User Experience Resources

This page highlights resources that we're exploring and recommend in the realm of user experience; we'll also use it to highlight content we create to help guide you in creating good UX. If you have something you think we should read, watch, listen to, etc. please feel free to share.

 

User Experience

Books:
  • Pruitt, John; Adlin, Tamara. (2006). The Persona Lifecycle: Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design. Morgan Kaufmann.
  • Buxton, Bill. (2007). Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design. Morgan Kaufmann.
  • Kuniavsky, Mike. (2003). Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research. Morgan Kaufmann.
  • Lidwell, William; Holden, Kritina; and Butler, Jill. (2003). Universal Principles of Design. Rockport Publishers, Inc.
  • Garrett, J. J. (2002). The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web. New Riders Press.
  • Alan Cooper's Books

Online Resources:
Patterns Catalogues:

Usability

  • Krug, S. (2005). Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (2nd Edition). New Riders Press.
  • useit.com - Jakob Nielsen's Site on Usability

Information Architecture


Information and Data Visualization/Design

  • information aesthetics
  • Tufte, Edward. (2006). Beautiful Evidence. Graphics Press.
  • Few, Stephen. (2006). Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data. O'Reilly.

User Interface Design


General Design

  • Boxes and Arrows
  • Alexander, Christopher. (1964). Notes on the Synthesis of Form. Harvard University Press.
  • Alexander, Christopher. (1979). The Timeless Way of Building. Oxford University Press, USA.
  • Norman, Donald A. (2004). Emotional Design: Why we love (or hate) everyday things. Basic Books.
  • Norman, Donald A. (1988). The Design of Everyday Things. Basic Books.

Software Development Methodology

  • Cockburn, A. (2001). Agile Software Development. Addison-Wesley Professional.
  • Evans, E. (2003). Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software. Addison-Wesley Professional.
  • Nilsson, J. (2006). Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET. Addison-Wesley Professional.
  • West, D. (2004). Object Thinking. Microsoft Press.

Popular Psychology

  • Gilbert, D. (2006). Stumbling on Happiness. Knopf.
  • Gladwell, M. (2005). Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. New York: Little, Brown and Company.