Category: Reading
Design research books
What is a designer: things, places, messages
Norman Potter.
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Models and Constructs
Norman Potter.
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Design Research: Methods and Perspectives
Brenda Laurel Ed.
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Design Writing Research
Abbott Miller, Ellen Lupton.
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Screen
Jessica Helfand.
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Interaction design books
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.
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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.
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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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Adaptive design books
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
Christopher Alexander.
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The Nature of Order
Christopher Alexander.
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The Oregon Experiment
Christopher Alexander.
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A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein.
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The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher Alexander.
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How Buildings Learn
Stewart Brand.
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Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams
Mitchel Resnick.
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Steven Johnson.
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The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell.
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Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web
David Weinberger.
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Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
Howard Rheingold.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs.
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Adventures in Modeling: Exploring Complex, Dynamic Systems with StarLogo
Vanessa Colella, Eric Klopfer, Mitchel Resnick.
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A New Kind of Science
Stephen Wolfram.
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The Control Revolution
Andrew L. Shapiro.
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Society of Mind
Marvin Minsky.
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The Electric Meme
Robert Aunger.
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Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Sherry Turkle.
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The Virtual Community
Howard Rheingold.
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Design for Community
Derek M. Powazek.
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Community Building on the Web
Amy Jo Kim.
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Online Communities
Jenny Preece.
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Architecture theory books
City of Collective Memory
M. Christine Boyer.
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Breathing Cities: Visualizing Urban Movement
Nick Barley.
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Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture
Manuel Gausa.
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Rebuilding the Reichstag
Norman Foster.
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Towards a New Architecture
Le Corbusier.
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Architecture and Disjunction
Bernard Tschumi.
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Manhattan Transcripts
Bernard Tschumi.
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The Logic of Architecture
William J. Mitchell.
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Mobile: The Art of Portable Architecture
Jennifer Siegal ed.
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City of Bits
William J. Mitchell.
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E-topia
William J. Mitchell.
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Strangely Familiar
Iain Borden, Joe Kerr, Alicia Pivaro, Jane Rendell.
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Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino.
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The Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard, Etienne Gilson, John Stilgoe.
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De Stijl
Paul Overy.
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Fragments of Utopia
David Wild.
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Architects in Cyberspace
Neil Spiller, Martin Pearce.
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Design management books
Mastering the Requirements Process
Suzanne Robertson, James Robertson.
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Software Requirements
Karl E. Wiegers.
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Collaborative Web Development
Jessica Burdman.
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Web Redesign: Workflow that Works
Kelly Goto, Emily Cotler.
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Rapid Application Development
Steve McConnell.
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Information design books
Visual Function: An Introduction to Information Design
Paul Mijksenaar. A small, beautiful and polemical book full of fine examples of good information design, read this before tackling Tufte.
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward Tufte.
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Envisioning Information
Edward Tufte.
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Visual Explanations
Edward Tufte.
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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Nicholson Baker.
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Digital Diagrams
Trevor Bounford, Alastair Campbell.
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Open Here
Paul Mijksenaar and Piet Westendorp.
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Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
Robert L. Harris.
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Information Design
Robert E. Jacobsen.
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How to Lie With Statistics
Darrel Huff, Irving Geis.
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Information Visualization
Colin Ware.
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Readings in Information Visualization
Stuart Card, Jock Mackinlay, Ben Schneiderman.
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The Global Media Atlas
Mark Balnaves, James Donald, Donald Stephanie Hemelryk.
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The Atlas of the Future
Ian Pearson.
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The State of the World Atlas
Dan Smith.
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How Maps Work: Representation, Visualization and Design
Alan M. MacEachren.
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Usability books
The Design of Everyday Things
Donald Norman.
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Things That Make Us Smart
Donald Norman.
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The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience
Douglas K. Van Duyne, James Landay, Jason I. Hong.
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User-Centred Web Design
John Cato.
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Contextual Design: A Customer-Centered Approach to Systems Designs
Hugh Beyer, Karen Holtzblatt.
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User and Task Analysis for Interface Design
Joann Hackos, Janice Redish.
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Shaping Web Usability: Interaction Design in Context
Albert N. Badre.
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Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Websites
Andrew Chak.
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Handheld Usability
Scott Weiss.
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Web Accessibility for People With Disabilities
Michael G. Paciello.
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Design by People for People: Essays on Usability
Russell Branaghan.
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Designing Web Usability
Jakob Nielsen.
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Usability Engineering
Jakob Neilsen.
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Web Site Usability
Jared M. Spool.
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Don’t Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Steve Krug.
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Game design books
Rules of Play : Game Design Fundamentals
Katie Salen, Eric Zimmerman.
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Game Design
Bob Bates.
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Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design
Andrew Rollings, Ernest Adams.
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Game Architecture and Design
Andrew Rollings, Dave Morris.
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Game On
Lucien King.
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RE:Play
Liz Faber.
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Electronic Plastic
Jaro Gielens, Robert Klanten.
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Trigger Happy
Steven Poole.
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Brand and communication books
No Logo
Naomi Klein.
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The Guide to Identity
Wally Olins.
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Principles of Corporate Communication
Cees van Riel, Wally Olins.
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Brand New
Jane Pavitt ed.
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Strategic Brand Management
Jean-Noel Kapferer.
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Brand Manners
Hamish Pringle, William Gordon.
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Business and strategy books
The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from Ideo
Tom Kelley.
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The Innovator’s Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen.
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The Dream Society
Rolf Jensen.
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The Experience Economy
B. Joseph Pine.
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Experiential Marketing
Bernd H. Schmitt.
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