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A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making
by Russ Unger (New Riders Press)
“If you are a young designer entering or contemplating entering the UX field this is a canonical book. If you are an organization that really needs to start grokking UX this book is also for you. " - Chris Bernard, User Experience Evangelist, Microsoft. User experience design is the discipline of creating a useful and usable Web site or application—one that’s easily navigated and meets the needs of both the site owner and its users. But there’s a lot more … (continue reading) -
Designing Web Usability
by Jakob Nielsen (Peachpit Press)
Users experience the usability of a web site before they have committed to using it and before making any purchase decisions. The web is the ultimate environment for empowerment, and he or she who clicks the mouse decides everything. Designing Web Usability is the definitive guide to usability from Jakob Nielsen, the world's leading authority. Over 250,000 Internet professionals around the world have turned to this landmark book, in which Nielsen shares the full weight of his wisdom and experience. … (continue reading) -
Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems
by Steve Krug (New Riders Press)
It's been known for years that usability testing can dramatically improve products. But with a typical price tag of $5,000 to $10,000 for a usability consultant to conduct each round of tests, it rarely happens. In this how-to companion to Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Steve Krug spells out an approach to usability testing that anyone can easily apply to their own web site, application, or other product. (As he said in Don't Make … (continue reading) -
Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
by Jakob Nielsen (New Riders Press)
The book begins with a briefing on Jakob's web usability principles, themselves culled from years of research. The 50 sites fall under such categories as Fortune 500 Sites, Highest-Traffic Sites, and E-Commerce Sites. The content is simply presented: Four book pages are devoted to each homepage. The first page is a clean screenshot of the site's homepage (for readers to make their own, unbiased judgments), followed by a page that explains the site's purpose and summarizes its success—or failure—at usabilty. … (continue reading)
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Prioritizing Web Usability
by Jakob Nielsen (New Riders Press)
In 2000, Jakob Nielsen, the world’s leading expert on Web usability, published a book that changed how people think about the Web—Designing Web Usability (New Riders). Many applauded. A few jeered. But everyone listened. The best-selling usability guru is back and has revisited his classic guide, joined forces with Web usability consultant Hoa Loranger, and created an updated companion book that covers the essential changes to the Web and usability today. Prioritizing Web Usability is the guide for anyone who … (continue reading) -
Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience
by James Kalbach (O'Reilly Media)
Thoroughly rewritten for today's web environment, this bestselling book offers a fresh look at a fundamental topic of web site development: navigation design. Amid all the changes to the Web in the past decade, and all the hype about Web 2.0 and various "rich" interactive technologies, the basic problems of creating a good web navigation system remain. Designing Web Navigation demonstrates that good navigation is not about technology-it's about the ways people find information, and how you guide them. Ideal … (continue reading) -
When Search Meets Web Usability
by Shari Thurow (New Riders Press)
This book delivers a proactive approach to building an effective Web site that is search engine friendly and will result in better search rankings. It outlines the steps needed to bridge the gap between a Google search and a Web site, and also improve the users' experience once they get to the site. By understanding the wide variety of information-seeking strategies and the individual behaviors associated with them, this book helps information architects, Web designers/developers, SEOs/SEMs, and usability professionals build … (continue reading) -
Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work
by Tom Brinck (Morgan Kaufmann)
Every stage in the design of a new web site is an opportunity to meet or miss deadlines and budgetary goals. Every stage is an opportunity to boost or undercut the site's usability. This book tells you how to design usable web sites in a systematic process applicable to almost any business need. You get practical advice on managing the project and incorporating usability principles from the project's inception. This systematic usability process for web design has been developed by … (continue reading) -
Web Usability: A User-Centered Design Approach
by Jonathan Lazar (Addison Wesley)
A User-Centered Design Approach helps readers understand the importance of designing Web sites focused on the needs of the user. In it, Professor Lazar helps users in a step-by-step way through the process of designing user-centered Web-based resources —starting with the determination of the mission and target population, to requirements gathering, page design, usability testing, through management of the site. These ideas are made concrete through examination of the real Web sites via case studies explaining how user-centered design concepts … (continue reading)Get this book$ 5356
Bookmarks
Here's some great online reading on Web Usability too!
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Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines
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Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
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useit.com: Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design
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Web Site Usability Checklist
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Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns
