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Barnum, C. Usability Testing and Research. Longman, New York, 2002. ISBN: 0-205-31519-4

Dumas, J. and Redish, J. A Practical Guide to Usability Testing, Revised Edition, Intellect, 1999. ISBN: 1-84150-020-8.

Nielsen, J. Usability Engineering. Academic Press: Boston, MA, 1993.

Rubin, J. Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests. Wiley: New York, NY, 1994.

Snyder, C., Paper Prototyping: Fast and Simple Techniques for Designing and Refining the User Interface, Morgan Kaufmann: San Francisco, CA, 2003.

 
Inspiration and Business Support

Bias, R. G. and Mayhew, D. J. (Eds.) Cost-Justifying Usability. Academic Press: Boston, MA, 1994.

Cooper, A. and Saffo, P., The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How To Restore The Sanity, Sams: Carmel, IN, 1999

Donoghue, K., Built for Use: Driving Profitability Through the User Experience, McGraw Hill: NY, 2002

Landauer, T. K. The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity. The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 1995.

Norman, D. The Design of Everyday Things. Doubleday: New York, NY, 1990.

 
User Centered Design Process

Mayhew, D. J., The Usability Engineering Life Cycle: A Practitioner's Handbook for User Interface Design, Morgan Kaufmann: San Francisco, CA, 1999

Preece, J., Rogers, Y., and Sharp, H., Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction, NY: John Wiley & Sons 2002,.

Rosson, M.B. and Carroll, J.M. Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of Human-Computer Interaction, Morgan Kaufmann: San Francisco, CA, 2002,.

Stone, D., Jarrett, C., Woodroffe, M., & Minocha, S. User interface design and evaluation. Morgan Kaufmann: Amsterdam, 2005

Vredenburg, K, Isensee, S., and Righi, C. User-Centered Design: An Integrated Approach, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002..

 
User and Task Analysis

Hackos, J. T. and Redish, J. C. User and Task Analysis for Interface Design. Wiley: New York, 1998.

Beyer, H. and Holtzblatt, K. Contextual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems. Morgan Kaufmann: San Francisco, CA, 1998.

Kuniavsky, M. Observing the user experience: A practitioner's guide to user research. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA, 2003

Wixon, D. and Ramey, J. (Eds.), Field Methods Casebook for Software Design, John Wiley & Sons: NY, 1996.

Wood, L. (Ed.), User Interface Design: Bridging the Gap from User Requirements to Design, CRC Press: Boca Raton, 1998.

 
Web Design and Information Architecture

Brinck, T., Gergle, D., and Wood, S. D., Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites That Work, Morgan Kaufmann: San Francisco, CA, 2002.

Farkas, D. and Farkas, J., Principles of Web Design, Longman: NY, 2002

Garrett, J. J., The Elements of User Experience, New Riders: Indianapolis, 2002.
Johnson, J., Web Bloopers, Morgan Kaufmann: San Francisco, CA, 2002.

Krug, S., Don't Make Me Think, A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Second Edition),New Riders Press: Berkeley, 2005

Lynch, P. and Horton, S., Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, Yale University Press:New Haven, CT, 1999 .

Nielsen, J., Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, New Riders: Indianapolis, 2000.
Rosenfeld, L. and Morville, P., Information Architecture, second edition, O'Reilly, 2002.

 
HCI Basics

Shneiderman, B. Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Human-Computer Interaction (Third Edition). Addison-Wesley: Reading, MA, 1998.

Mayhew, D. J. Principles and Guidelines in Software User Interface Design. Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1992.

 
Accessibility

Paciello, M., Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities. CMP: Lawrence, KS, 2000.
Clark, J. (2003). Building accessible web sites. New Riders, Indianapolis, 2003

 
Windows Interface Design

Arlov, L. GUI Design for Dummies. Foster City, CA: IDG Books. 1997.
Fowler, S. GUI Design Handbook. McGraw-Hill: New York, NY, 1998.

Cooper, A. About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design. IDG Books Worldwide: Foster City, CA, 1995.

 
UI Design and OO Methods

Constantine, L. and Lockwood, L., Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage Centered Design, Addison Wesley: Boston, 199.

Kulak, D. and Guiley, E., Use Cases: Requirements in Context, Addison Wesley: Boston, 2000.
Van Harmelen, M., Object Modeling and User Interface Design: Designing Interactive Systems, Addison Wesley: Boston, 2001.

 
Visual Design

Horton, W.K. The Icon Book, Wiley: New York, NY, 1994.
Mullet, K. and Sano, D. Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication Oriented Techniques. SunSoft Press: Mountain View, CA, 1995.

Tufte, E. R. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Graphics Press: Chesire, CT, 1983, Envisioning Information. Graphics Press: Chesire, CT, 1990, and Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Graphics Press: Cheshire, CT, 1997.

 

Handbook of Usability Testing
Rubin, Jeffrey
New York, USA, 1994, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
ISBN 0-471-59403-2

The Usability Engineering Lifecycle
Mayhew, Deborah J.
San Francisco, CA, USA, 1999, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
ISBN 1-55860-561-4

User and Task Analysis for Interface Design
Hackos, JoAnn T. and Redish, Janice C.
New York, USA, 1998, Wiley Computer Publishing
ISBN 0-471-17831-4

 

 
 
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