UX Books
“Desert Island” UX Books
RSS#1 Don't Make Me Think : A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
- Nominations: 29
- Blog Mentions: 8215
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#3 The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
- Nominations: 18
- Blog Mentions: 8198
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#4 The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web by Jesse Garrett
- Nominations: 12
- Blog Mentions: 2192
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#6 Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research by Mike Kuniavsky
- Nominations: 10
- Blog Mentions: 23
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#7 Universal Principles of Design: 100 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach Through Design by Jill Butler, Kritina Holden and William Lidwell
- Nominations: 8
- Blog Mentions: 13
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#8 Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning by Dan Brown
- Nominations: 7
- Blog Mentions: 2817
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#9 Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld
- Nominations: 6
- Blog Mentions: 20787
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#10 The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems by Jef Raskin
- Nominations: 6
- Blog Mentions: 1061
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#11 The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper
- Nominations: 6
- Blog Mentions: 90
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#13 Contextual Design : A Customer-Centered Approach to Systems Designs by Hugh Beyer and Karen Holtzblatt
- Nominations: 5
- Blog Mentions: 12169
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#14 About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper, David Cronin and Robert Reimann
- Nominations: 5
- Blog Mentions: 10449
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#15 Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
- Nominations: 5
- Blog Mentions: 8214
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#17 Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web by Christina Wodtke
- Nominations: 4
- Blog Mentions: 127776
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#19 Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior by Indi Young
- Nominations: 4
- Blog Mentions: 25979
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#21 Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell
- Nominations: 4
- Blog Mentions: 6246
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#24 Design Research: Methods and Perspectives by Brenda Laurel and Peter Lunenfeld
- Nominations: 3
- Blog Mentions: 46110
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#27 The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
- Nominations: 3
- Blog Mentions: 8402
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#28 About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper and Robert Reimann
- Nominations: 3
- Blog Mentions: 8297
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#29 Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling
- Nominations: 3
- Blog Mentions: 6144
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#30 Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
- Nominations: 3
- Blog Mentions: 4428
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#31 Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte
- Nominations: 3
- Blog Mentions: 3202
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#33 Essentials by Tom Peters
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 12351885
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#34 The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites by Douglas Duyne, Jason Hong and James Landay
- Nominations: 2
- Blog Mentions: 60950
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#35 S M L XL: Second Edition by Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau and Hans Werlemann
- Nominations: 2
- Blog Mentions: 45277
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#41 Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction by Catherine Plaisant and Ben Shneiderman
- Nominations: 2
- Blog Mentions: 2527
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#42 How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built by Stewart Brand
- Nominations: 2
- Blog Mentions: 1800
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#44 Designing for People by Henry Dreyfuss and Earl Powell
- Nominations: 2
- Blog Mentions: 1350
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#45 Bringing Design to Software by John Bennett, Brad Hartfield, Terry Winograd and Laura Young
- Nominations: 2
- Blog Mentions: 1316
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#46 The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by Roger Angell, William Jr. and E.B. White
- Nominations: 2
- Blog Mentions: 151
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#47 The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design by Brenda Laurel
- Nominations: 2
- Blog Mentions: 37
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#49 By Design: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and Other Object Lessons by Ralph Caplan
- Nominations: 2
- Blog Mentions: 16
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#61 The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 39534
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#68 Growing a Business by Paul Hawken
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 23744
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#72 The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls and David Weinberger
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 20570
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#77 How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market by Gerald Zaltman
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 13202
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#80 The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 9401
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#81 The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M. I. T. by Stewart Brand
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 9098
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#82 The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage by James Gilmore and B. Pine
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 7994
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#84 The Story Factor by Annette Simmons
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 7204
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#87 Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become by Peter Morville
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 5016
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#88 Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error by S. Casey
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 2338
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#96 Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart by Bonnie O'Day
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 443
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#101 Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques by Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 229
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#103 Information Anxiety 2 by Richard Wurman
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 216
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#105 Tibor Kalman, Perverse Optimist by Michael Bierut and Peter Hall
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 174
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#106 The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture by
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 144
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#108 The Inmates Are Running the Asylum : Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How To Restore The Sanity by Alan Cooper
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 89
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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- Sales Rank: 0
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#111 User and Task Analysis for Interface Design by JoAnn Hackos and Janice Redish
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 67
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#112 The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition by Edward Tufte
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 55
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#113 How things don't work by Victor Papanek
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 52
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#116 What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason by Hubert Dreyfus
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 36
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#117 Graphic Design for Electronic Documents and User Interfaces by Aaron Marcus
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 28
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#119 Flaws and Fallacies in Statistical Thinking by Stephen Campbell
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 12
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#121 Education and Ecstasy: With "the Great School Reform Hoax" by George Leonard
- Nominations: 1
- Blog Mentions: 3
- Podcast Mentions: 0
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#122 Community and Privacy Toward a New Architecture of H by Chermayeff S
- Nominations: 1
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#123 Dont Make Me Think a Common Sense Ap 1ST Edition by Steve Krug
- Nominations: 1
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#125 "Defensive Design for the Web : How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points " by Jason Fried and Matthew Linderman
- Nominations: 10
- Blog Mentions: 4348
- Podcast Mentions: 0
- UX Publication Mentions: 0
- Sales Rank: 161810
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