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Selected Flickr
Pink = highly recommended!
Information Appliances and Beyond
Eric Bergman ed. One of the best interaction design books to date. With case-studies on various design problems from Palm OS usability to Nokia contextual design issues. Just enough detail and anecdotes to get a good sense of design process.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
The Humane Interface
Jef Raskin. An absolutely essential book for anyone developing an interactive product. Raskin explains some excellent ideas for usable interfaces that are better suited to large file systems and the internet.
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Designing Visual Interfaces
Kevin Mullet, Darrell Sano. A useful book with plenty of visual examples on how to simplify and enhance desktop interfaces.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Dust or Magic: Secrets of Successful Multimedia Design
Bob Hughes. Somehow forgotten, this book gives a great overview for successfully designing rich multimedia interfaces.
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Reinventing the Wheel
Jessica Helfand. Plotting the history and design of information wheels, those interactive tools that can tell you the cooking time of an egg to the blast radius of a nuclear bomb.
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The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design
Brenda Laurel ed. A collection of dated (early 80s) essays that begin to see interface as a design discipline. Complex and theoretical.
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Designing the User Interface
Ben Shneiderman. Really thorough book, concentrating heavily on software interface design from a programming perspective.
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Bringing Design to Software
Terry Winograd. A dialogue around the design process in software development.
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Plans and Situated Actions
Lucy A. Suchman. A new approach to interaction design using new social science models.
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GUI Bloopers
Jeff Johnson. A lighthearted book highlighting common interface mistakes.
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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Alan Cooper. Really good ideas to solve common interface design issues. Cooper shows that the biggest problem in interaction design is that it is controlled by the developers and programmers, and advocates the need for interaction designers at every level of software production.
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Apple Human Interface Guidelines: The Apple Desktop Interface
Apple Computer. The original guidelines for developing MacOS GUI interfaces. The version for MacOS X can be downloaded from apple.
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