Books

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This is a list of the seminal and recommended books that provide both broad and deep examination of the UX field, its practicies, and methodologies.


Introductory Books

  • About Face 2.0; by Alan Cooper and Robert Reimann
  • Elements of User Experience; by Jesse James Garret
  • Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web; by Christina Wodtke
  • Information Architecture for the World Wide Web; by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld

Practice and Methodologies

  • Mental Models; by Indi Young
  • Paper Prototyping; by Carolyn Snyder
  • Sketching the User Experience; by Bill Buxton
  • The Design of Sites; by Douglas K. van Duyne, James A. Landay, Jason I. Hong
  • Web Form Design; by Luke Wroblewski

Visual Design, Information Visualization

  • Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques; by Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano
  • Envisioning Information; by Edward R. Tufte
  • Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data; by Stephen Few
  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information; by Edward R. Tufte
  • Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art; by Scott McCloud

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