Coming from a newbie perspective. It's something I'm interested in learning more about on the side
Ask HN: Good books or articles on UI design?
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#2"The Design of Everyday Things" is a classic.
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#3The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - Edward Tufte
All UI's are graphs at their heart
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#4Slightly OT, but 'Sprint' written by Jake Knapp is a pretty cool book on working on all kinds of projects, UI/UX projects included.
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#5This is always a great resource: https://hackdesign.org/
* edit: meant this one
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#6Don't Make Me Think - Steve Krug
Information Dashboard Design - Stephen Few
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#7"The non-designer's design book : design and typographic principles for the visual novice" - very easy to follow.
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#8"Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud! Simply the single most important book to understand sequentional word/picture combinations. And yes, it's a comic!
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#9Don't Make Me Think - Steve Krug Information Dashboard Design - Stephen Few
Don't make me think is awesome and I believe you can get a free PDF version of it online. (Possibly an older edition, but it is just a great book.)
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#10Universal Principles of Design - William Lidwell
It's not explicitly computer UI design, but the book is essentially an alphabetical list of design concepts with illustrations/examples, and they're very applicable to computers. Amazon has "look inside" if you want to see what it's about.