Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?

Re:Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX? by mortenjorck on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @03:42PM (#18667565)

I don’t teach UX design, but if I did, Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things would be the first assigned reading. I’ve even recommended it to friends who aren’t looking to transition into design, but just want a better understanding of the discipline for the occasional departmental web page, etc.

If you want to focus on visual language, iconography, and how graphics communicate, an unconventional, yet highly-regarded choice is Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. What Norman does for interaction, McCloud does for visual communication (and does so, appropriately, in the form of a comic book).

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX? by OJFord on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @05:20PM (#18668232)

I took a course on HCI (at Imperial, Professor Robert Spence) and it _was_ the first 'assigned' reading, definitely recommend - and it's actually a pretty good stocking/'secret santa' present this time of year for anyone even idly curious about things and how they work.

I'd also highly recommend Spence's own book: Information Visualisation. I don't work in HCI/UX at all, but I enjoyed it a lot; it does an excellent job of showing that it's much more than 'just' (sorry!) artsy design.

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