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CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions 110 reviews
Andy Budd, Simon Collison, ...
friends of ED, 2006
EXCELLENT!!!
+ Excellent reference despite errors
+ Awesome
Love this book!! I use it so much pages are falling out. Great book!
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Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS ...105 reviews
Dan Cederholm
New Riders Press, 2007
Excellent resource!
+ Even a experienced Web Designer can learn some thing new...
+ Great book
+ Useful techniques for everyday development
+ A good book but...
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Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design47 reviews
Jenifer Tidwell
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005
More Practical Concepts, Less Psychology
+ Visual examples for designing for Information Interchange
+ Excellent
+ A staple for your design library
+ Great interface component reference
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The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites (2nd Edition)24 reviews
Douglas K. van Duyne, James A. Landay, ...
Prentice Hall PTR, 2006
Effectively tackles all aspects of website design
+ Patterns for web interface design
+ Well laid out and explained
+ By Far the best Book on Designing winning web sites available
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About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design 9 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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Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points (VOICES) 36 reviews
37signals
New Riders Press, 2004
Common sense distilled
This book is a nice collection of what should be common sense rules (obviously common sense is not so common, as the examples of actual web sites in the book prove). I would assume that it would be most beneficial to a beginning designer, although it's a book everyone involved with web design or ...
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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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Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices (VOICES)13 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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Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action (Voices That Matter)14 reviews
Robert Hoekman Jr.
New Riders Press, 2008
Desiging the Moment makes my job 100% easier!
+ Advice from a Humble Yet Seasoned Web Designer
+ Good insight, doesn't go far enough
I recommend this book and Designing the Obvious to web designers, and burgeoning IA's . These two books combined take seemingly daunting but painfully simple interfaces and functionality and turn them into easy cheezy solutions that are plug-n-play ready to go! No matter what type of website you ...
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Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync?49 reviews
Seth Godin
Portfolio Hardcover, 2007
A Meatball Sundae is just what you need!
+ Interesting Book, but does it work for Architects (I know we're not his primary audience)?
+ Six Elements Review - 7.1/10
+ Essential Reading for Nonprofit Execs
+ Thinking Through Your Decisions
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Universal Principles of Design53 reviews
William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, ...
Rockport Publishers, 2003
Great knowledge reference
+ Great Book but.....
+ Fun to read & great presentation
+ EXCELENT!
+ good
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The Design of Everyday Things149 reviews
Donald A. Norman
Basic Books, 2002
A Must Read for every Designer
+ One of the best books any designer could read
+ Vey fast delivery very prompt service
As a human being we think we know other people and how they see and use products. This book tells many amusing anecdotes about products that were not successful because the designer made the things is a way he would have liked and not in the way real users use it. The book is written full of humor ...
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Thoughts on Interaction Design7 reviews
Jon Kolko
Brown Bear LLC, 2007
Chicken Soup for the Designer's Soul
+ heavy at the start, but better after chapter 3
+ Just tought it through the history lesson and then... WOW
+ Thoughts on
+ Compelling & Empowering
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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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Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies)11 reviews
Bill Buxton
Morgan Kaufmann, 2007
The value of design
+ But one can sketch in code too
+ If you're involved in design, read this book
+ Outstanding Book
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Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things30 reviews
Donald A. Norman
Basic Books, 2005
excellent!
+ A good read but it won't change how you think about design
+ a straightforward argument for considering the human in human-centered design
+ An interesting view about how products can change our lives
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Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design24 reviews
Robert Hoekman Jr.
New Riders Press, 2006
I want my whole team to read this!!
+ Good value: sensible, clear, readable
I love this book for it's brevity, clarity and simplicity. While everything in this book is obvious and common sense, it is still amazingly useful. You should not underestimate your minds ability to ignore and distort such obvious things, especially when we are emotionally invested in the ...
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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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Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World: Adaptive Path on Design ...17 reviews
Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, ...
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008
Provides basics for designing products for web software and competitive advantage alike
+ Subject to Change is a great book for shifting your mindset in customer service
+ Good choice for an intro to experience-led design
+ An excellent strategic overview of new product development practices
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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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