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Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it's hard to imagine anyone working in Web design who hasn't read Steve Krug's "instant classic" on Web usability, but people are still discovering it every day. In this second edition, Steve adds three new chapters in the same style as the original: wry and entertaining, yet loaded with insights and practical advice for novice and... (more)

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web

by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville

The post-Ajaxian Web 2.0 world of wikis, folksonomies, and mashups makes well-planned information architecture even more essential. How do you present large volumes of information to people who need to find what they're looking for quickly? This classic primer shows information architects, designers, and web site developers how to build large-scale and maintainable web sites that are appealing and easy to... (more)

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

by Edward R. Tufte

A modern classic. Tufte teaches the fundamentals of graphics, charts, maps and tables. "A visual Strunk and White" (The Boston Globe). Includes 250 delightfullly entertaining illustrations, all beautifully printed.

Envisioning Information

by Edward R. Tufte

A remarkable range of examples for the idea of visual thinking, with beautifully printed pages. A real treat for all who reason and learn by means of images. -- Rudolf Arnheim

Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

by David Weinberger

“Perfectly placed to tell us what’s really new about <the> second-generation Web.”— Los Angeles Times Business visionary and bestselling author David Weinberger charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended. In the digital world, everything has its places, with transformative effects: • Information is now a... (more)

Beautiful Evidence

by Edward R. Tufte

"Science and art," according to Tufte, "have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information." This book is about how that seeing turns into showing. Tufte, professor emeritus at Yale University and author of three previous widely praised books on visual evidence, displays outstanding examples of the genre. One of the most arresting is Galileo's series of hand-drawn images of... (more)

Ambient Findability

by Peter Morville

How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to your questions? What does it mean to be "findable" in this day and age? This eye-opening new book examines the convergence of information and connectivity. Written by... (more)

Designing Interfaces

by Jenifer Tidwell

Designing a good interface isn't easy. Users demand software that is well-behaved, good-looking, and easy to use. Your clients or managers demand originality and a short time to market. Your UI technology -- web applications, desktop software, even mobile devices -- may give you the tools you need, but little guidance on how to use them well. UI designers over the years have refined the art of interface design,... (more)

Communicating Design

Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning

by Daniel M. Brown

Most discussion about Web design seems to focus on the creative process, yet turning concept into reality requires a strong set of deliverables—the documentation (concept model, site maps, usability reports, and more) that serves as the primary communication tool between designers and customers. Here at last is a guide devoted to just that topic. Combining quick tips for improving deliverables with in-depth... (more)

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

by Edward R. Tufte

Describes design strategies - the proper arrangement in space and time of images, words, and numbers - for presenting information about motion, process, mechanism, cause, and effect. Examines the logic of depicting quantitative evidence.

Defensive Design for the Web: How to Improve Error Messages, Help, Forms, and Other Crisis Points

Defensive Design for the Web: How to Improve Error Messages, Help, Forms, and Other Crisis Points

by Matthew Linderman

This digital document is an article from Technical Communication, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2005. The length of the article is 587 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Defensive... (more)

The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web

The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web

by Jesse James Garrett

Smart organizations recognize that Web design is more than just creating clean code and sharp graphics. A site that really works fulfills your strategic objectives while meeting the needs of your users. Even the best content and the most sophisticated technology won't help you balance those goals without a cohesive, consistent user experience to support it. But creating the user experience can seem overwhelmingly... (more)

Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks

by Luke Wroblewski

Forms make or break the most crucial online interactions: checkout, registration, and any task requiring information entry. In Web Form Design, Luke Wroblewski draws on original research, his considerable experience at Yahoo! and eBay, and the perspectives of many of the field's leading designers to show you everything you need to know about designing effective and engaging web forms.

About Face 3

The Essentials of Interaction Design

by Robert Reimann, Dave Cronin, Alan Cooper

This completely updated volume presents the effective and practical tools you need to design great desktop applications, Web 2.0 sites, and mobile devices. You’ll learn the principles of good product behavior and gain an understanding of Cooper’s Goal-Directed Design method, which involves everything from conducting user research to defining your product using personas and scenarios. Ultimately, you’ll acquire the... (more)

The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman, Donald A. Norman, Donald A. Norman

Donald Norman's best-selling plea for user-friendly design, with more than 175,000 copies sold to date, is now a Basic paperback. First, businesses discovered quality as a key competitive edge; next came service. Now, Donald A. Norman, former Director of the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of California, reveals how smart design is the new competitive frontier. The Design of Everyday Things... (more)

About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design

About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design

by Alan Cooper

First published seven years ago-just before the World Wide Web exploded into dominance in the software world-About Face rapidly became a bestseller. While the ideas and principles in the original book remain as relevant as ever, the examples in About Face 2.0 are updated to reflect the evolution of the Web. Interaction Design professionals are constantly seeking to ensure that software and... (more)

Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web

Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web

by Christina Wodtke

All web sites have an architecture, whether you design one or not-just as every building has an architecture, from the lowly shanty by the railroad track to Chicago's tallest skyscraper. Unfortunately, most web sites are shanties, not skyscrapers. Companies that hastily threw up a web site in the dot-com boom days were visited by building inspector Jakob Neilsen, who told them their site should be condemned. But... (more)

Designing with Web Standards

by Jeffrey Zeldman

Best-selling author, designer, and web standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman has updated his classic, industry-shaking guidebook. This new edition--now in full color--covers improvements in best practices and advances in the world of browsers since the first edition introduced the world to standards-based design. Written in the same engaging and witty style, making even the most complex information easy to digest,... (more)

Information Architects

by Richard Saul Wurman, Peter Bradford, Press Graphis

Frankly, I have found most books about graphics in the information age to be riddled with hyperbole, poorly designed, and vastly overpriced. After looking at many of these books, I typically pull out my dog-eared copy of Edward Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative Information to clear my visual and conceptual palettes. However, Information Architects , edited by Richard Saul Wurman with contributions... (more)

Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research

Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research

by Mike Kuniavsky

The gap between who designers and developers imagine their users are, and who those users really are can be the biggest problem with product development. Observing the User Experience will help you bridge that gap to understand what your users want and need from your product, and whether they'll be able to use what you've created. Filled with real-world experience and a wealth of practical information, this book... (more)

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A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

by Steve Krug

by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville

by Edward R. Tufte

by Edward R. Tufte

by David Weinberger

by Edward R. Tufte

by Peter Morville

by Jenifer Tidwell

Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning

by Daniel M. Brown

by Edward R. Tufte

by Matthew Linderman

by Jesse James Garrett

by Luke Wroblewski

The Essentials of Interaction Design

by Robert Reimann, Dave Cronin, Alan Cooper

by Donald A. Norman, Donald A. Norman, Donald A. Norman

by Alan Cooper

by Christina Wodtke

by Jeffrey Zeldman

by Richard Saul Wurman, Peter Bradford, Press Graphis

by Mike Kuniavsky