These are some highly-recommended books related to usability, from graphic design to user testing.
You may purchase these books simply by clicking the title or cover image below (you will be taken to
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Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work
Tom Brinck, Darren Gergle, Scott Wood
Treats web usability as a practical and realizable business goal, not a buzzword or abstraction.
It teaches you the concepts and skills you will need to know to produce cohesive, easy-to-use web sites while
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Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests
Jeffrey Rubin
A practical book with step-by-step guidelines for conducting a variety of usability tests. Topics covered include, writing, user-interface design, graphic design, engineering, and more. |
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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Steve Krug, Roger Black
Using screen shots, cartoons, diagrams, and sidebars, this book offers a humorous take on the important subject of web usability. |
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Cost Justifying Usability
Randolph G. Bias and Deborah J. Mayhew, eds.
Offers structured techniques for usability engineers and project managers to quantify the costs and benefits of a new product. |
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Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000
Baecker, Grudin, Buxton, Greenberg
A big blue book of the research side of human-computer interaction. As definitive a collection as you'll find of papers throughout the field. |
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The Mythical Man-Month
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
The classic book on managing software development projects. Enjoyable reading. |
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Usability Engineering Lifecycle: A Practitioner's Handbook for User Interface Design
Deborah J. Mayhew
This book presents the techniques of usability engineering as a series of product lifecycle tasks. She discusses iterative design and development processes that do not end with a product launch but begin again with user feedback. |
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Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques
Kevin Mullet, Darrell Sano
Provides general principles of design and applies them to user interfaces. "Good" and "bad" examples help clarify both the problems and ways around them. |
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Designing Web Usability
Jakob Nielsen
This book sets out web design precepts for developers to follow based on statistics (survey results on sizes of screens, types of queries submitted to search portals, response times by connection type) supporting Nielsen's views on web usability. |
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Usability Engineering
Jakob Nielsen
A pragmatic approach to the user interface design process, emphasizing his heuristic evaluation technique. |
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The Non-Designer's Design Book
Robin Williams
A good introduction to basic graphic design, typography, and layout principles. Highly recommended for the beginner. |
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Handheld Usability
S.W. Weiss
A practical, hands-on guide to designing interfaces for handheld, electronic computing and communication devices, including e-mail pagers, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and mobile telephone handsets. |
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Constructing Accessible Web Sites
Jim Thatcher, Cynthia Waddell, Shawn Henry, Sarah Swierenga, Mark Urban, Michael Burks, Bob Regan, Paul Bohman
Provides practical techniques for developing completely accessible web sites with a quick reference guide to accessible web site design. |
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Information Visualization
Robert Spence
Provides real world examples and applications of computer-generated interactive information visualization. |
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