 | The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $9.04 A rallying cry for human centered design! Alan tells us why products drive us crazy, why we need Interaction Designers, and how tools like Personas can stop the madness. I buy this book by the gross and give it to everyone I can.
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 | Creating Breakthrough Products: Innovation from Product Planning to Program Approval by Jonathan Cagan
Buy new: $21.77 / Used from: $18.00 The result of years of research, Craig Vogel (past president of the IDSA) and fellow Carnegie Mellon professor Jonathan Cagen present case studies and proven methodologies behind some of the worlds most successful products.
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 | The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $7.27 The first and last book on designing for people. Don will teach you the fundamentals of cognitive psychology and forever change your approach.
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 | Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services by Kim Goodwin
Buy new: $44.09 / Used from: $33.36 The new bible for Interaction Design! And Kim gave me props in the preface! Woot!
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 | Contextual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems (Interactive Technologies) by Hugh Beyer
Buy new: $59.06 / Used from: $45.66 A wonderful ethnographic framework that helps break down work into five common models.
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 | About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $17.15 A textbook of Interaction Design methods, and patterns. A must for application designers.
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 | Prioritizing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen
Buy new: $28.39 / Used from: $24.98 Jakob is THE web-design guru. This book offers compelling critiques of websites and best-practices with a solid grounding in primary research.
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 | Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen
Buy new: $34.64 / Used from: $0.23 Companion to Prioritizing and Eyetracking Web Usability.
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 | The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition by Edward R. Tufte
Buy new: $28.80 / Used from: $25.50 Part of the essential four-piece set from the master of information design.
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 | Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward R. Tufte
Buy new: $32.40 / Used from: $13.90 Part of the essential four-piece set from the master of information design.
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 | Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies) by Bill Buxton
Buy new: $27.79 / Used from: $21.45 Bill Buxton is my hero, and a true Experience Designer. This is a great, fun book filled with personal insight.
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 | The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm by Tom Kelley
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $12.55 How they do it at IDEO.
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 | Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
Buy new: $34.56 / Used from: $19.20 Part of the essential four-piece set from the master of information design.
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 | Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $3.50 Don will tell you the difference between visceral, reflective, and behavioral reactions to design. Knowing and leveraging the differences will make you a more effective designer.
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 | Handbook of Usability Testing: Howto Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests by Jeffrey Rubin
Buy new: $37.80 / Used from: $31.45 An essential reference for any experience designer. A simple read. Our copy has a million post it flags coming out the top--testament to its heavy use.
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 | The New Culture of Desire: 5 Radical New Strategies That Will Change Your Business and Your Life by Melinda Davis
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $4.89 Learnings from the Human Desire Project. Everey experience designer should be fluent in these trends.
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 | Lovemarks: The Future Beyond Brands by Kevin Roberts
Buy new: $18.15 / Used from: $11.50 I love this book, and I love the website.
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 | Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Harvard Paperbacks) by Christopher Alexander
Buy new: $20.94 / Used from: $13.95 The seminal work on systems design. Written in 1964, but never so relevant.
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 | Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud
Buy new: $16.09 / Used from: $9.89 What fun! This book will give you an art history lesson and teach you a lot about how to communicate at various levels of fidelity. Essential for "sketching the user experience."
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 | Phaidon Design Classics (3 Volume Set) (Pts. 1, 2 & 3) by Editors of Phaidon Press
Buy new: $110.25 / Used from: $82.32 Another monster from Phaidon, these three volumes catalog 999 design classics. A must!
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 | Design Secrets: Products
Buy used from: $105.80 |
 | Design Secrets: Products 2: 50 Real-Life Product Design Projects Uncovered (v. 2) by Lynn Haller
Buy used from: $56.99 |
 | The Measure of Man and Woman: Human Factors in Design by Alvin R. Tilley
Buy new: $52.97 / Used from: $36.01 The defacto reference for ergonomic data, from Dreyfuss
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 | Winning at New Products: Accelerating the Process from Idea to Launch, Third Edition by Robert G. Cooper
Buy new: $20.30 / Used from: $12.50 The bible of New Product Development from the inventor of Stage-Gate
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 | Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition by Steve Krug
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $21.96 A favorite among Interaction Designers and a great easy read to give to your executive champion!
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 | Institutionalization of Usability: A Step-by-Step Guide by Eric Schaffer
Buy new: $40.45 / Used from: $17.90 Essential for navigating the politics of usability
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 | Cost-Justifying Usability, Second Edition: An Update for the Internet Age, Second Edition (Interactive Technologies)
Buy new: $56.90 / Used from: $67.14 Essential for making the ROI case for usability
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 | Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough
Buy new: $18.15 / Used from: $10.98 Do it sustainably. This book will change your life as a designer.
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 | Building Design Strategy: Using Design to Achieve Key Business Objectives
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $12.47 A fantastic series of articles from the Design Management Institute's excellent quarterly journal.
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 | Materials and Design: The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design by Michael F. Ashby
Buy new: $36.65 / Used from: $23.77 My favorite handbook on materials and manufacturing processes. An essential reference book for any Industrial Designer!
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 | The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture by Editors of Phaidon Press
Buy used from: $162.40 Architects have been doing Experience Design for thousands of years, and this monster (and I mean monster--it comes with it's own carrying case) of a book proves it. Endless inspiration!
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 | Jump Start Your Brain by Doug Hall
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $9.82 An incredibly effective way to generate concepts in the fuzzy front end of new product development. Filled with exercises you can apply right now, and the tools to do them! I love Doug!!
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 | The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials) by Clayton M. Christensen
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $4.67 Clayton introduces us to the concept of Disruption. Ignore at your own risk!
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