Re:This is what happens when you let programmers design inte...
by rantfoil on Sunday April 13, 2008 @02:25PM
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If I had to expand my list, I would include:
"Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman
"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" by Edward Tufte
"Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug
Tufte will give you the vocabulary around visual concepts. Norman will give you the vocabulary around evaluating basic usability. Krug will apply both to the domain of the web.
Additional recommendations:
About Face 3.0 -- written by the head of Cooper Design, it outlines in somewhat dry fashion the frontiers of user experience process. Buy this only if you're desperately interested in becoming an interaction designer, or you want to institute user-centered design in your organization. It's really the UCD bible.
"Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" by Edward Tufte "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug
Tufte will give you the vocabulary around visual concepts. Norman will give you the vocabulary around evaluating basic usability. Krug will apply both to the domain of the web.
Additional recommendations: About Face 3.0 -- written by the head of Cooper Design, it outlines in somewhat dry fashion the frontiers of user experience process. Buy this only if you're desperately interested in becoming an interaction designer, or you want to institute user-centered design in your organization. It's really the UCD bible.