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Re: UX Bookshelf

drivingsouth — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:49:17 -0000

Are these books just the top books on usability/User experience in Amazon by the way???

Re: UX Bookshelf

Jen McGinn — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:03:56 -0000

One of my very favorites, #9 on Lou's list, is "Universal Principles of Design; 100 ways to enhance usability, influenece perception, increase appeal make better design decisions, and teach through design" by Lidwell, Holden, and Butler.

Re: UX Bookshelf

Samantha — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:15:56 -0000

I try to keep my work bookshelf simple since I only have so much room available...

Usability Inspection Methods (Nielsen/Mack)
Prioritizing Web Usability (Nielsen/Loranger)
Contextual Design (Beyer/Holtzblatt)
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Tufte)
Writing Software Documentation (Barker)
Sketching User Experiences (Buxton)
Design Basics Index (Krause)

I supplement these books with volumes and CDs of past CHI conference proceedings and tutorials. If I was smart, I would have kept the thousands of pounds of art, design, and history textbooks from art school. I'm kicking myself now.

Re: UX Bookshelf

Victor — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:10:37 -0000

Lou's got a great big list going...

http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/zeitgeist/book/index

Re: UX Bookshelf

Matthew Oliphant — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:02:58 -0000

No, those are all my UX-related books. And I've read most of them, so I keep them at work mostly as reference material.

I've read a couple of the ones on your list. Never have been impressed with Cooper's stuff.

Re: UX Bookshelf

Tadej — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:39:29 -0000

A great list, thanks!

Re: UX Bookshelf

whitney — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:59:37 -0000

Matthew, I find it so interesting that our shelves are almost completely different (except for Designing Visual Interfaces, Don't Make Me Think, and Contextual Design -- which I lent to someone years ago and never got back) when we do such similar work. I'll definitely dig into some of the ones you have here. Do you have others at home? Is there a difference between the books you display and the ones you read?

Re: UX Bookshelf

Matthew Oliphant — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:50:29 -0000

I am lazy so here's my list.