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By: 2009 Cleanup « Joel's Scattered Thoughts

2009 Cleanup « Joel's Scattered Thoughts — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:23:17 +0000

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By: Jerome Pennington

Jerome Pennington — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:22:55 +0000

Where’s the “Add all to Amazon wishlist” button?

By: Dave Roedl

Dave Roedl — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:42:23 +0000

Kim Goodwin’s Designing for the Digital Age is an awesome reference book. As a professional, I have found it a bit more readable and useful than About Face 3.

My personal bible of design is Nelson and Stolterman’s The Design Way. Though not IxD specific, this book has helped me the most in understanding the nature of design practice.

By: Richard Karpinski

Richard Karpinski — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:38:06 +0000

See Jef’s summary of the rules and principles from The Humane Interface on my website. The point is to make the computer never take your attention away from your task. We don’t go the the movies to watch the projector.

I also enjoyed the details in the GUI Bloopers books but they don’t compare on giving grand principles.

By: Javid Jamae

Javid Jamae — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:23:14 +0000

Good list, I’d like to suggest:

Steve Krug – Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

By: Usability/Design/HF Potpourri — the Human Factors Blog

Usability/Design/HF Potpourri — the Human Factors Blog — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:32:18 +0000

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By: BirgitJevnaker

BirgitJevnaker — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:31:34 +0000

Hi Dan Saffer,
Thanks for the list, many great books there that I appreciate, too. For other readers, I would also suggest your book, Designing for interactions!
It has the needed, introductory and very good content when designing new services for others and is pedagogically written with good illustrations! I use it this semester for a new course on Managing innovation, design and creativity at BI (our management school in Oslo), a course which is innovation and service design focused. It is on the curriculum, as compulsory reading for our business innovation students! (who by the way also collaborate with design students from AHO, in shared concept design and business proposal work between design and business innovation students in Oslo).
Greetings,
Birgit H Jevnaker, Assoc prof BI

By: Brian Cray

Brian Cray — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:22:56 +0000

Great list, and I agree wholeheartedly especially with The Design of Everyday Things – pretty much the bible for thinking from the user’s perspective.

By: Uday Gajendar

Uday Gajendar — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:05:13 +0000

Great list. I didn’t think much of “Shaping Things”, found it frankly just too wacky for me I would however, add a few more:

- Designing Visual Interfaces by Mullet/Sano (yes, even “interaction” designers should keep this on their shelves)
- Creating Breakthrough Products by Cagan/Vogel, which IMHO is THE definitive textbook on innovation process and case studies
- Kolko’s Thoughts on Interaction
- McCullough’s Digital Ground

and of course John Dewey’s Art as Experience because if you’re gonna design “interactions” and “experiences” you better damn well know some intellectual basis to this stuff! also provides a nice reminder of the humanism that we strive for underlying the digital.