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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 Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage39 reviews
B. Joseph Pine, James H. Gilmore
Harvard Business School Press, 1999
Lightning from a clear sky
+ Secret behind business success
+ excellent service
+ Top Notch
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Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography 2 reviews
Jeff Malpas
Cambridge University Press, 1999
Reader in wonderland
+ As a Post-Graduate student of Philosophy...
This book, like all good philosophy, begins in wonder and in true Heideggerian manner, explores the boundaries of our being by providing a map of the context in which we place ourselves, in which we *have* to place ourselves to understand ourselves. The style is erudite but accessible, the line of ...
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The Persona Lifecycle : Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in ...16 reviews
John Pruitt, Tamara Adlin
Morgan Kaufmann, 2006
One of THE HCI Resource Books for Your Shelf
+ One of the best practitioners books I've read for a long time
+ Theory, Case Studies and Practice
I should admit my bias up front. There are those who like little short books that make one point and make it over and over. There are many popular books in our field that are like that, filled with stories that all basically make the same point and are just a couple of hundred pages long. They ...
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The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web (VOICES) 38 reviews
Jesse James Garrett
New Riders Press, 2002
Fundamental, yet comprehensive
+ The Elements of User Experience
Although very basic, this book is great for getting the fundamentals of experience design. Garret creates a model that describes the web design process through five distinct stages. Then he breaks down each stage to identify the differences and overlapping areas between the web as a software ...
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New Product Development and Production Networks: Global Industrial Experience
Springer, 2000
Prof. Dr. U. Jürgens, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, is renown for his scientific work in fields like human resources, work organization and organization of production and development, especially for automotive industries. In this publication the authors from different countries discuss practical models of integration in development and production as realized in practice. Time-to-Market is the key ...
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Designing for the Social Web (Voices That Matter)12 reviews
Joshua Porter
New Riders Press, 2008
Great Resource for Those Defining the User Experience for Social Web Sites
+ A new light about web 2.0
+ A must-read for anyone who designs websites professionalliy
+ A very good reference for people needing to get their sites caught up with the social web
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Social Life in School: Pupils' Experiences of Breaktime and Recess from 7 to 16 (Educational Change & ...
Pete Blatchford
Routledge, 1998
Are breaktimes really just a time of violence and bullying that could be better used for working? Based on a unique and fascinating longitudinal study of a group of pupils from primary to secondary school, the author of this timely new book proposes an alternative view. He believes that breaktimes plan an important part in children's social development, and through his gathering of pupils' own ...
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Designing for Situation Awareness: An Approach to User-Centered Design2 reviews
Mica R. Endsley, Betty Bolte, ...
CRC, 2003
A Must Read for Designers of Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Support Tools
+ Interface Design is a Life and Death Matter
This is a Should Read for anyone involved with the design of information technology to support complex problem-solving and decision-making in any setting. It's a Must Read for anyone working with highly dynamic situations or critical situation management, including emergency and disaster response. ...
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Search Engines, Link Analysis, and User's Web Behavior: A Unifying Web Mining Approach (Studies in ...
George Meghabghab, Abraham Kandel
Springer, 2008
This book presents a specific and unified approach framework to three major components: Search Engines Performance, Link Analysis, and User s Web Behavior. The explosive growth and the widespread accessibility of the WWW has led to a surge of research activity in the area of information retrieval on the WWW. The book can be used by researchers in the fields of information sciences, engineering ...
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Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior7 reviews
Indi Young
Rosenfeld Media, 2008
Must Have Book for the UX Professional
+ A 'loaner'
+ Great user experience research method, and great book!
+ Great Approach to Design, Not Just For The Web
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Convergence Design: Creating the User Experience for Interactive Television, Wireless, and Broadband1 review
Steve Curran
Rockport Publishers, 2003
Great ITV examples
The book has excellent examples of concepts for interactive television- and some pretty cool work from broadband design companies like Heavy and Artifact. I wish there were more example of wireless projects. Overall- a good balance of visual examples and project details for inspiration.
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Designing Information Spaces: The Social Navigation Approach
Springer, 2003
This volume provides a thoroughly up-to-date guide to the use of the Social Navigation approach in designing information spaces. The first part focuses on real life systems such as Kalas, GeoNotes and Babble, and examines the rationale for some of the design choices made. The second part takes a detailed look at the underlying principles and ideas that drive the field. Overall this book aims to ...
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Public and Situated Displays: Social and Interactional Aspects of Shared Display Technologies (Computer ...
Springer, 2003
Public and situated display technologies can have an important impact on individual and social behaviour and present us with particular interesting new design considerations and challenges. While there is a growing body of research exploring these design considerations and social impact this work remains somewhat disparate, making it difficult to assimilate in a coherent manner. This book brings ...
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Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web (VOICES)27 reviews
Christina Wodtke
New Riders Press, 2002
Good overview/introduction to IA
+ A Good Overview of IA
+ insight into a true leader
+ It's worth taking the time to read a book like this
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Branding Unbound: The Future of Advertising, Sales, and the Brand Experience in the Wireless Age 2 reviews
Rick Mathieson
AMACOM, 2005
One of the Best Marketing Books of the Year
What does the usage of PDAs, cell phones, and the wireless Internet have in common? Not only are they becoming the preferred method of communication among young people but advertisers are desperately trying to find a way to reach them with their products and services without annoying them like ...
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Experiencing Social Work: Learning from Service Users
Mark Doel, Lesley Best
Sage Publications Ltd, 2008
In Experiencing Social Work: Learning from Service Users people tell their stories of positive social work and the difference it has made to their lives. The book was inspired by the knowledge of the many positive stories of social work practice and a belief that we can learn more from what goes right than what goes wrong. Follow these stories to understand good practice, reflect on the lessons ...
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Urban Experience
Routledge, 1995
This book provides a representative selection of the highest quality papers submitted to the IAPS 13 conference held in Manchester in 1994. The papers are concerned with current research on the experience of living in cities and are drawn from developed, developing aand under developed countries in all parts of the world.
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Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices (VOICES)14 reviews
Dan Saffer
Peachpit Press, 2006
Excellent for Aspiring Interaction Designers
+ Interesting
+ Designing for Interaction
I am an aspiring interaction designer and this book by Dan Saffer really nails it for me in terms of laying down a coherent and well-written overview and framework.
This book is essential to the interaction design community in that it defines clearly what interaction design is (and is not) in ...
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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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