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About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Designby Alan Cooper, Robert M. Reimann, Alan About Face CooperISBN 0764526413 (0-7645-2641-3)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design'Book summary:"The following description is for the second edition of About Face. The 3rd Edtion, About Face 3 (ISBN 0470084111), is now available."
First published seven years ago-just before the World Wide Web exploded into dominance in the software world-About Face rapidly became a bestseller. While the ideas and principles in the original book remain as relevant as ever, the examples in About Face 2.0 are updated to reflect the evolution of the Web.
Interaction Design professionals are constantly seeking to ensure that software and software-enabled products are developed with the end-user's goals in mind, that is, to make them more powerful and enjoyable for people who use them. About Face 2.0 ensures that these objectives are met with the utmost ease and efficiency.
Alan Cooper (Palo Alto, CA) has spent a decade making high-tech products easier to use and less expensive to build-a practice known as "Interaction Design." Cooper is now the leader in this growing field. Mr. Cooper is also the author of two bestselling books that are widely considered indispensable texts. About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design, intro-duced the first comprehensive set of practical design principles. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum explains how talented people and companies continually create aggravating high-tech products that fail to meet customer expectations.Robert Reimann has spent the past 15 years pushing the boundaries of digital products as a designer, writer, lecturer, and consultant. He has led dozens of interaction design projects in domains including e-commerce, portals, desktop productivity, authoring environments, medical and scientific instrumentation, wireless, and handheld devices for startups and Fortune 500 clients alike. Joining Cooper in 1996, Reimann led the development and refinement of many goal-directed design methods described in About Face 2.0. He has lectured on these methods at major universities and to international industry audiences. He is a member of the advisory board of the UC Berkeley Institute of Design. [via]
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About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Designby Alan CooperISBN 1568843224 (1-56884-322-4)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design'Book summary:An excellent book for anyone who wants to understand why so much software is so poorly designed -- and an even better book for anyone who wants to DO something about the problem. Must reading (and doing!) for programmers of any level. [via]
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Art of Human-Computer Interface Designby Brenda Laurel, S. Joy MountfordISBN 0201517973 (0-201-51797-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Art of Interactive Design: A Euphonious and Illuminating Guide to Building Successful Softwareby Chris CrawfordISBN 1886411840 (1-886411-84-0)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Interactive Design: A Euphonious and Illuminating Guide to Building Successful Software'Book summary:[via]An understanding of what makes things interactive is key to the successful creation of websites, computer games, and software. In The Art of Interactive Design, Chris Crawford explains what interactivity is, how it works, why it's important, and how to design good software and websites that are truly interactive. Crawford's colloquial, conversational style makes it easy to grasp the fundamentals and the theoretical underpinnings of interactivity, as he discusses specific social and artistic issues.
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Artificial Reality IIby Myron W. KruegerISBN 0201522608 (0-201-52260-8)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Building Cocoa Applications : A Step by Step Guideby Simson Garfinkel, Michael K. MahoneyISBN 0596002351 (0-596-00235-1)
Softcover, O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
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CodeNotes for Web-Based UIby Gregory BrillISBN 0812992164 (0-8129-9216-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Creating Applications With Mozillaby David Boswell, Brian King, Eric Murphy, Ian Oeschger, Pete CollinsISBN 0596000529 (0-596-00052-9)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Defensive Design for the Web: How to Improve Error Messages, Help, Forms, and Other Crisis Pointsby 37 Signals, Jason FriedISBN 073571410X (0-7357-1410-X)
Softcover, New Riders Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Defensive Design for the Web: How to Improve Error Messages, Help, Forms, and Other Crisis Points'Book summary:Let's admit it: Things will go wrong online. No matter how carefully you design a site, no matter how much testing you do, customers still encounter problems. So how do you handle these inevitable breakdowns? With defensive design. In this book, the experts at 37signals (whose clients include Microsoft, Qwest, Monster.com, and Clear Channel) will show you how.
Defensive design is like defensive driving brought to the Web. The same way drivers must always be on the lookout for slick roads, reckless drivers, and other dangerous scenarios, site builders must constantly search for trouble spots that cause visitors confusion and frustration. Good site defense can make or break the customer experience.
In these pages, you'll see hundreds of real-world examples from companies like Amazon, Google, and Yahoo that show the right (and wrong) ways to get defensive. You'll learn 40 guidelines to prevent errors and rescue customers if a breakdown occurs. You'll also explore how to evaluate your own site's defensive design and improve it over the long term.
This book is a must read for designers, programmers, copywriters, and any other site decision-makers who want to increase usability and customer satisfaction.
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The Design of Everyday Thingsby Donald A. NormanISBN 0262640376 (0-262-64037-6)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Design of Everyday Things'Book summary:Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans--from physical objects to computer programs to conceptual tools--must read this book, and it is an equally tremendous read for anyone who has to use anything created by another human. It could forever change how you experience and interact with your physical surroundings, open your eyes to the perversity of bad design and the desirability of good design, and raise your expectations about how things should be designed. [via]
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Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interactionby Ben Shneiderman, Catherine PlaisantISBN 0321197860 (0-321-19786-0)
Hardcover, Allyn & Bacon
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction'Book summary:In revising this well-known book, Ben Shneiderman again provides a complete, current, and authoritative introduction to user-interface design. Students will learn practical techniques and guidelines needed to develop good systems designs - systems with interfaces the typical user can understand, predict, and control. This third edition features new chapters on the World Wide Web, information visualization, and computer-supported cooperative work. It contains expanded and earlier coverage of development methodologies, evaluation techniques, and user-interface building tools. The author provides provocative discussion of speech input/output, natural-language interaction, anthropomorphic design, virtual environments, and intelligent (software) agents. An associated booksite on the World Wide Web provides students with additional resources: http://www.aw.com/DTUI [via]
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Hardcover, Addison-Wesley - Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction: ISBN 0201694972 (0-201-69497-2)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley - Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction: ISBN 0321200586 (0-321-20058-6)
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Designing Interactionsby Bill MoggridgeISBN 0262134748 (0-262-13474-8)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Designing Interfacesby Jennifer TidwellISBN 0596008031 (0-596-00803-1)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniquesby Kevin Mullet, Darrell SanoISBN 0133033899 (0-13-303389-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Designing Web Usabilityby Jakob NielsenISBN 156205810X (1-56205-810-X)
Softcover, Peachpit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Designing Web Usability'Book summary:Creating Web sites is easy. Creating sites that truly meet the needs and expectations of the wide range of online users is quite another story. In Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, renowned Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen shares his insightful thoughts on the subject. Packed with annotated examples of actual Web sites, this book sets out many of the design precepts all Web developers should follow.
This guide segments discussions of Web usability into page, content, site, and intranet design. This breakdown skillfully isolates for the reader many subtly different challenges that are often mixed together in other discussions. For example, Nielsen addresses the requirements of viewing pages on varying monitor sizes separately from writing concise text for "scanability." Along the way, the author pulls no punches with his opinions, using phrases like "frames: just say no" to immediately make his feelings known. Fortunately, his advise is some of the best you'll find.
One of the unique aspects of this title is the use of actual statistics to buttress the author's opinions on various techniques and technologies. He includes survey results on sizes of screens, types of queries submitted to search portals, response times by connection type and more. This book is intended as the first of two volumes--focusing on the "what." The author promises a follow-up title that will show the "hows" and, based on this installation, we can't wait. --Stephen W. Plain
Topics covered: Cross-platform design, response time considerations, writing for the Web, multimedia implementation, navigation strategies, search boxes, corporate intranet design, accessibility for disabled users, international considerations, and future predictions. [via]
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Developing User Interfaces: Ensuring Usability Through Product & Processby Deborah Hix, H. Rex HartsonISBN 0471578134 (0-471-57813-4)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usabilityby Steve KrugISBN 0321344758 (0-321-34475-8)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach To The Web Usability'Book summary:Usability design is one of the most important though often least attractive tasks for a Web developer. In Don't Make Me Think, author Steve Krug lightens up the subject with good humour and excellent to-the-point examples.
The title of the book is its chief personal design premise. All of the tips, techniques and examples presented within it revolve around users being able to surf merrily through a well-designed site with minimal cognitive strain. Readers will quickly come to agree with many of the book's assumptions. For example, "We don't read pages--we scan them" and, "We don't figure out how things work--we muddle through". Getting to grips with such hard facts sets the stage for Web design that then produces top-notch sites.
Using an attractive mix of full-colour screen shots, cute cartoons and diagrams, and informative sidebars, the book keeps your attention and drives home some crucial points. Much of the content is devoted to proper use of conventions and content layout, and the "before and after" examples are superb. Topics such as the wise use of rollovers and usability testing are covered using a consistently practical approach.
This is the type of book you can blow through in a couple evenings. But despite its conciseness, it will give you an expert's ability to judge Web design. You'll never form a first impression of a site in the same way again. --Stephen W Plain [via]
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The Essential Guide to User Interface Design: An Introduction to Gui Design Principles and Techniquesby Wilbert O. GalitzISBN 0471084646 (0-471-08464-6)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Guide to User Interface Design: An Introduction to Gui Design Principles and Techniques'Book summary:- Well-designed graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for business systems can greatly increase user productivity, but designing them can be difficult and time consuming. This book walks developers through the basics of good interface design, using real-world examples from systems that are proven successes.
- Galitz is an internationally recognized consultant, author, and instructor with many years of experience with information systems and user interface design.
- Written especially for developers who may be designing user interfaces for the first time, but also extremely useful for any developer involved in GUI or Web site design.
- Revised to reflect the profound enhancements in interface design, specifically how Web page design has revolutionized interface design.
- New information covers a variety of platforms, both traditional and Web-based.
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The Geometry of Information Retrievalby C. J. Van Rijsbergen, C.J. Van RijsbergenISBN 0521838053 (0-521-83805-3)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Graphical User Interface Design and Evaluation: A Practical Processby Alan Moore, David Redmond-PyleISBN 013315193X (0-13-315193-X)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Graphical User Interface Design and Evaluation: A Practical Process'Book summary:This title describes a design process which can be used by practitioners in busy commercial environments called GUIDE - Graphical User Interface Design and Evaluation. It contains techniques (usability requirement specification, task modelling, object modelling, style guide definition, GUI design, prototyping, and evaluation), integrated together into a coherent framework. Tha material is intended for professional software developers. The book has been written by developers for developers and is designed to be user-centred in it's description of the development process. It also features the technique of user object modelling and shows how this is integrated with task analysis and GUI design. [via]
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Gui Bloopers: Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designersby Johnson. JeffISBN 1558605827 (1-55860-582-7)
Softcover, Morgan Kaufmann Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gui Bloopers: Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers'Book summary:In GUI Bloopers, consultant Jeff Johnson uses 550+ pages to illustrate common pitfalls in user interface design, the all-important iceberg tip that end users confuse with applications and that developers confuse with end users. Reporting on 82 incidents of bad design, Johnson manages to cover the essential point of his message: software designers should think of their user interfaces from the user's point of view. Not profound, but profoundly overlooked in most low-end to mid-range development efforts. His codification of GUI design in eight predictable principles will help GUI newbies realize that the customer must be pleased with the product. Of course, the customer doesn't always understand what he or she wants. Hence, GUI development is iterative. When the customer is not at hand, a surrogate will do, so usability testing is essential.
The bloopers include mistakes in window design, labeling consistency, visual/grammatical parallel construction, coherence of look and feel, and clarity. Most perceptively, Johnson observes that CPU speed in the development group hides many design mistakes. Moreover, context-scoping, already a subtle problem in software design, must be implemented in GUI design. Input error handling is the most psychologically sensitive of all GUI design characteristics. User error messages can easily be too vague or too specific, and diagnostic error messages should be user-manageable, if not actually user-interpretable.
Like the Hollywood outtakes that gave us the "blooper," the entertainment quotient here is measured in mistakes, not successes. Teaching by counter example rather than by example at an estimated ratio of three to one, Johnson panders to our invertebrate instinct to measure our own successes by someone else's failure. To his credit, he recognizes that user interfaces include pedestrian texts (like his) as well as graphical interfaces for computer applications. His self-referential style gives the book an egocentric slant, but he is both priest and practitioner: he submitted a draft to usability testers and reports the results in an appendix. One criticism was that there were too many negative examples. Hmmm.
Thanks to other tester comments, GUI Bloopers is a browsable book, allowing the few nuggets of wisdom to be located. For the most part, the book's value can be captured by reading the seven-page table of contents carefully. --Peter Leopold [via]
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Homepage Usability : 50 Websites Deconstructedby Jakob Nielsen, Marie TahirISBN 073571102X (0-7357-1102-X)
Softcover, New Riders Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homepage Usability : 50 Websites Deconstructed'Book summary:Most authors leave a significant gap between the theory and practice--a gap that it is left up to the reader to fill. Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed boldly steps into that gap with specific observations and suggestions backed with solid quantitative analysis. This book focuses only on homepage design as the most important point of presence for any Web site.
This definitive work is co-authored by Jakob Nielsen--the accepted industry expert in Web usability--and Marie Tahir, an expert in user profiling. Their collaboration has produced a guide of such rare practical benefit that Web designers will likely wear out their first copy scouring the pages to savour every last morsel of wisdom.
The book begins with a chapter of precise guidelines that serve as a checklist of the features and functionality to include on your homepage. The specifics found in categories such as "revealing content through examples" and "graphic design" will quickly hook you and whet your appetite for more. These guidelines are followed up with hard statistics and an examination of the ominous Jakob's Law: "users spend most of their time on other sites than your site." Here you'll find some interesting statistics about how various conventions like search, privacy policies, and logos are used.
All this leads up to the showcase element of the book--a systematic deconstruction of 50 of the most popular homepages on the Web. The authors painstakingly pick apart each in an uncompromising autopsy of usability. Each site is graphically analysed for its use of real estate and summarised with the frankness only found from true experts. Then each section of the homepage is bulleted and analysed for potential improvements.
It's a bold move to offer a critique of industry standard Web sites such as Yahoo, CNet and ebay but the authors have done such a fine job that the designers of those sites will surely make reading this book a high priority. For the rest of us, this work will serve as an invaluable gospel. --Stephen W Plain [via]
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Human Error in Computer Systemsby Robert W. BaileyISBN 0134450566 (0-13-445056-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systemsby Jef RaskinISBN 0201379376 (0-201-37937-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Hypergraphicsby Rotovision S. A., Roy McKelveyISBN 2880463130 (2-88046-313-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Icon Book: Visual Symbols for Computer Systems and Documentationby William HortonISBN 047159900X (0-471-59900-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Icon Book: Visual Symbols for Computer Systems and Documentation'Book summary:"The Icon Book" is available in three formats: Book Only Edition (ISBN: 047159900X); Diskette Only Edition (ISBN: 047102497X); Book w/ Diskette Edition (ISBN:0471599018). [via]
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Icon Design: Graphic Icons in Computer Interface Designby Steve CaplinISBN 0823025225 (0-8230-2522-5)
Softcover, Watson-Guptill Pubns
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In the Beginning...Was the Command Lineby Neal StephensonISBN 0380815931 (0-380-81593-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Beginning...Was the Command Line'Book summary:Neal Stephenson, author of the sprawling and engaging Cryptonomicon, has written a manifesto that could be spoken by a character from that brilliant book. Primarily, In the Beginning ... Was the Command Line discusses the past and future of personal computer operating systems. "It is the fate of manufactured goods to slowly and gently depreciate as they get old," he writes, "but it is the fate of operating systems to become free." While others in the computer industry express similarly dogmatic statements, Stephenson charms the reader into his way of thinking, providing anecdotes and examples that turn the pages for you.
Stephenson is a techie, and he's writing for an audience of coders and hackers in Command Line. The idea for this essay began online, when a shortened version of it was posted on Slashdot.org. The book still holds some marks of an e-mail flame gone awry, and some tangents should have been edited to hone his formidable arguments. But unlike similar writers who also discuss technical topics, he doesn't write to exclude; readers who appreciate computing history (like Dealers of Lightning or Fire in the Valley) can easily step into this book.
Stephenson tackles many myths about industry giants in this volume, specifically Apple and Microsoft. By now, every newspaper reader has heard of Microsoft's overbearing business practices, but Stephenson cuts to the heart of new issues for the software giant with a finely sharpened steel blade. Apple fares only a little better as Stephenson (a former Mac user himself) highlights the early steps the company took to prepare for a monopoly within the computer market--and its surprise when this didn't materialize. Linux culture gets a thorough--but fair--skewering, and the strengths of BeOS are touted (although no operating system is nearly close enough to perfection in Stephenson's eyes).
As for the rest of us, who have gladly traded free will and an intellectual understanding of computers for a clutter-free, graphically pleasing interface, Stephenson has thoughts to offer as well. He fully understands the limits nonprogrammers feel in the face of technology (an example being the "blinking 12" problem when your VCR resets itself). Even so, within Command Line he convincingly encourages us as a society to examine the metaphors of technology--simplifications that aren't really much simpler--that we greedily accept. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
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Information Appliances and Beyond: Interactive Design for Consumer Productsby Eric BergmanISBN 1558606009 (1-55860-600-9)
Softcover, Morgan Kaufmann Pub
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Information Architecture for the World Wide Webby Louis Rosenfeld, Peter MorvilleISBN 1600330150 (1-60033-015-0)
Hardcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Information Architecture for the World Wide Web'Book summary:[via]Today's web sites have moved far beyond "brochureware." They are larger and more complex, have great strategic value to their sponsors, and their users are busier and less forgiving. Designers, information architects, and web site managers are required to juggle vast amounts of information, frequent changes, new technologies, and sometimes even multiple objectives, making some web sites look like a fast-growing but poorly planned city-roads everywhere, but impossible to navigate. Well-planned information architecture has never been as essential as it is now.
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition, shows you how to blend aesthetics and mechanics for distinctive, cohesive web sites that work. Most books on web development concentrate on either the graphics or the technical issues of a site. This book focuses on the framework that holds the two together.
This edition contains more than 75% new material. You'll find updated chapters on organization, labeling, navigation, and searching; and a new chapter on thesauri, controlled vocabularies and metadata will help you understand the interconnectedness of these systems. The authors have expanded the methodology chapters to include a more interdisciplinary collection of tools and techniques. They've also complemented the top-down strategies of the first edition with bottom-up approaches that enable distributed, emergent solutions.
A whole new section addresses the opportunities and challenges of practicing information architecture, while another section discusses how that work impacts and is influenced by the broader organizational context. New case studies provide models for creating enterprise intranet portals and online communities. Finally, you'll find pointers to a wealth of essential information architecture resources, many of which did not exist a few years ago.
By applying the principles outlined in this completely updated classic, you'll build web sites and intranets that are easier to navigate and appealing to your users, as well as scalable and simple to maintain. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition is a treasure trove of ideas and practical advice for anyone involved in building or maintaining a large, complex web site or intranet.
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Information Architecture for the World Wide Web : Designing Large-Scale Web Sitesby Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Linda MuiISBN 1565922824 (1-56592-282-4)
Softcover, O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Information Architecture for the World Wide Web : Designing Large-Scale Web Sites'Book summary:In Chapter 6 of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, the authors discuss the details of good search-engine design. In a bitingly humorous segment, they analyze a Web site's search-page results: "Let's say you're interested in knowing what the New Jersey sales tax is.... So you go to the State of New Jersey web site and search on sales tax. The 20 results are scored at either 84% or 82% relevant. Why does each document receive only one of two scores?... And what the heck makes a document 2% more relevant than another?"
With a swift and convincing stroke, the authors of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web tear down many entrenched ideas about Web design. Flashy animations are cool, they agree, as long as they don't aggravate the viewer. Nifty clickable icons are nice, but are their meanings universal? Is the search engine providing results that are useful and relevant? This book acts as a mirror and with careful questioning causes the reader to think through all the elements and decisions required for well-crafted Web design. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
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Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication Of Databy Stephen FewISBN 0596100167 (0-596-10016-7)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication Of Data'Book summary:Dashboards have become popular in recent years as uniquely powerful tools for communicating important information at a glance. Although dashboards are potentially powerful, this potential is rarely realized. The greatest display technology in the world won't solve this if you fail to use effective visual design. And if a dashboard fails to tell you precisely what you need to know in an instant, you'll never use it, even if it's filled with cute gauges, meters, and traffic lights. Don't let your investment in dashboard technology go to waste.
This book will teach you the visual design skills you need to create dashboards that communicate clearly, rapidly, and compellingly. Information Dashboard Design will explain how to:
- Avoid the thirteen mistakes common to dashboard design
- Provide viewers with the information they need quickly and clearly
- Apply what we now know about visual perception to the visual presentation of information
- Minimize distractions, cliches, and unnecessary embellishments that create confusion
- Organize business information to support meaning and usability
- Create an aesthetically pleasing viewing experience
- Maintain consistency of design to provide accurate interpretation
- Optimize the power of dashboard technology by pairing it with visual effectiveness
Stephen Few has over 20 years of experience as an IT innovator, consultant, and educator. As Principal of the consultancy Perceptual Edge, Stephen focuses on data visualization for analyzing and communicating quantitative business information. He provides consulting and training services, speaks frequently at conferences, and teaches in the MBA program at the University of California in Berkeley. He is also the author of Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten.
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Information Designby Robert E. JacobsonISBN 0262600358 (0-262-60035-8)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Information Design'Book summary:foreword by Richard Saul Wurman
Information design is the newest of the design disciplines. As a sign of our times, when the crafting of messages and meaning is so central to our lives, information design is not only importantit is essential. Contemporary information designers seek to edify more than to persuade, to exchange more than to foist upon. With ever more powerful technologies of communication, we have learned that the issuer of designed information is as likely as the intended recipient to be changed by it, for better or worse.
The contributors to this book are both cautionary and hopeful as they offer visions of how information design can be practiced diligently and ethically, for the benefit of information consumers as well as producers. They present various methods that seem to work, such as sense-making and way-finding. They make recommendations and serve as guides to a still young but extraordinarily pervasiveand persuasivefield.
Contributors: Elizabeth Andersen, Judy Anderson, Simon Birrell, Mike Cooley, Brenda Dervin, Jim Gasperini, Yvonne M. Hansen, Steve Holtzman, Robert E. Horn, Robert Jacobson, John Krygier, Sheryl Macy, Romedi Passini, Jef Raskin, Chandler Screven, Nathan Shedroff, Hal Thwaites, Roger Whitehouse. [via]More editions of Information Design:
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Information Visualizationby Robert SpenceISBN 0201596261 (0-201-59626-1)
Hardcover, Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Information Visualization'Book summary:B> This is the first fully integrated book on the emerging area of information visualization, incorporating dynamic examples on an accompanying website to complement the static representations within the book. Its emphasis is on real-world examples and applications of computer-generated/interactive information visualization. Readers will learn how to display information to: pick out key information from large data streams; present ideas clearly and effectively; and increase the usability and efficiency of computer systems. It takes a dynamic approach to the subject using software examples on an associated website. This book is appropriate for readers interested in information visualization, human-computer interaction, business information technology, and computer graphics [via]
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The Inmates Are Running the Asylumby Alan CooperISBN 0672316498 (0-672-31649-8)
Hardcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanityby Alan CooperISBN 0672326140 (0-672-32614-0)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity'Book summary:In this book about the darker side of technology's impact on our lives, Alan Cooper begins by explaining that unlike other devices throughout history, computers have a "meta function:" an unwanted, unforeseen option that users may accidentally invoke with what they thought was a normal keystroke. Cooper details many of these meta functions to explain his central thesis: programmers need to seriously reevaluate the many user-hostile concepts deeply embedded within the software development process.
Rather than provide users with a straightforward set of options, programmers often pile on the bells and whistles and ignore or deprioritize lingering bugs. For the average user, increased functionality is a great burden, adding to the recurrent chorus that plays, "computers are hard, mysterious, unwieldy things." (An average user, Cooper asserts, who doesn't think that way or who has memorized all the esoteric commands and now lords it over others, has simply been desensitized by too many years of badly designed software.)
Cooper's writing style is often overblown, with a pantheon of cutesy terminology (i.e., "dancing bearware") and insider back-patting. (When presenting software to Bill Gates, he reports that Gates replied: "How did you do that?" to which he writes, "I love stumping Bill!") More seriously, he is also unable to see beyond software development's importance--a sin he accuses programmers of throughout the book.
Even with that in mind, the central questions Cooper asks are too important to ignore: Are we making users happier? Are we improving the process by which they get work done? Are we making their work hours more effective? Cooper looks to programmers, business managers, and what he calls "interaction designers" to question current assumptions and mindsets. Plainly, he asserts that the goal of computer usage should be "not to make anyone feel stupid." Our distance from that goal reinforces the need to rethink entrenched priorities in software planning. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
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Inside Microsoft Visual Studio.Net.by Brian Johnson, Craig Skibo, Marc YoungISBN 0735618747 (0-7356-1874-7)
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Inside Taligent Technologyby Sean Cotter, Michael J. PotelISBN 0201409704 (0-201-40970-4)
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Interactive Multimedia: Visions of Multimedia for Developers, Educators, & Information Providersby Sueann Ambron, Kristina HooperISBN 1556151241 (1-55615-124-1)
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Interactivity by Designby Ray Kristof, Amy SatranISBN 1568302215 (1-56830-221-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interactivity by Design'Book summary:This book is an excellent guide for marketing, communications, and other professionals who need to develop a CD-ROM, kiosk, or Web site. Amy Satran and Ray Kristof make an intelligent distinction between information design, interaction design, and presentation design, discussing such issues as audience research, resource planning, image maps, navigation, storyboard and prototype production, and final output. The presentation design section is key, providing non-designers with a primer on working with resolution and color within the constraints of Web and CD delivery. There is also instruction on devising coherent and consistent style and layout. Get this book if you need to learn what's going on with new media quickly. [via]
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Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex and Information Applicances Are the Solutionby Donald A. NormanISBN 0262640414 (0-262-64041-4)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex and Information Applicances Are the Solution'Book summary:Currently, computer users must navigate a sea of guidebooks, frequently asked questions (FAQs), and wizards to perform a task such as searching the Web or creating a spreadsheet. While Donald Norman acknowledges that the personal computer allows for "flexibility and power," he also makes its limitations perfectly clear. "The personal computer is perhaps the most frustrating technology ever," he writes. "It should be quiet, invisible, unobtrusive." His vision is that of the "information appliance," digital tools created to answer our specific needs, yet interconnected to allow communication between devices.
His solution? "Design the tool to fit so well that the tool becomes a part of the task." He proposes using the PC as the infrastructure for devices hidden in walls, in car dashboards, and held in the palm of the hand. A word of caution: some of Norman's zealotry leads to a certain creepiness (global positioning body implants) and goofiness (electric-power-generating plants in shoes). His message, though, is reasonably situated in the concept that the tools should bend to fit us and our goals: we sit down to write, not to word process; to balance bank accounts, not to fill in cells on a spreadsheet. In evenly measuring out the future of humanity's technological needs--and the limitations of the PC's current incarnation--Norman presents a formidable argument for a renaissance of the information appliance. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
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Learning With Interactive Multimedia: Developing and Using Multimedia Tools in Educationby Sueann Ambron, Kristina HooperISBN 1556152825 (1-55615-282-5)
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Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technologyby David GelernterISBN 046504316X (0-465-04316-X)
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Magic Cap Complete: The Official Guide to All the Capabilities of Your Magic Cap Communicatorby General MagicISBN 0201489481 (0-201-48948-1)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magic Cap Complete: The Official Guide to All the Capabilities of Your Magic Cap Communicator'Book summary:Magic Cap(tm) is the software from General Magic that's designed to help youkeep in touch by integrating electronic messaging, fax, telephone, paging, andother ways of communicating. Magic Cap is built into personal intelligentcommunicators, manufactured by the world's leading consumer electronics andcommunication companies, such as the Sony Magic Link and the MotorolaEnvoy . There's also a version that runs on most personal computers. The documentation that accompanies these communicators covers only a fractionof what Magic Cap can do. Magic Cap Complete is the officialguide to all the details you need to make full use of your communicator.You'll learn all the features, steps, and shortcuts for sending electronicmessages, organizing your information, accessing on-line services, and more.With Magic Cap Complete, you'll: * get an introduction to your communicator and get started exploring Magic Capsoftware * learn everything you need to know to use Magic Cap to communicate with thepeople in your life * discover all the different ways that your communicator can help keep yourlife running smoothly * find out how information is stored in your Magic Cap communicator and whatyou can do to protect that information * discover the many ways that you can customize Magic Cap, and make yours atruly personal communicator * get updated information about the new features in Magic Cap Version 1. 5, thelatest Magic Cap software. With Magic Cap Complete, you'll become an expert with your MagicCap communicator!General Magic, Inc. formed an alliance that includes Apple, Sony,Motorola, AT&T, Philips, Matsushita, NTT, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi,France Telecomm, Cable & Wireless, Sanyo, Northern Telecomm, and Oki, forthe purpose of developing a software environment for personal communicators andelectronic messaging services. 0201489481B04062001 [via]
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Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishingby Philip GreenspunISBN 1558605347 (1-55860-534-7)
Softcover, Elsevier Science Ltd
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Principles and Guidelines in Software User Interface Designby Deborah J. MayhewISBN 0137219296 (0-13-721929-6)
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Principles of Interactive Computer Graphicsby William M. Newman, Robert F. SproullISBN 0070463379 (0-07-046337-9)
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The Psychology of Everyday Thingsby Donald A. NormanISBN 0465067093 (0-465-06709-3)
Hardcover, Perseus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Psychology of Everyday Things'Book summary:With the many recent advances in technology, it seems, there has followed a diminution of quality. Electronic books have several advantages over their print counterparts, for instance. But for the time being, they're hard to use and unattractive to boot. Computers, which are supposed to make our lives easier, are commonly sources of frustration and wasted time. Movies are wondrously chock-a-block with special effects--but someone forgot the story. And so on.
Donald Norman, a retired professor of cognitive science, is bothered to no end by the fact that grappling with unfriendly objects now takes up so many of our hours. Over the course of several books, of which The Psychology of Everyday Things was the first, he has railed against bad design. He scrutinizes a range of artifacts that are supposed to make our daily living a little easier, and he finds most of them wanting. Why, he asks, does a door need instructions that say "push" or "pull"? A well-designed object, he argues, is self-explanatory. But well-designed objects are increasingly rare, for the present culture places a higher value on aesthetics than utility, even with such items as cordless screwdrivers, dresser drawers, and kitchen cabinets. In their concern for creating "art," many designers don't seem to consider what people actually do with things. Such disregard, Norman suggests, leads to few objects being standardized: think of all the different kinds of unsynchronized clocks that lurk in microwave ovens, VCRs, coffee makers, and the like--and of all the different kinds of batteries needed to drive them. Why, he wonders, must we reset all those clocks whenever the power goes off? Some designer somewhere, he ventures, ought to develop a master clock that communicates with all other electric clocks in a home--one that, when reset, synchronizes its slave units.
You don't need to be especially interested in technological matters to enjoy Norman's arguments. The book's underlying question is aimed at a global audience: will the design of everyday things improve? If this entertaining and, yes, well-designed book changes even a few minds, perhaps it will. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Rapid Application Development With Mozillaby Nigel McFarlaneISBN 0131423436 (0-13-142343-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall Ptr
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Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer and Information Systemsby Ben ShneidermanISBN 0876268165 (0-87626-816-5)
Hardcover, Winthrop Publishers
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Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites That Workby Darren Gergle, Tom Brinck, Scott D. WoodISBN 1558606580 (1-55860-658-0)
Softcover, Morgan Kaufmann Pub
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Every stage in the design of a new web site is an opportunity to meet or miss deadlines and budgetary goals. Every stage is an opportunity to boost or undercut the site's usability.
This book tells you how to design usable web sites in a systematic process applicable to almost any business need. You get practical advice on managing the project and incorporating usability principles from the project's inception. This systematic usability process for web design has been developed by the authors and proven again and again in their own successful businesses.
A beacon in a sea of web design titles, this book treats web site usability as a preeminent, practical, and realizable business goal, not a buzzword or abstraction. The book is written for web designers and web project managers seeking a balance between usability goals and business concerns.
* Examines the entire spectrum of usability issues, including architecture, navigation, graphical presentation, and page structure.
* Explains clearly the steps relevant to incorporating usability into every stage of the web development process, from requirements to tasks analysis, prototyping and mockups, to user testing, revision, and even postlaunch evaluations.
* Includes forms, checklists, and practical techniques that you can easily incorporate into your own projects at http://www.mkp.com/uew/. [via]More editions of Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites That Work:
Usability Testing for Library Websites: A Hands-On Guideby Cm Winters, Elaina NorlinISBN 0838935117 (0-8389-3511-7)
Softcover, Amer Library Assn
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User Interface Design: A Software Engineering Perspectiveby Soren LauesenISBN 0321181433 (0-321-18143-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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User Interface Design And Evaluationby Mark Woodroffe, Debbie Stone, Caroline Jarrett, Shailey Minocha, Deborah L. StoneISBN 0120884364 (0-12-088436-4)
Softcover, Morgan Kaufmann Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'User Interface Design And Evaluation'Book summary:Whether you are a professional new to the user-centered design field, or an experienced designer who needs to learn the fundamentals of user interface design and evaluation, this book can lead the way.
What will you get from this book? Based on a course from the Open University, UK which has been taught to over a thousand professionals and students, this book presents an overview of the field. It illustrates the benefits of a user-centered approach to the design of software, computer systems, and web sites, and provides a clear and practical discussion of requirements gathering; developing interaction design from user requirements; and user interface evaluation. The book's coverage includes established HCI topics-for example, visibility, affordance, feedback, metaphors, mental models, and the like-combined with practical guidelines for contemporary designs and current trends, which makes for a winning combination. You get a clear presentation of ideas, illustrations of concepts, using real-world applications.
This book will help you develop all the skills necessary for iterative user-centered design, and provides a firm foundation for user interface design and evaluation on which to build.
* Co-published by the Open University, UK.
* Covers the design of graphical user interfaces, web sites, and interfaces for embedded systems.
* Full color production, with activities, projects, hundreds of illustrations, and industrial applications.
* A supporting web site includes sample exam paper, numerous activities to practice the concepts learned, and a set of review questions to test your own learning-plus web resources. [via]More editions of User Interface Design And Evaluation:
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User Interface Design for Programmersby Joel SpolskyISBN 1893115941 (1-893115-94-1)
Softcover, Apress L. P.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'User Interface Design for Programmers'Book summary:Most programmers' fear of user interface (UI) programming comes from their fear of doing UI design. They think that UI design is like graphic designthe mysterious process by which creative, latte-drinking, all-black-wearing people produce cool-looking, artistic pieces. Most programmers see themselves as analytic, logical thinkers insteadstrong at reasoning, weak on artistic judgment, and incapable of doing UI design.
In this brilliantly readable book, author Joel Spolsky proposes simple, logical rules that can be applied without any artistic talent to improve any user interface, from traditional GUI applications to websites to consumer electronics. Spolsky's primary axiom, the importance of bringing the program model in line with the user model, is both rational and simple.
In a fun and entertaining way, Spolky makes user interface design easy for programmers to grasp. After reading User Interface Design for Programmers, you'll know how to design interfaces with the user in mind. You'll learn the important principles that underlie all good UI design, and you'll learn how to perform usability testing that works.
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User-Centered Web Site Development: A Human-Computer Interaction Approachby Daniel D. McCracken, Rosalee J. WolfeISBN 0130411612 (0-13-041161-2)
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Informationby Edward R. TufteISBN 0961392142 (0-9613921-4-2)
Hardcover, Graphics Pr
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Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrativeby Edward R. TufteISBN 0961392126 (0-9613921-2-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative'Book summary:With Visual Explanations, Edward R. Tufte adds a third volume to his indispensable series on information display. The first, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, which focuses on charts and graphs that display numerical information, virtually defined the field. The second, Envisioning Information, explores similar territory but with an emphasis on maps and cartography. Visual Explanations centers on dynamic data--information that changes over time. (Tufte has described the three books as being about, respectively, "pictures of numbers, pictures of nouns, and pictures of verbs.")
Like its predecessors, Visual Explanations is both intellectually stimulating and beautiful to behold. Tufte, a self-publisher, takes extraordinary pains with design and production. The book ranges through a variety of topics, including the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger (which could have been prevented, Tufte argues, by better information display on the part of the rocket's engineers), magic tricks, a cholera epidemic in 19th-century London, and the principle of using "the smallest effective difference" to display distinctions in data. Throughout, Tufte presents ideas with crystalline clarity and illustrates them in exquisitely rendered samples. [via]
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Websites That Workby Roger BlackISBN 1568303467 (1-56830-346-7)
Softcover, Pearson Education Canada
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