2008
The
Design of Future Things, By Donald Norman.
Don points out what's going wrong with the wave of products just
coming on the market and some that are on drawing boards everywhere--from "smart" cars
and homes that seek to anticipate a user's every need.
2007
Designing the Mobile User Experience, by Barbara Ballard.
Barbara provides the experienced product development professional
with an understanding of the users, technologies, devices,
design principles, techniques and industry players unique
to the mobile and wireless space.
Prioritizing
Web Usability, by Jakob Nielsen
and Hoa Loranger. Learn about site design, user experience
and usability testing, navigation and search capabilities, old
guidelines and prioritizing usability issues, and more!
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design,
by Alan Cooper. Effective and practical tools you need
to design great desktop applications, Web 2.0 sites, and
mobile devices.
2006
Mobile Interaction Design,
by Matt Jones.
The book concentrates on developing interfaces
and devices with a great deal of sensitivity to human needs,
desires and capabilities.
2004
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products
Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity,
by Alan Cooper. Illustrates how talented people continuously
design bad software-based products and why we need technology
to work the way average people think.
Emotional
Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things, by
Donald Norman, 2004
This is a book to inspire and evangelize. It's more of a why
book than a how book, as in "why are we drawn to some objects
more than others?"
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2000
Don't
Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach To Web Usability, by
Steve Krug, 2000
Includes tips, techniques and examples of website design. It covers topics such
as user patterns, navigation design and home page layout, as well as user testing.
1999
Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, by
Jakob Nielsen, 1999
This book segments discussions of web usability into page, content,
site, and intranet design. Nielsen uses research and many examples
to communicate his guidelines.
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