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Re: Ask HN: Good books or articles on UI design?

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Post by uibreakfast » Sun, Oct 16, 2016, 10:06 AM UTC

charlieirish wrote: post #64

I keep re-reading The UI Audit by Jane Portman: http://uibreakfast.com/audit/ I use it every time I need to craft an interface but especially for SaaS apps. The OP requested something from a 'newbie perspective'; this book will explain the basics but the real value comes from the explanations and advice with respect to why UI decisions lead to happier users. I've copy/pasted the chapter headings from the site: Introd…

Thank you so much for mentioning it here Charlie! Indeed, the book is written specifically for founders to facilitate their design decisions.

Re: Ask HN: Good books or articles on UI design?

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Post by ivan_gammel » Sun, Oct 16, 2016, 12:21 PM UTC

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #74

ivan_gammel wrote: post #62

There are many books talking about UX/UI design, but most of them are quite abstract and do not tell you, when exactly, on which stage of your software development process to apply the knowledge they present. This often leads to a typical mistake done by developers, that I've seen in too many projects, when UI design is considered at later stages of the project, when they are starting coding the UI and all the backen…

I enrolled on the Interaction Design specialisation in November 2015 and worked through the modules until July 2016. On the whole I found the course interesting and often fun, and I feel that I learned quite a lot. Until, that is, the 7th course: Designing, Running, and Analyzing Experiments. This was nine weeks of statistical analysis using steadily more elaborate analytical models. I ground through it and finished…

Thank you, that's good to know. I've seen only the intro, because specialization didn't start at that time.

Re: Ask HN: Good books or articles on UI design?

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Post by pythonbull » Sun, Oct 16, 2016, 12:34 PM UTC

Some great books- immerse in it for rapid learning

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) - http://amzn.to/2e5Erfc

Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty - http://amzn.to/2euMOUc

UX Design and Usability Mentor Book : With Best Practice Business Analysis and User Interface Design Tips and Techniques - http://amzn.to/2dXYZJT

Re: Ask HN: Good books or articles on UI design?

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Post by neelkadia » Sun, Oct 16, 2016, 3:00 PM UTC

Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Good books or articles on UI design?

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Post by vickychijwani » Sun, Oct 16, 2016, 3:16 PM UTC

"Designing with the Mind in Mind" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8564020-designing-with-t...) is an excellent book that approaches design from a fundamental psychology perspective.

Re: Ask HN: Good books or articles on UI design?

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Post by overeater » Sun, Oct 16, 2016, 10:38 PM UTC

rickyc091 wrote: post #78

overeater wrote: post #35

Some of the reading list in the UI/UX course at Brown: http://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci1300/ Particularly (free links with pdfs), Don Norman - Design of Everyday Things https://archive.org/details/DesignOfEverydayThings Bill Buxton - Input Manuscript http://www.billbuxton.com/inputManuscript.html Alan Cooper - About Face http://feiramoderna.net/download/pos-positivo/COOPER-Alan/Ab... Vignelli - The Vignelli Canon htt…

Looks like the brown information are locked under an authentication :(

That's why I posted the links to the pdfs! :-)

Re: Ask HN: Good books or articles on UI design?

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Post by rickyc091 » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 1:55 AM UTC

overeater wrote: post #86

rickyc091 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like the brown information are locked under an authentication :(

That's why I posted the links to the pdfs! :-)

Ahh, silly me! I was trying to go for the assignments and lectures too! Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Good books or articles on UI design?

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Post by allergeek » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 9:02 PM UTC

Hi, in addition to checking out if any of the suggested resources work extremely well for you, I'd like to suggest this book.

It answered a lot of the questions about design process I had some ten years ago. (I am now involved in UX and product design)

http://scottberkun.com/making-things-happen/

If you go briefly through it, you'll certainly find some sections useful for clearing things up with information design, capturing design goals, singling out tasks etc. It sparked my own interest in user experience and service design back then.

To my opinion, after much thought and practice, UI design is very much a shell to everything that's preceeding it on the timeline. Try to cover UX as well as UI, capturing requirements, etc.

It is also important to find a book, a blog or a course that is mesmerizing particularly to you, and easy to grasp with your specific background. Good luck! Alice

Re: Ask HN: Good books or articles on UI design?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 19, 2016, 10:53 AM UTC

overeater wrote: post #35

Some of the reading list in the UI/UX course at Brown: http://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci1300/ Particularly (free links with pdfs), Don Norman - Design of Everyday Things https://archive.org/details/DesignOfEverydayThings Bill Buxton - Input Manuscript http://www.billbuxton.com/inputManuscript.html Alan Cooper - About Face http://feiramoderna.net/download/pos-positivo/COOPER-Alan/Ab... Vignelli - The Vignelli Canon htt…

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Re: Ask HN: Good books or articles on UI design?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 19, 2016, 10:54 AM UTC

overeater wrote: post #35

Some of the reading list in the UI/UX course at Brown: http://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci1300/ Particularly (free links with pdfs), Don Norman - Design of Everyday Things https://archive.org/details/DesignOfEverydayThings Bill Buxton - Input Manuscript http://www.billbuxton.com/inputManuscript.html Alan Cooper - About Face http://feiramoderna.net/download/pos-positivo/COOPER-Alan/Ab... Vignelli - The Vignelli Canon htt…

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