Good books on UI/UX design? • Hacker News Board

Re: Good books on UI/UX design?

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Post by hellweaver666 » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 11:04 AM UTC

vikasvadlapatla wrote: post #8

Somewhat coincidently, I just wrote a blog about UX and UI resources. Check it out at http://vikasvadlapatla.posterous.com/learn-usability-in-2-we...

I don't mean to be picky, but could I just correct you a little bit? You didn't write a blog, you wrote a post. The blog is the "wrapper" that contains all of the posts.

Re: Good books on UI/UX design?

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Post by viggity » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 1:05 PM UTC

Ben Fry's PhD work is awesome, it is easy to read and free!

http://benfry.com/phd/

Re: Good books on UI/UX design?

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Post by lylejohnson » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 2:34 PM UTC

I got a lot out of Alan Cooper's book About Face back when I was developing more desktop GUI applications. I'm not sure how relevant it would be for your purposes, given that it predates the rise in popularity of web-based applications.

Re: Good books on UI/UX design?

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Post by jlintz » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 2:53 PM UTC

Check out Edward Tufte's books , from his webpage

"Edward Tufte has written seven books, including Beautiful Evidence, Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and Data Analysis for Politics and Policy. He writes, designs, and self-publishes his books on analytical design, which have received more than 40 awards for content and design. He is Professor Emeritus at Yale University, where he taught courses in statistical evidence, information design, and interface design. His current work includes landscape sculpture, printmaking, video and a new book."