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Recommended Reading

Books

This book includes the most important, useful, and timely studies in the fields of user interface design, interaction design, and usability testing. If you’re interested in going into more detail about the topics covered in this book, pick up one or more of the following books at your local bookstore:

• A Practical Guide to Usability Testing, by Joseph S. Dumas and Janice C. Redish, ISBN 1-84150-020-8
• About Face 2.0, by Alan Cooper and Robert Reimann, ISBN 0-7645-2641-3
• Built for Use, by Karen Donoghue, ISBN 0-07-138304-2
• Constructing Accessible Web Sites, by Jim Thatcher et al., ISBN 1-904151-00-0
• Cost-Justifying Usability, Second Edition, by Randolph G. Bias and Deborah J. Mayhew, ISBN 0-12-095811-2
• Observing the User Experience, by Mike Kuniavsky, ISBN 1-55860-923-7
• Paper Prototyping, by Carolyn Snyder, ISBN 1-55860-870-2
• The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald A. Norman, ISBN 0-465-06710-7
• Usability for the Web, by Tom Brinck et al., ISBN 1-55860-658-0
• User and Task Analysis for Interface Design, by JoAnn T. Hackos and Janice C. Redish, ISBN 0-471-17831-4
• Waiting for Your Cat to Bark?, by Bryan Eisenberg and Jeffrey Eisenberg, ISBN 0-7852-1897-1

Web Sites

There are plenty of usability-related sites and guidelines on the Web. Here are some great Web sites to start with:

• Nielsen Norman Group, www.nngroup.com/
• PaperPrototyping.com, www.paperprototyping.com/
• Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines, http://usability.gov/pdfs/guidelines.html
• Society for Technical Communication Usability Web Site, www.stcsig.org/usability/
• UsabilityNet, http://usabilitynet.org/home.htm