 | Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Circle.Com Library) by Steve Krug
Buy used from: £1.77 Must read! Krug takes sites apart with humour and cartoons.
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 | The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £3.33 A classic, makes you never be able to look at a door knob the same again
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 | The Inmates are Running the Asylum: Why High-tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper
Buy new: £6.23 / Used from: £5.75 Learn about the Dancing Bear conspiracy... and shudder
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 | The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems by Jef Raskin
Buy new: £11.39 / Used from: £10.05 He invented Macintosh (right). Seriously good ideas here.
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 | Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites by Louis Rosenfeld
Buy used from: £1.93 The Polar Bear. Context, Content, Users... and other favourite folk songs...
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 | Constantine on Peopleware (Yourdon Press Computing Series) by Larry L. Constantine
Buy used from: £1.20 A collection of columns expounding "Usage" Centered Design
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 | Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward R. Tufte
Buy new: £28.00 / Used from: £15.97 Now this is wonderful, if a picture is worth 1000, a diagram is a million
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 | Tog on Interface by Bruce Tognazzini
Buy new: £26.99 / Used from: £2.89 He invented Macintosh too (hang on)...
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 | Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design by V Flanders
Buy used from: £0.96 When web design goes bad...
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 | Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Nielsen
Buy new: £17.49 / Used from: £2.00 Jakob is ok with a pinch of salt, read, synthesize, interpret... don't implement
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 | A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) by Christopher Alexander
Buy new: £24.69 / Used from: £25.91 Usability of Ideas, Life, Chairs and Waist High Shelves.
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 | Gonzo Marketing: Winning through Worst Practices by Christopher Locke
Buy used from: £0.39 Not usability at all, or is it?
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