 | Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $24.00 If you internalize all of these you can design anything.
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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: $20.00 Canonical tome devoted to decreasing users' cognitive load. Don't make them think; do it for them.
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 | About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $18.30 A radio button is for this, a check box is for that, and here's what we mean when we say "modal." The nuts and bolts of interaction design....
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 | Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research by Mike Kuniavsky
Buy new: $37.98 / Used from: $30.00 Do your research ahead of time, and you increase your chances of success. This book will teach you the methods for figuring out your users.
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 | Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning by Dan Brown
Buy new: $29.69 / Used from: $15.90 This is a wireframe. This is a sitemap. This is a flow. At some point you must learn what these are and how to produce them, and this book will teach you that.
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 | Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions by Bill Scott
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $23.79 Design patterns for now. If you're going to steal, steal from the best.
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 | Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks by Luke Wroblewski
Buy used from: $103.60 Everyone sees this book and says "Really? A book about web forms?" But really, there's lots to be learned here.
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 | 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick
Buy new: $9.07 / Used from: $7.59 Sage advice from an architect, much of which is applicable to UX design.
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 | Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen
Buy new: $34.64 / Used from: $0.29 This is the book that started it all for me, opening my eyes to considerations beyond prettiness. I still go back to this for the fundamentals.
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