Essential Books for User Interface Designers
If you are looking to stock your library, you can’t go wrong with this list of books. These are the books that are literally on my desk, listed in order from top of the stack to the bottom.
The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World’s Most Consequential Trivia
By David Mccandless
If you are a fan of Edward Tufte, you need this book. If you don’t know who Tufte is, you need this book, and all of Tufte’s books
Prototyping: A Practitioner’s Guide
By Todd Warfel. Rosenfeld Media, November 2009.
These concepts completely changed the way we do business. Full of real examples of how to use different popular tools for prototyping. this is # 2 in my stack because I had to look up some information about prototyping with Fireworks this morning.
Smashing Book
The book is available exclusively from Smashing Magazine. This book looks at Web design rules of thumb, color theory, usability guidelines, user interface design, best coding and optimization practices, as well as typography, marketing, branding and exclusive insights from top designers across the globe. Oh, and one of my applications, OtherInbox, is in the first chapter!
Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions
By Bill Scott and Theresa Neil. O’Reilly Media, January 2009.
Yeah, I know this is our book, but it really is on my desk. I use it for reference at least once a week. I had to look up ZUIs, zoomable user interfaces, earlier this week for a project.
Designing for the Social Web
By Joshua Porter. New Riders 2008.
Great, great read. Worth every penny because it is full of practical advice. Make sure you also look at Joshua’s talk on SlideShare: Designing for Social Interaction. I don’t necessarily refer to this book every day, but I recommend it to at least five start-ups a week.
Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience
By Christian Crumlish, Erin Malone. O’Reilly Media, September 2009.
“This book is a fairly exhaustive catalog of most UI patterns in place today with sites that integrate social networking. There are some very interesting discussions about each pattern, when to use it and who uses it. ” from an Amazon review. I need to pull this book out of the stack and take it with me on the plane next week.
Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks
By Luke Wroblewski. Rosenfeld Media, May 2008.
Anyone who designs anything for the web needs a copy of this. It makes it so nice to not have to think about designing forms. I can spend my time on more interesting design challenges. This book doesn’t leave my desk.
Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points
by Matthew Linderman and Jason Fried
Let the 37signals team show you the best way to prevent your customers from making mistakes, and help them recover for errors if a mistake does occur. This book doesn’t leave my desk either.
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
By Alan Cooper. Wiley 2007.
Learn the rules before you break them. Please. Pretty please with a cherry on top? Get this book and read it if you are responsible for designing anything more than a simple web site. Good for Flex developers and Ajax developers as well. Lots of patterns that can be extrapolated for Rich Internet Applications.
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Great list. I still need to check out the “Prototyping” book. It seems prototyping is quite the hot topic right now!
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Gerry Said,
January 19, 2010 @ 1:01 pm
Great list of books. The problem I had with this post, was I spent the first 30 seconds+, trying to click the books in the image (as my browser window just ended before the text started). I was like, “arg!, what a stupid post, I want to know what the middle book it, why can’t I click to to go to amazon…” Then , I was like, “oh, there is a scroll bar, *blush*” and then proceeded to scrolled down and saw the text… So embarrassing as it is, I thought I would mention it from a UX perspective…
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February 2, 2010 @ 8:58 am
@Gerry: You busted us! Thanks for the comment
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March 1, 2010 @ 11:30 pm
jenifer tidwell’s ‘designing interfaces’ should be there. =)
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