User-Centered Books
Vialogix has developed our process by listening to web site users as well as sage veterans of development. Here you find a few classics and a starter kit for your own library.

Consider this the basic bookshelf for developing a user-centered design and development philosophy. Start with this list to evolve your own process and improve development of future projects.

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd EditionDesigning Web UsabilityHomepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approac...
by Steve Krug
$26.40
Steve Krug makes you laugh while teaching you how important it is to create useful web interfaces. We have clients who have bo...
Designing Web Usability
by Jakob Nielsen
$34.64
Neilsen's book is a factual look at why highly 'designed' web pages often fail and simple ones succeed. Don't let design get i...
Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
by Jakob Nielsen
$31.50
"Users spend most of their time on other sites than your site." So make sure your page design matches ease of use found around...
Usability Engineering (Interactive Technologies)Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites, 2nd EditionEnvisioning Information
Usability Engineering (Interactive Technolo...
by Jakob Nielsen
$32.10
1993 classic describes how Usability should fit into the development process. 35 pages of reference and scholarly bibliographi...
Information Architecture for the World Wide...
by Louis Rosenfeld

New version arriving December 2006. This book is a must have if you manage a large site with complex information.
Envisioning Information
by Edward R. Tufte
$34.56
Tufte always delivers well-informed presentations. This may be his best book on information design.
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're BuiltThe Design of Everyday ThingsOgilvy on Advertising
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After The...
by Stewart Brand
$19.80
This interesting book has photos and thought on how buildings improve with time - and use by humans. Web sites can and should ...
The Design of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman
$11.53
Today there are plenty of articles about Design being a competitive edge in business. This classic may have started the trend ...
Ogilvy on Advertising
by David Ogilvy
$16.47
The greatest copy writer ever started every campaign with knowledge of his customers. This book should be on every marketers s...
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