Resources - Books
There are numerous books on the market covering Usability and Design, and listed below are a selection of the best ones.
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Institutionalization
Usability: A Step-by-step Guide
Eric Schaffer
Paperback – 208 pages – February 2004.
Voice
User Interface Design
Michael H. Cohen
Paperback - 368 pages - February 2004.
Human
Computer Interaction
Alan Dix, Janet Finlay, Gregory D. Abowd, Russell Beale
Hardcover - 832 pages - November 2003.
Universal
Principles of Design: 100 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception,
Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach Through Design
Jill Butler, Kritina Holden, Will Lidwell
Paperback – 224 pages – October 2003.
Introduction to Human Factors Engineering: International
Edition
Christopher D. Wickens, John Lee, Yili Liu, Sallie Gordon-Becker
Paperback - 587 pages - October 2003.
Mobile Usability: How Nokia Changed the Face
of the Mobile Phone
Christian Lindholm, Turkka Keinonen
Paperback -352 pages – June 2003.
Usability Evaluation of Online Learning Programs
Claude Ghaoui (Editor)
Hardcover - 350 pages - June 2003.
HCI Models, Theories and Frameworks: Toward
a Multidisciplinary Science
John Carroll
Hardcover -576 pages - April 2003.
Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's
Guide for User Research
Mike Kuniavsky
Paperback - 576 pages - April 2003.
Web Bloopers: 60 Common Web Design Mistakes
and How to Avoid Them
Jeff Johnson
Paperback - 344 pages - April 2003.
About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction
Design
A. Cooper
Paperback - 576 pages - April 2003.
User Interface Design (Computing Study Texts
S.)
Jenny Le Peuple, Robert Scane, Jenny Le Peuple
Paperback -128 pages - March 2003.
Socio-Technical and Human Cognition Elements
of Information Systems
Steve Clarke (Editor), Elayne Coakes (Editor), M. Gordon Hunter (Editor),
Andrew Wenn (Editor)
Hardcover - 300 pages - September 2002.
The Measure of Man and Woman: Human Factors
in Design
H Dreyfuss
Hardcover - 104 pages- February 2002.
Designing for Humans (Psychology at Work)
Jan Noyes
Paperback - 232 pages - September 2001.
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach
to Web Usability
Steve Krug
Paperback - 195 pages - October 2000.
An Introduction to Usability
Patrick W Jordon
Paperback – 136 pages – January1998.
Human Factors for Technical Communicators (Wiley
Technical Communication Library)
Marlana Coe
Paperback - 368 pages - March 1996.
Usability books
Handheld Usability
S.W. Weiss
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Paperback - 31 August, 2002.
Usability: The Site Speaks For Itself
Kelly Braun, Max Gadney, Matthew Haughey, Adrian Roselli, Don Synstelien,
Tom Walter, David Wertheimer, Molly E. Holzschlag, Bruce Lawson
Paperback - 300 pages - May 2002.
Constructing
Accessible Web Sites
Jim Thatcher, Cynthia Waddell, Shawn Henry, Sarah Swierenga, Mark
Urban, Michael Burks, Bob Regan, Paul Bohman
Paperback - 300 pages - published 1 April , 2002.
Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability
Luke Wroblewski
Hungry Minds
Paperback - published 1 April, 2002.
Flash 99% Good: A Guide to Macromedia Flash
Usability
Kevin Airgid, Stephanie Reindel
Osborne McGraw-Hill
Paperback - 240 pages, published 15 March 2002.
Shaping Web Usability
Albert N. Badre
Paperback - 336 pages published 4 February, 2002.
Web Usability and Navigation: a Beginner's Guide
Merlyn Holmes
Paperback - 550 pages, published1 February, 2002.
Measuring The Success Of Your Website
Hurol Inan
Paperback - 260 pages, published 8 January, 2002.
Homepage Usability
Jakob Nielsen, Marie Tahir
Paperback - 326 pages, published14 November, 2001.
Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites That
Work
Tom Brink, Darren Gergle, Scott Wood
Paperback - 320 pages, published15 October, 2001.
Usability Engineering: Scenario-based Development
of Human Computer Interaction
Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll
Paperback - 575 pages, published 15 October, 2001.
Wireless Web Usability Handbook
Mark Pearrow
Paperback - 350 pages, published 15 September, 2001.
People and Computers XIV - Usability or Else!
Sharon McDonald, Gilbert Cockton, Yvonne Waern
Paperback -472 pages, published September 2000.
Web Site Usability Handbook
Mark Pearrow
Paperback -350 pages, published 15 July, 2000.
Online Communities
Jenny Preece
Paperback - 464 pages, published June 2000.
Usability Engineering
Xris Faulkner
Paperback - 256 pages, published February 2000.
Designing Web Usability
Jakob Neilsen
Paperback - 417 pages, published January 2000.
The Usability Engineering Life Cycle
Deborah J. Mayhew
Paperback - 550 pages, published April 1999.
The Inmates Are Running The Asylum
Alan Cooper
Hardback - 261 pages published April 1999.
Web Site Usability
Jared Spool, Tara Scanlon, Will Schroder, Carolyn Snyder, Terri DeAngelo
Paperback - 156pages, published December 1998.
The Media Equation
Bryon Reeves, Clifford Nass
Paperback - 301 pages.
Human Factors for Technical Communicators
Marlana Coe
Paperback - 350 pages, published January 1996.
Human Computer Interaction
Jenny Preece
Hardcover - published May 1994.
Handbook of Usability Testing : How to Plan,
Design, and Conduct Effective Tests
Jeffrey Rubin
Paperback - 330 pages, published April 1994.
A Guide to Usability: Human Factors in Computing
Jenny Preece
Paperback - 144 pages, published July 1992.
Cost-Justifying Usability
Randolf G Bias
Hardcover - 312 pages, published June 1994.
Interface design - web books
The Art & Science of Web Design
Jeffrey Veed
Paperback - 270 pages, published 9 January, 2002.
Web Redesign Workflow that works
Kelly Goto, Emily Cotler
Paperback - 350 pages, published 30 September, 2001.
Design for Community
Derek M. Powazek
Paperback - 250 pages, published 30 September, 2001.
Information Architecture for the World Wide
Web
Louise Rosenfeld & Peter Morville
Paperback - 226 pages, published February 1998.
Web Navigation Studio
Jennifer Fleming
Paperback - 280 pages, published December 1997.
Interface design - windows books
The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software
Design
Microsoft Press
Paperback - 576 pages, published September 1999.
The Elements of User Interface Design
Theo Mandel
Paperback - 440 pages, published February 1997.
Visual Interface Design for Windows : Effective
User Interfaces for Windows 95, Windows Nt, and Windows 3.1
Virginia Howlett
Paperback - 230 pages, published April 1996.
About Face
Alan Cooper
Paperback - 600 pages, published October 1995.
Interface design - general books
Interaction Design
J. Preece, Yvonne Rogers, Helen Sharp
Paperback - 544 pages, published 21 January, 2002.
Design for Interaction
Lisa Baggerman
Hardcover - 189pages, published August 2000.
Contextual Design
Hugh Beyer & Karen Holtzblatt
Hardcover - 500 pages, published March 2000.
Information Visualization
Colin Ware
Hardcover - 500 pages, published March 2000.
GUI Bloopers
Jeff Johnson
Paperback - 559pages, published January 2000.
Software for Users
Larry L. Constantine, Lucy A.D. Lockwood
Hardcover - 579pages, published April 1999.
"The Economist" Style Guide
Hardcover - 160 pages, published June 1998.
Bringing Design to Software
T. Winograd, J. Bennett, L. De Young, B. Hartfield(Editor)
Paperback - 321 pages, published February 1996.
The Icon Book : Visual Symbols for Computer
Systems and Documentation
William Horton
Paperback - 432 pages, published March 1994.
Developing User Interfaces : Ensuring Usability
Through Product & Process
Deborah Hix, H. Rex Hartson
Paperback - 416 pages, published April 1993.
UML and Object Oriented design books
Applying Use Cases
Geri Schneider, Jason P. Winters
Paperback - 192 pages, published September 1998.
Reengineering Legacy Software Systems
Howard Wilbert Miller
Paperback - 250 pages, published November 1997.
Object Technology: A Manager's Guide
David A. Taylor
Paperback - 176 pages, published September 1997.
Business Engineering with Object Technology
David A. Taylor
Paperback - 198 pages, published February 1995.
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