Interface Design Books


Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd EditionDon't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
Best Price: $22.60
This book is excellent -- simple, straightforward and very accessible itself. As someone with...
Web Analytics: An Hour a DayWeb Analytics: An Hour a Day
Best Price: $16.00
This book is amazing. If you think you knew everything or are in an analysis slump, just flip...
Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered WebsiteJoomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website
Best Price: $26.44
If you are looking for a well written book about Joomla then this is the one. I read it from...
Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction DesignDesigning Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design
Best Price: $28.92
Designing Interfaces catalogs UI design patterns in use and provides guidance in using them,...
World of Warcraft Programming: A Guide and Reference for Creating WoW AddonsWorld of Warcraft Programming: A Guide and Reference for Creating WoW Addons
Best Price: $21.12
If you ever wanted to make your own add on's for the wonderful game of WoW then this book is for...


CSS: The Definitive GuideCSS: The Definitive Guide
Best Price: $24.94
Before purchasing this book, I had purchased about a half dozen books on css, one from the same...
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web SitesInformation Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
Best Price: $21.83
This is a perfectly good resource, if you're looking for the theoretical underpinnings of how IA...
Sketching User Experiences:  Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies)Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies)
Best Price: $31.32
This is a compelling book. It manages to blend business, organizational and design thinking on...
Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works (Interactive Technologies) (Interactive Technologies) (Interactive Technologies)Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works (Interactive Technologies) (Interactive Technologies) (Interactive Technologies)
Best Price: $31.23
This book should be considered required reading for anyone designing and developing sites. ...
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction DesignAbout Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
Best Price: $14.91
Scoring in the game of interaction design is very simple. You get 0 points for discovering the...


Learning the vi and Vim EditorsLearning the vi and Vim Editors
Best Price: $19.58
vi, like many of the utilities developed during the early years of Unix, has a reputation for...
Programming WPFProgramming WPF
Best Price: $28.29
I bought the first edition of this book called Programming Windows Presentation Foundation (AKA...
Visualizing DataVisualizing Data
Best Price: $22.88
I'm short of superlatives for this book or more generally for the work of Ben Fry. In my...
Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application DesignDesigning the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design
Best Price: $20.99
I love this book for it's brevity, clarity and simplicity. While everything in this book is...
Core JavaServer(TM) Faces (2nd Edition) (Sun Core Series)Core JavaServer(TM) Faces (2nd Edition) (Sun Core Series)
Best Price: $29.98
this book have not reached the intended recipient till now(7/24/2008)expected date of delivery...

Prioritizing Web Usability (VOICES)Prioritizing Web Usability (VOICES)
Best Price: $26.50
This book validates things I've have known for years and guarantees I have been on the right...
Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User ExperienceDesigning Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience
Best Price: $24.95
The ability to navigate a web site can make or break your user's experience. I learned far more...
Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World: Adaptive Path on Design (Adaptive Path)Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World: Adaptive Path on Design (Adaptive Path)
Best Price: $13.00
I think I had the essence of this book by the time I got to page 30: Times have changed, and...
Big Book of Apple Hacks: Tips & Tools for unlocking the power of your Apple devices (Hacks)Big Book of Apple Hacks: Tips & Tools for unlocking the power of your Apple devices (Hacks)
Best Price: $20.74
The big book of apple hacks came with repeated pages. The book started at page twenty something...
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the SanityThe Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
Best Price: $10.00
The Inmates Are Running The Asylum starts off pretty well. It begins with some very good...

The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web (VOICES)The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web (VOICES)
Best Price: $20.68
Anyone is the field could see that this book is rather "blah" There is better...
Advanced Rails RecipesAdvanced Rails Recipes
Best Price: $22.09
It's simple, really: If you're programming with Rails you should buy this book. Let's face it,...
C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4 (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series)C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4 (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series)
Best Price: $43.95
Trolltech recommends this book as the best way to get started learning QT4. I cannot imagine...
Designing Web Usability (VOICES)Designing Web Usability (VOICES)
Best Price: $6.77
You wont find anything in this book what general common sense already told you. Besides it's...
Actionable Web Analytics: Using Data to Make Smart Business DecisionsActionable Web Analytics: Using Data to Make Smart Business Decisions
Best Price: $8.27
This book is great for CMOs or marketing decision makers who are looking to incorporate web...

Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer InteractionInteraction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction
Best Price: $42.06
I would prefer to give this book 1 or 2 stars, but to be fair, I am giving it 3 stars. I just...
How to Do Everything with Second Life? (How to Do Everything)How to Do Everything with Second Life? (How to Do Everything)
Best Price: $13.74
I actually created a second life account and canceled it because of the frustration of not...
The Ultimate CSS ReferenceThe Ultimate CSS Reference
Best Price: $25.66
Every part of CSS is covered. The browser support and compatibility is given for every...
GUI Bloopers 2.0: Common User Interface Design Don'ts and Dos (Interactive Technologies)GUI Bloopers 2.0: Common User Interface Design Don'ts and Dos (Interactive Technologies)
Best Price: $31.25
This book is aimed at both desktop application GUI developers and website developers. It shows...
Handbook of Usability Testing: Howto Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective TestsHandbook of Usability Testing: Howto Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests
Best Price: $31.92
Handbook of Usability Testing, Second Edition , is a nuts-and-bolts guide for beginners, loaded...

VMware ESX Server: Advanced Technical Design Guide (Advanced Technical Design Guide series)VMware ESX Server: Advanced Technical Design Guide (Advanced Technical Design Guide series)
Best Price: $28.00
A very well written VMware primer that allows for additional in-depth understanding and...
wxPython in ActionwxPython in Action
Best Price: $27.84
This book is hard to use as a reference but it is better than nothing.
Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed (VOICES)Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed (VOICES)
Best Price: $26.99
It was a while ago when I read this book, about 3 years ago and I still remember how extremely...
SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS 9SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS 9
Best Price: $103.00
This is a great book if you are preparing to take the SAS Exam. It covers everything you need...
Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics (Interactive Technologies) (Interactive Technologies)Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics (Interactive Technologies) (Interactive Technologies)
Best Price: $40.75
Measuring the User Experience is a good resource for practitioners who aren't well versed in...

Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development)Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development)
Best Price: $37.42
Good written book. covers all you need to know about python as programming language and QT to...
ScreenOS CookbookScreenOS Cookbook
Best Price: $34.40
Juniper already provides excellent technical documentation for their products. Having gone...
Foundations of GTK+ Development (Expert's Voice in Open Source)Foundations of GTK+ Development (Expert's Voice in Open Source)
Best Price: $20.94
I wanted to like this book, but unfortunately I cannot in good conscience give it 5 stars as the...
DNS for DummiesDNS for Dummies
Best Price: $13.41
I have read a few in the "Dummies" series and found them to be very good, but not as...
User Interface Design for ProgrammersUser Interface Design for Programmers
Best Price: $23.69
This book is aimed at programmers who don't have the time or inclination to do research on user...

Core Animation for OS X: Creating Compelling Dynamic User InterfacesCore Animation for OS X: Creating Compelling Dynamic User Interfaces
Best Price: $23.07
Mac OS X Leopard introduces a fantastic new technology that makes writing applications with...
An Introduction to GCCAn Introduction to GCC
Best Price: $12.14
This book is exactly what it says on the cover covering the basics of GCC.
MicroC OS II: The Real Time Kernel (With CD-ROM)MicroC OS II: The Real Time Kernel (With CD-ROM)
Best Price: $38.99
I read this book after I have tested TOPPERS/ssp(smallest set profile), which is ITRON smallest...
SAS Learning Edition 4.1: With the Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide 4.1SAS Learning Edition 4.1: With the Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide 4.1
Best Price: $160.00
The SAS Institute sells Learning Edition 4.1 for $60 if you have a .edu email address. This is a...
The Book of Qt 4: The Art of Building Qt ApplicationsThe Book of Qt 4: The Art of Building Qt Applications
Best Price: $28.78
This book is a fairly standard tutorial on building user interfaces. It covers the basics, and...

Visual Thinking: for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)Visual Thinking: for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)
Best Price: $33.73
I found this book provocative at multiple levels. At the strategic level, although I have...
Programming Microsoft  Composite UI Application Block and Smart Client Software Factory (Pro-Best Practices)Programming Microsoft Composite UI Application Block and Smart Client Software Factory (Pro-Best Practices)
Best Price: $1.99
Its not a bad book but its not exactly what I was looking for. Having said that there are not...
The Book of PF: A No-Nonsense Guide to the OpenBSD FirewallThe Book of PF: A No-Nonsense Guide to the OpenBSD Firewall
Best Price: $16.27
Mr. Hansteen, Did a rather good job of putting this book together. The chapters flowed well and...
Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User ResearchObserving the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research
Best Price: $30.00
I bought both your book as well as Mental Models AS PER YOUR RECOMMENDATION AND REGRETTED THAT...
Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web UsabilitySite-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability
Best Price: $15.46
To be fair about this, I am not judging the content of the book, but the format of the book is...

Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS UsersDesigning Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users
Best Price: $22.00
This book addresses all major topics needed when considering what color to assign to a group of...
The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems (ACM Press)The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems (ACM Press)
Best Price: $15.49
I learned a lot from this book. Not just how to design efficient interfaces for software, but...
The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web (VOICES)The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web (VOICES)
Best Price: $22.98
It delivers how to know user's thoughts and express it in effective way to others. And also...
The Persona Lifecycle : Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) (Interactive Technologies)The Persona Lifecycle : Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) (Interactive Technologies)
Best Price: $58.37
This book is full of handy processes. I have to say, you MUST be dedicated to building...
The Essential Guide to User Interface Design: An Introduction to GUI Design Principles and TechniquesThe Essential Guide to User Interface Design: An Introduction to GUI Design Principles and Techniques
Best Price: $23.94
Mr. Galitz's reasons for using design standards and the detailed consequences of poor design are...

The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide 4.1The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide 4.1
Best Price: $45.06
Learning to use SAS Enterprise Guide has never been easier! With The Little SAS Book for...
SharePoint 2003 User's Guide (Expert's Voice)SharePoint 2003 User's Guide (Expert's Voice)
Best Price: $14.75
If you need another good reference then this book will help. It has several examples and...
Understanding Your Users: A Practical Guide to User Requirements Methods, Tools, and Techniques (Interactive Technologies)Understanding Your Users: A Practical Guide to User Requirements Methods, Tools, and Techniques (Interactive Technologies)
Best Price: $55.82
This is, in my opinion, one of the best books on usability ever written. I originally read...
Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces (Interactive Technologies)Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces (Interactive Technologies)
Best Price: $26.87
This book is a good introduction to the techniques used with paper prototyping. It also provides...
 
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