......Diseño de interacción.
Outstanding read about the history of how some of the things we use daily were conceptualized and designed.
Moggridge interviews some of the coolest and relevant inventors of the modern (technology) era.
The book hit a dry spell toward the end but finished strong.
As a usability and design ...
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Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design
Jenifer Tidwell
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005
More Practical Concepts, Less Psychology
+ Visual examples for designing for Information Interchange
+ Excellent
+ A staple for your design library
+ Great interface component reference
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Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error
S. M. Casey
Aegean, 1998
Engaging and informative
+ The case for user-centered design
+ Entertaining and Educational
+ good, sad
+ Ringside Seat at Rubber-necking disaster fest
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The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web (VOICES)
Jesse James Garrett
New Riders Press, 2002
Fundamental, yet comprehensive
+ The Elements of User Experience
Although very basic, this book is great for getting the fundamentals of experience design. Garret creates a model that describes the web design process through five distinct stages. Then he breaks down each stage to identify the differences and overlapping areas between the web as a software ...
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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
Alan Cooper
Sams - Pearson Education, 2004
an essential handbook for designing software
+ A Must Read Classic, Albeit with Some Dated Ideas
+ No Cognitive Friction Here..
Cooper's argument in this book is simple: you have to know your users, and you have to understand what they're trying to accomplish with your software. The method that he puts forth for achieving this understanding is personas, richly-described archetypical users.
The book is easy to read and ...
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Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices (VOICES)
Dan Saffer
Peachpit Press, 2006
Excellent for Aspiring Interaction Designers
+ Interesting
+ Designing for Interaction
I am an aspiring interaction designer and this book by Dan Saffer really nails it for me in terms of laying down a coherent and well-written overview and framework.
This book is essential to the interaction design community in that it defines clearly what interaction design is (and is not) in ...
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About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, ...
Wiley, 2007
Nearly a complete course in the "Cooper Method"
+ If it was all obvious, there wouldn't be a book about it!
+ Essential Reading
I read (and still have) the previous two editions of this book. Unlike the usual "complete revised and updated" hype for new editions, this one has had some serious re-work and expansion.
The whole structure of the book is new and very close to being a complete course/textbook in the Cooper ...
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Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World: Adaptive Path on Design ...
Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, ...
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008
Provides basics for designing products for web software and competitive advantage alike
+ Subject to Change is a great book for shifting your mindset in customer service
+ Good choice for an intro to experience-led design
+ An excellent strategic overview of new product development practices
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Designing for the Social Web (Voices That Matter)
Joshua Porter
New Riders Press, 2008
Web designers and libraries catering to them will find it an excellent guide
+ A new light about web 2.0
+ A must-read for anyone who designs websites professionalliy
+ A very good reference for people needing to get their sites caught up with the social web
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Usability Engineering (Interactive Technologies)
Jakob Nielsen
Morgan Kaufmann, 1993
Well worth a read if you want people to use your software
+ Some thing old, some thing new...
If you are an experienced user interface designer who thoroughly understands what usability is about you probably don't need to read the book (although I would find it strange that you are experienced and did not read this book which is attributed to have coined the term "Usability Engineering"). ...
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