I asked the LA User Experience group for information architecture book recommendations, and got this lengthly, rather complete list of books covering information usability, design, findability, business, and more. I already own the popular suggestions, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Designing Interactions, as well as two others. I’m working through this list to get more insight into what others think about designing the “perfect” product. After this, I’ll probably start digging into landing page books since it’s such an important subject in this search-engine bootstrapped world.
- The Inmates Are Running the Asylum – Alan Cooper
- Don’t Make Me Think – Steve Krug
- Designing Business – Clement Mok
- Communicating Design – Dan Brown
- Thoughts on Interaction Design – John Kolko
- The Design of Everyday Things – Don Norman
- About Face 2.0 (or other editions) – Cooper and Reimann
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web – Rosenfeld and Morville. The polar bear book!
- Designing Interfaces – Jennifer Tidwell
- Observing the User Experience – Mike Kuniavsky
- Ambient Findability – Peter Morville
- The Elements of User Experience: User-centered Design for the Web -Jesse James Garrett
- Web Navigation: Designing the User Experience – Jennifer Fleming
- Web Site Design Goodies – Joe Burns
- Universal Principles of Design – Lidwell
- Observing the User Experience – Kuniavsky
- User and Task Analysis for Interface Design – Hackos
- Web Redesign 2.0 – Workflow That Works” – Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler
- Contextual Design – Hugh Beyer and Karen Holtzblatt
Many thanks for those who contributed to this list, including Jonathan Lane, Lynn Boyden, Bonnie Bouman, Christopher, Weston Thompson, Christian Sosa-Lanz, Kathy Mirescu, Alexis, Eduardo Sciammarella, and Monique Escamilla.
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