My Favourite Books
Mostly on HCI, interaction design, usability, information architecture, design process, but also some others that are my real favourites.
Start here:
- Hugh Beyer and Karen Holtzblatt, Contextual Design, Morgan Kaufmann (1998) * (a newer edition is avaiable)
- Mike Kuniavsky, Observing the User Experience, Morgan Kaufmann (2003) #
- Jesse James Garrett, The Elements of User Experience, New Riders (2003) (a newer edition is available)
Might want to read five of these next:
- Christopher Jones, Design Methods Seeds of Human Future, Wiley Interscience (1970)
- Bill Buxton, Sketching User Experiences, Morgan Kaufmann (2007)
- Deborah J. Mayhew, The Usability Engineering Lifecycle, Morgan Kaufmann (1999) *
- Edward Tufte, Envisioning Information, Graphics Press (1990) #
- Jakob Nielsen, Usability Engineering, Morgan Kaufmann (1993) *
- Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, About Face 2.0, Wiley (2003) * (Later editions available)
- Russell Beale, Alan J. Dix, Janet E. Finlay, Gregory D. Abowd, Human-Computer Interaction, Prentice Hall (1997) *
- Louis Rosenfield, Peter Morville, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, O'Rielly (2002) * (different edition!)
- Bill Moggridge, Designing Interactions, The MIT Press (2006) #
- Tom Kelly, The Art of Innovation, Currency Doubleday (2001) *
- Tom Kelly, Jonathan Littman, The Ten Faces of Innovation, Currency Doubleday (2005)
- Jeff Raskin, The Humane Interface, Addison Wesley (2000) *
- John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity, MIT Press (2006)*
- Donald Norman, The Design of Everyday Things, Basic Books, (1988)*
- Jeffrey Rubin, Handbook of Usability Testing, Wiley (1994) *
- Joseph Dumas, Janice Redish, Practical Guide to Usability Testing, ( ) $
- Designing interfaces : patterns for effective interaction design, Jennifer Tidwell, Oreilly (2005) *
- Joann Hackos, Janice Redish, User and Task Analysis for Interface Design, Wiley (1998) *$
- Ben Shneiderman, Designing the User Interface, Addison Wesley (2004) *
- Randolph Bias, Deborah Mayhew, Cost-Justifying Usability, Morgan Kaufmann (2005)
- Douglas van Duyne, James Landay, Jason Hong, The Design of Sites: Patterns for creating winning websites,
2nd edition, Prentice Hall (2006)*
Non-HCI / Design books that I suggest:
- Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens, Penguine Random House (2011)
- Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect, Basic Books (2018)
- Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, Penguin UK (2013)
- Scott McGloud, Understanding Comics, Harper Perennial (1994) *
- Apostolos Doxiadia, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth, Bloomsbury Publishing (2009)
- Rama Bijapurkar, We Are Like That Only, Penguin India (2016)
- Ruchir Sharma, Breakout Nations, Penguin Allen Lane (2012)*
- CK Prahlad, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Pearson Power (2006)*
- Tony Buzan, Barry Buzan, The Mind Map Book, BBC Worldwide Publishing (1993)
- Muhammad Yunus, Building Social Business, Perseus Books Group (2011)
- Geoffrey Moore, Crossing the Chasm, Harper Business (1999)
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow, Harper Perennial (1991)
Books on statistics:
- Tom Tullis, Bill Albert, Measuring the User Experience, Morgan Kaufmann (2008)
- Freedman, Purves, Pisani, Statistics, Viva Books, Fourth Edition (2011)
- Norman Kurtz, Introduction to Social Statistics, McGraw Hill Book Company (1983)
- Jeff Sauro, James R Lewis, Quantifying the User Experience: Practical Statistics for User Research, Morgan Kaufmann (2012)
More books
- Donald Norman, Emotional Design, Basic Books (2005) #
- Henry Dreyfuss, Designing for People, Allworth Press (1955)
- Rosalind Picard, Affective Computing, The MIT Press (1997) *
- Nandan Nilekani, Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century, Penguin India (2010)
* Book in IITB Central Library (please let me know if you find others)
# Book in IDC library
$ Book in KReSIT library
Web sites
More Books are at
http://hcibib.org/readings.html Mailing list http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hciidc/
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