I have a few passions around books. In order of infatuation:
1 - User Experience (And that is the whole end-to-end... from User Interface, to web and back-end development, to user psychology and business strategy. The works.
2 - Anything about Information Graphics. If the book has cool diagrams within, I need it (It is a sickness, I...more »

I have a few passions around books. In order of infatuation:
1 - User Experience (And that is the whole end-to-end... from User Interface, to web and back-end development, to user psychology and business strategy. The works.
2 - Anything about Information Graphics. If the book has cool diagrams within, I need it (It is a sickness, I know).
3 - Architecture and its "making of"
4 - Design, the whole shebang: Industrial, graphic, interactive, motion.
5 - Art (specially sculpture and photography)
6 - Philosophy, and its evolution through history.
7 - History, and its evolution through philosophy.
8 - Reference books of all shorts and kinds. If it portrays a systematically (and exhaustively) catalogued anything... I am interested. (Napoleon's "Description de l'Egypte" a good example. Sears catalogue another one.)
9 - Graphic novels (a.k.a. Comics). Yes, the much derised "funnies". A see them as wonderful example of applied information graphics and bite-size philosophy (see both above).
10 - Gadgets and technology. As a remedy against lusting.
11 - Fiction, only in measure. Specially if Science is the prefix

This collection in Shelfari represents mostly my English collection... As the majority of my Spanish-language books (as well as the out-of-print) are not available yet online.

The rest of my time (not reading books) I architect Ask.com UX in San Francisco, CA

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