Nick’s Top User Experience Books
May 7th, 2009
So today there have been a few mentions of the The UX Book Club‘s Top UX Books list (Most notably: Louis Rosenfeld and Paul Seys). I believe this list suppose to be based on the recommendations from all of the UX Book Clubs around the world… tho the Seattle UX Book Club was never informed of this list, or at least it’s members weren’t. A good list none the less.
I thought I would add to this my own personal list of top UX books that have helped me along in my career as well as in recent days. These books I have promoted in several of my presentations as well as to any colleagues who ask for such resources. So here is my list of top UX Books:
About Face- by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin
- $29.70
- Wiley; 3rd edition (May 7, 2007)
Communicating Design- by Dan Brown
- $29.69
- New Riders Press; 1 edition (September 16, 2006)
Contextual Design- by Hugh Beyer
- $71.05
- Morgan Kaufmann; 1st edition (September 15, 1997)
The Design of Everyday Things- by Donald A. Norman
- $11.53
- Basic Books (September 17, 2002)
Designing for Interaction- by Dan Saffer
- $29.70
- Peachpit Press; 1 edition (July 28, 2006)
Designing for the Social Web- by Joshua Porter
- $26.40
- New Riders Press; 1 edition (May 4, 2008)
Designing Interfaces- by Jenifer Tidwell
- $32.97
- O’Reilly Media, Inc.; illustrated edition edition (November 21, 2005)
Designing the Obvious- by Robert Hoekman Jr.
- $26.39
- New Riders Press; 1 edition (October 22, 2006)
Designing Web Interfaces- by Bill Scott and Theresa Neil
- $31.49
- O’Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (January 30, 2009)
Don’t Make Me Think- by Steve Krug
- $26.40
- New Riders Press; 2nd edition (August 28, 2005)
The Elements of User Experience- by Jesse James Garrett
- $23.09
- Peachpit Press; illustrated edition edition (October 21, 2002)
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web- by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld
- $26.39
- O’Reilly Media, Inc.; 3 edition (November 27, 2006)
A Project Guide to UX Design- by Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler
- $23.09
- New Riders Press; 1 edition (March 23, 2009)
Measuring the User Experience- by Thomas Tullis
- $44.95
- Morgan Kaufmann (March 28, 2008)
Sketching User Experiences- by Bill Buxton
- $32.97
- Morgan Kaufmann (March 30, 2007)
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Nick Finck is a user experience professional who has dabbled in the web for over a decade. He specializes in information architecture, interaction design, usability and user research. Read more
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