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Books (User Interface, Graphic, and Web Design)
Updated: February 23, 2010
The following list compiles selected books on user interface design, graphic design, and Web design. If the book title is a link the book has a companion Website or other online information is available for it.
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Cover Image |
Author(s) |
Year |
Publisher |
Topic |
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Aaland, Mikkel Photoshop for the Web |
1999 |
O'Reilly UK ISBN: B00006AVPR ASIN: 1565926412
|
Design: Web design |
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Abele, Petra; Hurtienne, Jörn; Prümper, Jochen Usability Management bei SAP-Projekten. Grundlagen – Vorgehen – Methoden (in German) |
2007 | Vieweg ISBN: 3834802441 |
Usability: Customizing |
 |
Arnowitz, Jonathan; Arent, Michael; Berger, Nevin |
2007 | Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 978-0120885688 |
Design: Prototyping |
Baxley, Bob |
2002 |
New Riders Publishing ISBN: 0735711968 |
Design: Web design, Web applications, Methodology |
|
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Bederson, Benjamin B.; Shneiderman, Ben The Craft of Information Visualization: Readings and Reflections |
2003 | Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 1558609156 |
Information: Information presentation |
 |
Berger, Nevin; Arent, Michael; Arnowitz, Jonathan; Sampson, Fred Effective Prototyping with Excel: A Practical Handbook for Developers and Designers (Interactive Technologies) |
2009 | Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 0120885824 |
Design: Prototyping |
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Beringer, Jörg; Holtzblatt, Karen Designing Composite Applications |
2006 | Galileo Press (SAP Press) ISBN: 1592290655 |
Design |
 |
Beyer, Hugh; Holtzblatt, Karen Contextual Design: A Customer-Centered Approach to Systems Designs |
1997 |
Academic Press ISBN: 1558604111 |
Usability: Methodology - Contextual design, User task analysis |
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Bødker, Keld; Kensing, Finn; Simonsen, Jesper Participatory IT Design |
2004 | The MIT Press ISBN: 026202568X |
General: IT Design |
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Bolter, Jay David; Gromala, Diane Windows and Mirrors : Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency |
2003 | MIT Press ISBN: 0262025450 |
Design: General |
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Borchers, Jan A Pattern Approach to Interaction Design |
2001 |
John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0471498289 |
Design: General |
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Buxton, Bill Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design |
2008 | Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 0123740371 |
Design |
 |
Card, Stuart; Mackinlay, Jock; Schneiderman, Ben Readings in Information Visualization |
1999 |
Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 1558605339 |
Information: Information presentation |
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Card, Stuart; Moran, Thomas; Newell, Allen The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction |
1983 (1986) | CRC ISBN: 0898598591 |
Usability: Modeling |
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Chen, Chaomei Information Visualization (2nd ed.) |
2006 | Springer ISBN-10: 184628340X |
Information: Information presentation |
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Chisnell, Dana; Rubin, Jeffrey Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests (2nd ed.) |
2008 | John Wiley & Sons ISBN-10: 0470185481 |
Usability: Testing |
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Cockburn, Alistair Writing Effective Use Cases |
2001 | Addison-Wesley ISBN: 0201702258 |
Usability: Methodology |
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Constantine, Larry L. Beyond Chaos: The Expert Edge in Managing Software Development |
2001 | Addison-Wesley ISBN: 0201719606 |
General |
 |
Constantine, Larry L.; Lockwood, Lucy A. D. Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage-Centered Design (ACM Press) |
1999 |
Addison-Wesley ISBN: 0201924781 |
Usability: Methodology - User task analysis |
 |
Cooper, Alan; Reimann, Robert M.; Cronin, Dave About Face 3.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design |
2007 |
John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0470084111 |
Usability: UI design |
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Cooper, Alan; Reimann, Robert M. About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design |
2003 |
John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0764526413 |
Usability: UI design |
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Cooper, Alan About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design |
1995 |
IDG Books Worldwide ISBN: 1568843224 |
Usability: UI design |
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Cooper, Alan; Saffo, Paul The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How To Restore The Sanity |
1999 |
Sams ISBN: 0672316498 |
General |
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Courage, Catherine; Baxter, Kathy Understanding Your Users – A Practical Guide to User Requirements Methods, Tools, and Techniques |
2004 | Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 1558609350 |
Usability: Methods |
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De Souza, Clarisse Sieckenius The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction |
2005 | MIT Press ISBN: 0262042207 |
General, Methodology |
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De Souza, Clarisse Sieckenius; Leitão, Carla Faria Semiotic Engineering Methods for Scientific Research in HCI |
2009 | Morgan & Claypool Publishers ISBN: 9781598299441 |
General, Methodology |
 |
Dunne, Anthony Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design |
2005 | MIT Press ISBN: 0262042320 |
General, Design |
 |
Esslinger, Hartmut A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business (German version: Schwungrat: Wie Design-Strategien die Zukunft der Wirtschaft gestalten) |
2009 | Jossey-Bass ISBN-10: 0470451025 German version: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH ISBN-10: 3527504923 |
General, Design |
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Few, Stephen Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data |
2006 | O'Reilly ISBN: 0596100167 |
Design, Information: Information presentation |
 |
Fishwick, Paul A. (Ed.) Aesthetic Computing |
2006 | The MIT Press ISBN: 026206250 |
Computer Science |
 |
Fowler, Susan; Stanwick, Victor Web Application Design Handbook: Best Practices for Web-Based Software |
2004 | Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 1558607528 |
Usability: Web application design |
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Fowler, Susan; Stanwick, Victor Gui Design Handbook (McGraw-Hill Series on Object Technology) |
1997 |
McGraw-Hill ASIN: 0070592748 |
Usability: UI design |
Fowler, Susan; Stanwick, Victor The GUI Style Guide |
1994 |
AP Professional ASIN: 0122635906 |
Usability: UI design |
|
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Fry, Ben Visualizing Data |
2008 | O'Reilly ISBN-10: 0596514557
|
Information: Information presentation |
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Gold, Rich The Plenitude: Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff |
2007 | The MIT Press ISBN-10: 0262072890 |
Design |
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Goodwin, Kim Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services |
2009 | Wiley ISBN-10: 0470229101
|
Design |
 |
Graham, Ian A Pattern Language for Web Usability |
2003 | Addison Wesley ISBN: 0201788888 |
Usability: Web design |
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Hackos, JoAnn Content Management for Dynamic Web Delivery |
2002 | John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 0471085863 |
Information: Information design |
 |
Hackos, JoAnn; Redish, Janice User and Task Analysis for Interface Design |
1998 |
John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0471178314 |
Usability: Methodology - User task analysis |
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Hiltunen, Mika; Laukka Mobile User Experience |
2002 | IT Press ISBN: 951826502X |
Usability: Mobile |
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Holtzblatt, Karen; Wendell, Jessamy Burns; Wood, Shelley Rapid Contextual Design: A How-to Guide to Key Techniques for User-Centered Design |
2004 | Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 0123540518 |
Usability: Methodology - Contextual design, User task analysis |
 |
Horton, Sarah |
2005 | New Riders Press ISBN: 032131140X |
Usability: Universal usability |
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Horton, William K. Designing and Writing Online Documentation: Hypermedia for Self-Supporting Products (2nd Edition) |
1994 | John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0471306355 |
Information: Information design Usability: Help and documentation |
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Horton, William K. The Icon Book: Visual Symbols for Computer Systems and Documentation |
1994 | John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0471599018 |
Design: Graphic design |
Jacobson, Robert (Ed.) Information Design |
2000 |
MIT Press ISBN: 0262600358 |
Information: Information design |
|
Johnson, Jeff GUI Bloopers 2.0: Common User Interface Design Don'ts and Dos |
2007 |
Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 0123706432 |
Usability: UI design |
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Johnson, Jeff Web Bloopers: 60 Common Web Design Mistakes and How To Avoid Them |
2003 |
Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 1558608400 |
Usability: Web design |
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Johnson, Jeff GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers |
2000 |
Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 1558605827 |
Usability: UI design |
|
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Kahn, Paul; Lank, Krysztof Mapping Web Sites (German version: Websites visualisieren) |
2001 | RotoVision SA ASIN: 2880464641 German version: Rowohlt ISBN: 3499612003 |
Design: Web design Information: Information presentation |
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Kaufman, James, C.; Sternerg, Robert, J. The International Handbook of Creativity |
2006 | Cambridge University Press ISBN 139780521838428 |
General |
 |
Kelley, Tom; Littman, Jonathan
|
2005 | Currency ISBN: 0385512074 (Hardcover) |
General: Innovation, Design |
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Kelley, Tom; Littman, Jonathan
|
2001 | Currency ISBN: 0385499841 (Hardcover) |
General: Innovation, Design |
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Khazaeli, Cyrus D. Systemisches Design (in German)
|
2005 | Rowohlt ISBN: 3499600781 |
Design: General |
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Köble, Josef Developing Accessible Applications with SAP NetWeaver German version: Entwicklung barrierefreier Software mit SAP NetWeaver |
2007 | Galileo Press (SAP Press) ISBN: 1592291120 ISBN: 978-1592292424 ISBN: 3898428621 |
Accessibility |
Kosslyn, Stephen M. Elements of Graph Design |
1993 1993 |
W. H. Freeman & Co ISBN: 0716722631 ISBN: 071672362X |
Information: Information presentation |
|
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Krug, Steve Don't Make Me Think |
2005 (2nd ed.) | New Riders ISBN: 0321344758 |
Usability: Web Usability |
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Kuniavsky, Mike Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research |
2003 | Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 1558609237 |
Usability: Methods |
 |
Landauer, Thomas, K. The Trouble With Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity |
1995 1996 |
MIT Press ISBN: 0262121867 ISBN: 0262621088 |
General |
 |
Laurel, Brenda (Ed.) Design Research: Methods and Perspectives |
2003 | MIT Press ISBN: 0262122634 |
Design: General |
 |
Lawson, Bryan How Designers Think
|
2005 | Architectural Press ISBN: 0-7506-6077-5 |
Design |
 |
Lazar, Jonathan Universal Usability |
2007 | Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 0470027274 | Usability: Universal usability |
 |
Lidwell, William; Holden, Kritina; Butler, Jill |
2003 | Rockport Publishers ISBN: 1592530079 |
Design: General |
 |
Löwgren, Jonas; Stolterman, Erik Thoughtful Interaction Design |
2004 | The MIT Press ISBN: 0262122715 |
Usability: UI design |
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Looking Good in Color: The Desktop Publisher's Design Guide | Ventana Communications Group Inc. ASIN: 1566042194 |
Design: Graphic design | |
 |
Maeda, John The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life
|
2006 | The MIT Press ISBN: 0262134721 |
General, Design |
 |
Mayhew, Deborah J. The Usability Engineering Life Cycle |
1999 |
Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 1558605614 |
Usability: UI design, Methodology |
 |
Mazza, Riccardo Introduction to Information Visualization |
2009 | Springer ISBN: 978-1848002180 |
Information: Information presentation |
 |
McCarthy, John; Wright, Peter Technology as Experience |
2004 | The MIT Press ISBN: 0262134470 |
General |
 |
McCullough, Malcolm Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing |
2004 | MIT Press ISBN: 0262134357 |
General |
 |
Mitchell, William J. The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era |
1994 | MIT Press ISBN: 0262631601 |
General |
 |
Moggridge, Bill |
2006 | MIT Press ISBN: 0262134748 |
Design |
 |
Mulder, Steven; Yaar, Ziv The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web |
2006 | New Riders Publishing ISBN-10: 0321434536 |
Usability: UI design, Personas |
 |
Nass, Clifford; Brave, Scott Wired for Speech: How Voice Activates and Advances the Human-Computer Relationship |
2005 | MIT Press ISBN: 0262140926 |
General |
 |
Nielsen, Jakob Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity |
1999 |
New Riders Publishing ISBN: 156205810X |
Usability: Web usability |
 |
Nielsen, Jakob Usability Engineering |
1994 |
Academic Press ISBN: 0125184069 |
Usability: UI design, Methodology |
 |
Norman, Donald A. The Design of Future Things |
2007 | Basic Books ISBN: 0465002277 |
General, Design |
 |
Norman, Donald A. Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things |
2003 (Hardcover) |
Basic Books ISBN: 0465051359 |
General, Design |
 |
Norman, Donald A. The Invisible Computer |
1998 1999 |
The MIT Press ISBN: 0262140659 ISBN: 0262640414 |
General, Design |
 |
Norman, Donald A. Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine |
1993 1994 |
Perseus Publishing ASIN: 0201581299 ISBN: 0201626950 |
General, Design |
 |
Norman, Donald A. The Design of Everyday Things |
1990, 1994 2002 |
Currency ASIN: 0385267746 MIT Press ASIN: 0262640376 Basic Books ISBN: 0465067107 |
General, Design |
 |
Olson, Gary M.; Zimmerman, Ann; Bos, Nathan (Eds.) |
2008 | The MIT Press ISBN: 0262151200 |
General |
 |
Pink, Daniel H. A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age |
2005 | Riverhead ISBN: 1573223085 |
General |
 |
Plattner, Hasso; Meinel, Christoph; Weinberg, Ulrich Design Thinking (in German) |
2009 |
mi-Wirtschaftsbuch ISBN-10: 3868800131 |
General: Innovation, Design |
 |
Preece, Jennifer; Sharp, Helen; Rogers, Yvonne |
2002 |
John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0471492787 |
Usability: UI design |
 |
Pullin, Graham Design Meets Disability |
2009 |
The MIT Press ISBN: 978-0262162555 |
Design, Accessibility, Universal Usability |
 |
Raskin, Jef The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems |
2000 |
Addison-Wesley ISBN: 0201379376 |
General |
 |
Reas, Casey; Fry, Ben Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists |
2007 | The MIT Press ISBN-10: 0262182629 |
Design |
 |
Reeves, Byron; Nass, Clifford The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places |
1996 1998 |
Cambridge University Press ASIN: 157586052X ISBN: 1575860538 |
General |
 |
Reynolds, Garr Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery |
2008 | Addison-Wesley Longman ISBN: 0321525655 |
General |
 |
Reynolds, Garr Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations |
2009 | New Riders Press ISBN: 0321668790 |
General Review in preparation |
 |
Rosenfeld, Louis; Morville, Peter Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Second Edition. |
2002 | O'Reilly ISBN: 0596000359 |
Information: Infomation design |
 |
Rubin, Jeffrey Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests |
1994 | John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0471594032 |
Usability: Testing |
 |
Runk, Claudia Grundkurs Typografie und Layout (in German) |
2006 | Galileo Design ISBN: 3898424065 |
Design: Typography |
 |
Saffer, Dan |
2009 | New Riders Press ISBN-10: 0321643399 |
Usability: UI design |
 |
Schumacher, Robert | 2009 | Morgan Kaufmann ISBN-10: 0123748526 |
Usability: User research |
 |
Shea, Dave; Holzschlag, Molly E. The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web (Voices That Matter) |
2005 | Addison Wesley ISBN: 0321303474 |
Design: Web design |
 |
Shneiderman, Ben; Plaisant, Catherine; Cohen, Maxine; Jacobs, Steven Designing the User Interface (5th Edition) |
2009
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Pearson Addison-Wesley ISBN-10: 0321537351
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Usability: UI design |
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Shneiderman, Ben; Plaisant, Catherine Designing the User Interface (4th Edition) |
2004 |
Pearson Addison-Wesley ISBN: 0321197680 |
Usability: UI design |
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Shneiderman, Ben |
2002 2003 |
The MIT Press ISBN: 0262194767 ISBN: 0262692996 |
General |
 |
Shedroff, Nathan Experience Design 1 |
2001 | New Riders Publishing ISBN: 0735710783 |
Design |
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Siegel, David Creating Killer Web Sites, Second Edition |
1997 |
MacMillan Publishing Company ISBN: 1568304331 |
Design: Web design |
 |
Snyder, Carolyn |
2003 |
Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 1558608702 |
Design: Prototyping |
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Solso, Robert L. Cognition and the Visual Arts |
1996 (1994) |
MIT Press ISBN: 0262691868 (Paperback, 1996) |
General, Design |
 |
Spence, Robert |
2007 | Prentice-Hall (Pearson) ISBN: 0132065509 |
Information: Information presentation |
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Spence, Robert Information Visualization |
2000 |
Addison-Wesley (ACM Press) ISBN: 0201596261 |
Information: Information presentation |
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Spool, Jared; DeAngelo, Terri; Scanlon, Tara; Schroeder, Will; Snyder, Carolyn Web Site Usability |
1998 |
Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 155860569X (Paperback) |
Usability: Web usability |
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Sterling, Bruce Shaping Things |
2005 | MIT Press ISBN: 0262693267 |
General, Design |
 |
Stiny, George Shape – Talking about Seeing and Doing |
2006 | MIT Press ISBN: 0262195313 |
Design |
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Stone, Debbie; Jarrett, Caroline; Woodroffe, Mark; Minocha, Shailey User Interface Design and Evaluation |
2005 | Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 0120884364 |
Usability: UI design |
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Thackara, John In the Bubble – Designing in a Complex World |
2005 | The MIT Press ISBN: 0262201577 |
General, Design |
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Thimbleby, Harold Press On: Principles of Interaction Programming |
2007 | The MIT Press ISBN-10: 0262201704 |
Design: UI design |
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Tidwell, Jenifer Designing Interfaces |
2005 | O'Reilly Media ISBN: 0596008031 |
Design: UI design |
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Tognazzini, Bruce Tog on Interface |
1992 |
Addison-Wesley ISBN: 0201608421 |
General |
 |
Tufte, Edward R. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative |
1997 |
Graphics Press ISBN: 0961392126 |
Information: Information presentation |
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Tufte, Edward R. Envisioning Information |
1990 |
Graphics Press ISBN: 0961392118 |
Information: Information presentation |
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Tufte, Edward R. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information |
1983 |
Graphics Press (1999) ISBN: 096139210X |
Information: Information presentation |
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Tullis, Tom; Albert, Bill Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics |
2008 | Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 0123735580 |
Usability: Testing |
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Van Duyne, Douglas K.; Landay, James A.; Hong, Jason I. The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience |
2002 | Addison-Wesley ISBN: 020172149X |
Design: Web design |
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Colin Ware Visual Thinking: For Design |
2008 | Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 0123708966
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Design, Visualization |
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Colin Ware Information Visualization, Second Edition: Perception for Design |
2004 | Morgan Kaufmann ISBN-10: 1558608192 |
Design, Visualization |
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Todd Zaki Warfel Prototyping – A Practitioner's Guide |
2009 | Rosenfeld Media ISBN: 978-1933820217 |
Prototyping |
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Weinman, Lynda Designing Web Graphics.4 |
2003 |
New Riders Publishing ISBN: 0735710791 |
Design: Web design |
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Weinman, Lynda; Weinman, William Creative HTML Design.2 |
2001 |
New Riders Publishing ISBN: 0735709726 |
Design: Web design |
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Weinman, Lynda; Lentz, Jon Warren Deconstructing Web Graphics.2 |
1998 |
New Riders Publishing ISBN: 1562058592 |
Design: Web design |
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Wenger, Etienne; Snyder, William M.; MacDermott, Richard Cultivating Communities of Practice |
2002 | Harvard Business School Press ISBN: 1578513308 |
General |
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Winograd, Terry (Ed.) Bringing Design to Software |
1996 |
Addison-Wesley ISBN: 0201854910 |
Design: Software design, UI design |
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