No interaction designer with a serious concern for usability (as is our want) should be allowed to graduate on to later readings on the topic of user-interface / UI design, UX / UE, human factors, or any related design field, without first reading Don Norman's book, The Psychology of Everyday Things...
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Book review of Information Dashboard Design, by Stephen Few. Published by O'Reilly, © 2006.
Information Dashboard Design, by Stephen Few, is, as he says himself, "above all else... a book about communication. It focuses exclusively on a particular medium of communication called a dashboard. ...
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Dan Saffer's first foray in to print publishing, Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices, is a tight little knit of a book. It starts from the beginning... well, the beginning of interaction design, and tours us through its evolution to the present. Here, for better...
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Jesse James Garrett began writing The Elements of User Experience - User-Centered Design For The Web in 2001. The date and title alone are poof of Garrett's thought leadership in the area of web design.
This important and nascent work was spawned by the popularity, as evidenced by tens of thousa...
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