For some time I had been slowly acquiring books, reviewing books, and recommending books to collegues who were interested in “getting into” interaction design, user experience design, information architecture or usability. This eventually led to me cataloging my list of what I consider the best books in the field. With help from my friend Dave Malouf (co-founder of the IxDA and Professor of Interaction Design at SCAD), we edited this list of my canon, and now I want to share this list with you. If you have a question about a particular book, feel free to email me.
Next steps, besides slowly acquiring and reviewing more books, is to begin further classification of books. Until that can happen, this is my UX library. If I don’t own it or haven’t read it, it’s definitely not on this list. At the same time, there are books that I own that aren’t included because I thought they sucked for one reason or another. The fourth option is that I have it, have read it, liked it, but simply forgot to include it. So if you ask “Why haven’t you included X, Y, or Z – it’s one of those reasons.”
The Big UX Picture
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper
Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies by Ben Shneiderman
Core: Required Readings in UX
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper , Robert Reimann , David Cronin
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites by Louis Rosenfeld , Peter Morville
Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
Designing the User Interface by Ben Shneiderman
Introductions to UX
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web by Jesse James Garrett
A Project Guide to UX: For user experience designers in the field or in the making by Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler
Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design by Bill Buxton
Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices by Dan Saffer
Thoughts on Interaction Design (Perfect Paperback) by Jon Kolko
Thoughtful Interaction Design: A Design Perspective on Information Technology by Jonas Löwgren , Erik Stolterman
Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design by Robert Hoekman Jr.
Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web by Christina Wodtke
The Electronic Design Studio: Architectural Education in the Computer Era by Malcolm McCulloughWilliam J. Mitchell (Editor), Patrick Purcell (Editor) (Editor),
Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing by Malcolm McCullough
Practice, Methods and Tactics in UX
Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning by Dan Brown
The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web by Steve Mulder , Ziv Yaar
Design Research: Methods and Perspectives by Brenda Laurel and Peter Lunenfeld
Rapid Contextual Design: A How-to Guide to Key Techniques for User-Centered Design by Karen Holtzblatt , Jessamyn Burns Wendell , Shelley Wood
Contextual Design : A Customer-Centered Approach to Systems Designs by Hugh Beyer, Karen Holtzblatt
Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) by Mike Kuniavsky
User and Task Analysis for Interface Design by JoAnn T. Hackos, Ph.D , Janice C. Redish
The Persona Lifecycle : Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) by John Pruitt , Tamara Adlin
Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction by Bonnie A. Nardi
Design Research: Methods and Perspectives by Brenda Laurel (Editor), Peter Lunenfeld (Preface)
Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior by Indy Young
Card Sorting: Design Usable Categories by Donna Spencer
Prototyping: A Practitioners Guide to Prototyping by Todd Zaki Warfel
Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces (Interactive Technologies) by Carolyn Snyder
Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become by Peter Morville
Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design by Jenifer Tidwell
Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns and Practices for Improving the User Experience by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone
Search Patterns: Design for Discovery by Peter Morville
Modular Web Design: Creating Reusable Components for User Experience Design and Documentation by Nathan Curtis
Web Form Design by Luke Wroblewski
Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook by Dan Cederholm
Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman
User-Centered Website Development: A Human-Computer Interaction Approach by Daniel D. McCracken , Rosalee J. Wolfe , Jared M. Spool
Usability
Don’t Make Me Think: A common sense approach to web usability by Steve Krug
Human Factors in Information Systems: The Relationship Between User Interface Designand Human Performance (Human Computer Interaction) by Jane M. Carey (Editor)
Web Usability: A User-Centered Design Approach by Jonathan Lazar
Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines by Sanjay J. Koyani , Robert W. Bailey , Janice R. Nall
Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work (Interactive Technologies) by Tom Brinck , Darren Gergle , Scott D. Wood
Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests by Jeffrey Rubin
A Practical Guide to Usability Testing by Joseph S. Dumas , Janice C. Redish
Prioritizing Web Usability (VOICES) by Jakob Nielsen , Hoa Loranger
Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Nielsen
Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability (Paperback – Jun 28, 2002) by Luke Wroblewski
Web Site Usability (Interactive Technologies)
by Jared Spool , Tara Scanlon , Carolyn Snyder , Terri DeAngelo
Visual Thinking & Info Viz
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition by Edward R. Tufte
Beautiful Evidence by Edward R. Tufte
Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward R. Tufte
Information Design by RobertJacobson (Editor)
Information Graphics: Innovative Solutions in Contemporary Design by Peter Wildbur , Michael Burke
Visual Function: An Introduction to Information Design by Paul Mijksenaar
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