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Kevin Arthur is a usability analyst working with touch interfaces at Synaptics in Santa Clara, CA. This blog is a personal project and the opinions here are strictly my own.
My other blog: Question Technology
Patrick W. Jordan: An Introduction To Usability
Decent overview of usability practice as defined from a human factors engineering perspective. It's a bit dated and way too pricey.
Nathan Shedroff: Design Is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable
Kim Goodwin: Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services
Dan Saffer: Designing Gestural Interfaces: Touchscreens and Interactive Devices
Very useful guidelines, history, and inspiration for anyone designing touchscreen and gestural interfaces.
Donald A. Norman: Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
Jeffrey Rubin and Dana Chisnell: Handbook of Usability Testing
Best up-to-date guidebook for usability practitioners.
John M. Carroll: HCI Models, Theories, and Frameworks: Toward a Multidisciplinary Science
Tom Tullis and Bill Albert: Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics
Excellent book on usability practice with emphasis on quantifying your results using metrics. Very useful for practitioners.
Indi Young: Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior
Joe Dumas and Beth Loring: Moderating Usability Tests: Principles and Practices for Interacting
Mike Kuniavsky: Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research
Great reference on user research methods.
Tom Igoe: Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers
Harold Thimbleby: Press On: Principles of Interaction Programming
Applies computer science principles to interaction design.
John Rhodes: Selling Usability: User Experience Infiltration Tactics
Excellent collection of tips for promoting and growing usability in your company.
Bill Buxton: Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design
Written for designers but relevant for usability too. Buxton knows a lot more about design, innovation, and HCI than you or I will ever know.
I. Scott MacKenzie and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii: Text Entry Systems: Mobility, Accessibility, Universality
Research-oriented, very useful for anyone contemplating a usability evaluation of a text-entry interface.
Donald A. Norman: The Design of Everyday Things
Classic HCI reference from a cognitive psychology perspective. You should read all of Norman's books, in my opinion.
Andrew Sears and Julie Jacko (eds): The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, Second Edition
Massive and comprehensive research reference.
Steve Hamm: The Race for Perfect: Inside the Quest to Design the Ultimate Portable Computer
Thomas K. Landauer: The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity
Deborah J. Mayhew: The Usability Engineering Lifecycle: A Practitioner's Handbook for User Interface Design
Useful reference for descriptions of all stages of design and usability within software development cycle.
Jakob Nielsen: Usability Engineering
Classic overview of the field and explanation of methods.
Carol Righi: User-Centered Design Stories: Real-World UCD Case Studies
Learn from other people's usability and UCD experiences. Contains lots of useful insights into how to relate to stakeholders and deal with company politics.
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