Resources for product design and usability
For more information about usability design principles, talk to a usability consultant or see the following books and websites.
Books
- Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, by Jakob Nielsen
- GUI Bloopers 2.0: Common User Interface Design Don'ts and Dos, by Jeff Johnson
- Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition, by Steve Krug
- The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems, by Jef Raskin
- About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design, by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, and David Cronin
- The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald A. Norman
- Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques, by Kevin Mullet and Darrel Sano
- Universal Principles of Design, by William Tidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler
Websites
- User Interface Engineering (http://www.uie.com)
- User Experience Professionals Association (http://www.uxpa.org)
- Neilsen Norman Group and Jacob Nielsen's website(http://www.nngroup.com)
- UX Magazine (http://www.uxmag.com)
- UXmatters (http://www.uxmatters.com)
- The Usability Post (http://www.usabilitypost.com)
- Usability.gov (http://www.usability.gov)
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