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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