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Envisioning Information 51 reviews
Edward R. Tufte
Graphics Press, 1990
Envisioning Information
+ Portable affordable art
+ A Continually Rewarding Gem
+ It's a good book
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Wordless Diagrams 7 reviews
Nigel Holmes
Bloomsbury USA, 2005
An entertaining form of design education
+ Intriguing approach
+ Felt a little tricked...
+ good
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Interface Oriented Design: With Patterns (Pragmatic Programmers)11 reviews
Ken Pugh
Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2006
VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
+ The *WHY* of OO development explained!
+ Great Read!
+ This is a good solid book
+ Interface-Oriented Design
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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Appr to Web Usability, 2nd Edition437 reviews
Steve Krug
New Riders Press, 2005
Great book full of truths.
+ Don't Make Me Think - Made Me Think
+ A bit simple, but good
+ Basics are never outdated
+ An absolutely stunning book on usability
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The simplicity cycle: simplicity and complexity in design.(SYSTEM DESIGN) : An article from: Defense AT & L 1 review
Dan Ward
Thomson Gale, 2005
Note from the author
I am the author of this article, which is a work of the US Government and is in the public domain. It was originally published by Defense AT&L, a military technology journal. The author recevies no royalties from the sale of this article.
This article should not be confused with the book of the ...
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Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become46 reviews
Peter Morville
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005
Great Introduction to Search & Also Being Found.
+ Provocative well written
This is a great introduction to some of the more important concepts in search and its corollary - beingfound. Finding information, things, or people on the Internet is one of the most important issues for today's researchers and knowledge workers. Similarly, for businesses or others with a ...
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition95 reviews
Edward R. Tufte
Graphics Press, 2001
Masterpiece of graphic design proves timeless and universal
+ Very nice book
+ Easy and fun to read
I returned to Tufte's first classic book of graphic design principles over 20 years after first discovering it. At the time, I was the corporate librarian for a major electric utility, and the explosion in the organization and creation of information by individuals with new personal-computer ...
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About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design9 reviews
Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, ...
Wiley, 2007
Nearly a complete course in the "Cooper Method"
+ If it was all obvious, there wouldn't be a book about it!
+ Essential Reading
I read (and still have) the previous two editions of this book. Unlike the usual "complete revised and updated" hype for new editions, this one has had some serious re-work and expansion.
The whole structure of the book is new and very close to being a complete course/textbook in the Cooper ...
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Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces (Interactive Technologies)6 reviews
Carolyn Snyder
Morgan Kaufmann, 2003
Great book packed with sensible advice
+ Usability and paper prototyping
+ Everything you needed to know about paper prototyping and more!
+ Everything you wanted to know about paper prototyping
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The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) 43 reviews
John Maeda
The MIT Press, 2006
Helpful guide on how to incorporate simplicity into your product planning
+ Less is More
+ Good Solid Material
+ Getting to "the other side of complexity"
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Visual & Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Decision Making14 reviews
Edward R. Tufte
Graphics Press, 1997
Superb analytical writing
+ Show Me The Numbers
+ A must have book for presenting data
+ demystify the cloud
+ Visual and Statistical Thinking....very visual
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Built for Use: Driving Profitability Through the User Experience9 reviews
Karen Donoghue, Michael D Schrage
McGraw-Hill, 2002
Voice of a Consultant
+ Four Plus or 5 Minus
+ Buy this book and give it to management
Built for Use, by user experience strategist Karen Donoghue, is a compendium of knowledge that anyone hoping to build a truly usable user interface should possess. Donoghue draws on her many years of experience as an industry consultant to present analyses of how websites and other human-machine ...
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Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction18 reviews
Helen Sharp, Yvonne Rogers, ...
Wiley, 2007
A thourough and very thoughfull 2nd edition
+ loving every bit of it
+ Excellent Book
Congratulations for the 2nd edition. Now everything fits in its proper place and the chapter sequence makes sense and gradually takes you from the basics of intercative systems design to design methodologies and evaluation. No more jumping around to achieve a logical subject sequence that we had to ...
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Information Visualization, Second Edition: Perception for Design (Interactive Technologies)7 reviews
Colin Ware
Morgan Kaufmann, 2004
Great for Interface designers or visualizationers
+ Classic introduction to InfoVis
+ Excellent, despite its flaws
WOW. This guy did his homework! Ware covers the basics and more advanced topics. I felt he goes beyond most books on this subject by giving his suggestions and not just stating facts.
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Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data40 reviews
Stephen Few
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006
Easy to read and simple to understand
+ drags you to read it!!
+ Clear, concise, and cleanly designed and presented.
+ Good, Practical Contribution to Visually Communicating Data
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The Usability Engineering Lifecycle: A Practitioner's Handbook for User Interface Design (Interactive ...7 reviews
Deborah J. Mayhew
Morgan Kaufmann, 1999
Must buy for human computer engineers
+ Excellent book
+ My Bible
+ A pratical process with material ; can be integrated in UP
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Designing Interactions14 reviews
Bill Moggridge
The MIT Press, 2007
Must read for any designer, IA, usability professional
+ Great overview of interactions
+ Marcos Chilet .......Diseño de interacción.
Outstanding read about the history of how some of the things we use daily were conceptualized and designed.
Moggridge interviews some of the coolest and relevant inventors of the modern (technology) era.
The book hit a dry spell toward the end but finished strong.
As a usability and design ...
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The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems (ACM Press)54 reviews
Jef Raskin
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000
"Outside the box" and brilliantly so
+ Outdated, but interesting.
+ Excellent book on HCI
+ Amazing
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Contextual Design : A Customer-Centered Approach to Systems Designs (Interactive Technologies)12 reviews
Hugh Beyer, Karen Holtzblatt
Morgan Kaufmann, 1997
Great book, right price
Beyer & Holtzblatt have done an excellent job describing the process of contextual design. I'm currently implementing a new company-wide business process, in conjunction with co-workers, and thought it would simply be a good idea to both refresh my memory, gather ideas, and form concepts that ...
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Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design7 reviews
Terry Winograd, Fernando Flores
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1987
Not Just Another Pretty Face
+ Thoughtful and Brilliant
+ What are We to Make of Computers, and Computers Make of Us
A few years ago Byte Magazine named this one of the 10 most important books in the history of the computer industry. Flores was asked to keynote the 50th anniversary meeting of the ACM on the strength of the work he has done, some of which is shown here. I am a little surprised not to find a ...
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