Topic: design

Project Guide to UX Design, A

For user experience designers in the field or in the making

• Russ Unger
• Carolyn Chandler

2009 · 5 likes

Mental Models

Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior

• Indi Young

2008 · 1 read · 7 likes

Designing Interactions

• Bill Moggridge

2007 · 3 likes

Remote Research

Real Users, Real Time, Real Research

• Nate Bolt
• Tony Tulathimutte

2010 · 4 likes

Design of Future Things, The

• Donald A. Norman

2007

Emotional Design

Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

• Donald A. Norman

2005 · 2 read · 5 likes

Designing the User Interface

Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (5th Edition)

• Ben Shneiderman
• Catherine Plaisant
• Maxine Cohen
• Steven Jacobs

1997

Sketching User Experiences

Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies)

• Bill Buxton

2007 · 2 read · 10 likes · 1 review

Thoughts on Interaction Design

• Jon Kolko

2007 · 3 likes

Thoughtful Interaction Design

A Design Perspective on Information Technology

• Jonas Löwgren
• Erik Stolterman

2007 · 2 likes

Designing the Obvious

A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design

• Robert Hoekman, Jr.

2006 · 3 likes

Information Architecture

Blueprints for the Web (2nd Edition)

• Austin Govella
• Christina Wodtke

2002

Digital Ground

Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing

• Malcolm McCullough

2005 · 2 likes

Design Research

Methods and Perspectives

2003

Rapid Contextual Design

A How-to Guide to Key Techniques for User-Centered Design (Interactive Technologies)

• Karen Holtzblatt
• Jessamyn Burns Wendell
• Shelley Wood

2004 · 1 like · 1 review

Contextual Design

Defining Customer-Centered Systems (Interactive Technologies)

• Karen Holtzblatt
• Hugh Beyer

1997 · 2 likes

Forms that Work

Designing Web Forms for Usability (Interactive Technologies)

• Caroline Jarrett
• Gerry Gaffney

2008 · 2 likes

Site-Seeing

A Visual Approach to Web Usability

• Luke Wroblewski

2002

Envisioning Information

• Edward R. Tufte

1990 · 2 read · 8 likes

Visual Explanations

Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

• Edward R. Tufte

1997 · 1 like

Practical Guide to Information Design, The

• Ronnie Lipton

2007

Storytelling for User Experience

Crafting Stories for Better Design

• Kevin Brooks
• Whitney Quesenbery

2010 · 2 likes

Experience Design

• Nathan Shedroff

2001

Subject To Change

Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World

• Brandon Schauer
• Peter Merholz
• Todd Wilkens
• David Verba

2008 · 1 like

Gamestorming

A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers

• Dave Gray
• Sunni Brown
• James Macanufo

2010 · 6 likes

Design of Everyday Things, The

• Donald A. Norman

2002 · 4 read · 15 likes

Humane Interface, The

New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems

• Jef Raskin

2000 · 3 likes

Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated

125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design

• William Lidwell
• Kritina Holden
• Jill Butler

2010 · 10 likes · 2 reviews

Inmates Are Running the Asylum, The

Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

• Alan Cooper

2004 · 7 likes

Homepage Usability

50 Websites Deconstructed

• Jakob Nielsen
• Marie Tahir

2001 · 1 like

Designing for People

• Henry Dreyfuss

2003 · 1 like

Designing for the Digital Age

How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services

• Kim Goodwin

2009 · 4 likes

Evolution of Useful Things, The

How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are

• Henry Petroski

1994

Evolution of Useful Things, The

How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are

• Henry Petroski

1994

Designing Visual Interfaces

Communication Oriented Techniques

• Kevin Mullet

1994 · 1 like

Designing Web Navigation

Optimizing the User Experience

• James Kalbach

2007 · 1 read · 3 likes · 1 review

Making Comics

Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

• Scott Mccloud

2006 · 2 likes

New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, The

A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence

• Betty Edwards

1999 · 1 like

Shaping Things (Mediaworks Pamphlets)

• Bruce Sterling

2005 · 1 like

CSS Pocket Reference

Visual Presentation for the Web

• Eric A. Meyer

2007 · 1 like

Elements of Typographic Style, The

• Robert Bringhurst

2004 · 4 likes

Letting Go of the Words

Writing Web Content that Works (Interactive Technologies)

• Ginny Redish

2007 · 2 likes

Designing Web Interfaces

Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions

• Bill Scott
• Theresa Neil

2009 · 1 like

Art of Electronics, The

• Paul Horowitz

1989

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

• R. Buckminster Fuller

2008 · 1 like

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

Learning to Give, Take, and Use Instructions

• Richard Saul Wurman

1991

Information Anxiety 2 (Hayden/Que)

• Richard S Wurman

2000

Information Architecture

Blueprints for the Web (2nd Edition)

• Christina Wodtke

2009 · 2 likes

Communicating Design

Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter)

• Dan M. Brown

2010 · 4 likes

Elements of User Experience, The

User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond

• Jesse James Garrett

2010 · 4 likes

Web ReDesign 2.0

Workflow that Works (2nd Edition)

• Kelly Goto

2004 · 3 likes

Analog In, Digital Out

Brendan Dawes on Interaction Design

• Brendan Dawes

2006

Neuro Web Design

What Makes Them Click?

• Susan M. Weinschenk

2009 · 3 likes · 1 review

Visualizing Data

Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment

• Ben Fry

2008

Ways of Seeing

Based on the BBC Television Series

• John Berger

1990 · 2 likes

Art of Looking Sideways, The

• Alan Fletcher

2001 · 1 like

101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

• Matthew Frederick

2007 · 5 likes

Bulletproof Web Design

Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS (2nd Edition)

• Dan Cederholm

2007

Interaction Design

Beyond Human-Computer Interaction

• Helen Sharp

2007 · 1 like

Emotional Design

Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

• Donald A. Norman

2005 · 1 like

Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated

125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design

• William Lidwell

2010 · 2 likes

Thoughtless Acts?

Observations on Intuitive Design

• Jane Fulton Suri

2005

Change by Design

How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation

• Tim Brown

2009

Human Factor, The

Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology

• Kim Vicente

2004

Universal Principles of Design

• William Lidwell

2003

Transcending CSS

The Fine Art of Web Design

• Andy Clarke

2006

Do Good Design

How Designers Can Change the World

• David B. Berman

2008

Making and Breaking the Grid

A Graphic Design Layout Workshop

• Timothy Samara

2005

Art and Science of Web Design, The

• Jeffrey Veen

2000

Visual Miscellaneum, The

A Colorful Guide to the World's Most Consequential Trivia

• David McCandless

2009

Made to Stick

Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

• Chip Heath

2007 · 2 read · 6 likes · 1 review

Getting Real

The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application

• Jason Fried

2009

Wordless Diagrams

• Nigel Holmes

2005

Visual Thinking

Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Printing

• Rudolf Arnheim

2004

Visual Thinking

for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)

• Colin Ware

2008

Show Me the Numbers

Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten

• Stephen Few

2004

Information Dashboard Design

The Effective Visual Communication of Data

• Stephen Few

2006 · 2 likes

Web Style Guide, 3rd edition

Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites (Web Style Guide

• Patrick J. Lynch

2009

Non-Designer's Design Book, The (3rd Edition)

• Robin Williams

2008

Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity, The

Design, Technology, Business, Life)

• John Maeda

2006

Design of Business, The

Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage

• Roger L. Martin

2009

Presentation Zen

Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery

• Garr Reynolds

2008

Things That Make Us Smart

Defending Human Attributes In The Age Of The Machine

• Donald A. Norman

1994

Invisible Computer, The

Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution

• Donald A. Norman

1999

How Buildings Learn

What Happens After They're Built

• Stewart Brand

1995

Phaidon Design Classics (3 Volume Set) (Pts. 1, 2 & 3)

• Editors of Phaidon Press

2006

Mythical Man-Month, The

Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)

• Frederick P. Brooks

1995

Pattern Language, A

Towns, Buildings, Construction (Cess Center for Environmental)

• Christopher Alexander

Universal Principles of Design

• William Lidwell

2003

Design of Design, The

Essays from a Computer Scientist

• Frederick P. Brooks

2010