Books
The Elements of User Experience
by: Jessie James Garrett Smart organizations recognize that Web design is more than just creating clean code and sharp graphics. A site that really works fulfills your strategic objectives while meeting the needs of your users. Even the best content and the most sophisticated technology won't help you balance those goals without a cohesive, consistent user experience to support it. |
Don't Make Me Think
by: Steve Krug "The book's premise is that a good program or web site should let users accomplish their intended tasks as easily and directly as possible. Krug points out that people are good at satisficing, or taking the first available solution to their problem, so design should take advantage of this." |
Build fast, Build right
by: Andrew Sherman "For companies of all sizes trying to navigate the challenges of a rapidly changing marketplace. This book takes readers through the three distinct stages of their entrepreneurial journey: starting out, building a company, and growing a successful business." |
About Face 3
by: Alan Cooper "This completely updated volume presents the effective and practical tools you need to design great desktop applications, Web 2.0 sites and mobile devices. This book will teach you the principles of good product behavior and introduce you to Cooper's Goal-Directed Design, from conducting user research to defining your product's interaction using personas and scenarios. In short, About Face 3 will show you how to design the best possible digital products and services." |
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The Inmates are Running the Aslym
by: Alan Cooper "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum argues that, despite appearances, business executives are simply not the ones in control of the high-tech industry. They have inadvertently put programmers and engineers in charge, leading to products and processes that waste huge amounts of money, squander customer loyalty, and erode competitive advantage." |
Information Architecture
by: Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville "Want to design distinctive, cohesive web sites that "work"? This bestseller teaches you how to blend aesthetics and mechanics for web sites and intranets that are easy to navigate and appealing to your users, scalable and simple to maintain. Most books on web development concentrate on either the graphics or the technical issues of a site." |
Prioritizing Web Usability
by: Jakob Nielson "After more than a decade of Web usability research, we literally have thousands of guidelines for making better websites. But what are the most important ones that all designers need to know? A second goal of the book is to update the early Web usability guidelines..." |
The Online Advertising Playbook
by: Joe Plummer, Steve Rappaport, Taddy Hall, Robert Barocci A great insightful book that uses case studies and true to live examples of what works and what doesn't in an online environment. Literally play-by-play. |
