Introduction to UX

The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett Killer UX Design by Jodie Moule A Project Guide To UX Design by Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain by Tom Stafford & Matt Webb Undercover User Experience Design by Cennydd Bowles & James Box

Communicating UX

Communicating the User Experience: A practical guide for creating useful UX documentation by Richard Caddick & Steve Cable Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behaviour by Indi Young Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning by Dan M. Brown The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web by Steve Mulder See What I Mean: How to use Comics to Communicate Ideas by Kevin Cheng

Usability

Dont Make Me Think by Steve Krug The Usability Kit by Gerry Gaffney and Daniel Szuc Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug Forms That Work by Caroline Jarrett and Gerry Gaffney

Information Architecture

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld A Practical Guide to Information Architecture by Donna Spencer

Interaction Design

About Face by Alan Cooper Seductive Interaction Design by Stephen P. Anderson Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things by Don Norman Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge

Visual Design

The Non-Designers Design Book by Robin Williams The Principles of Beautiful Web Design by Jason Beaird Sexy Web Design by Elliot Jay Stocks

The Design of Sites (2nd Ed.) by Jason I. Hong

Mobile

Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps by Josh Clark Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski Content Strategy for Mobile by Karen McGrane Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte

Collaborative Design

Gamestorming: A Playbook For Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown and James Macanufo Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton Sketching User Experiences (workbook) by Saul Greenberg, Sheelagh Carpendale, Nicolai Marquardt and Bill Buxton Lean UX by Jeff Gothelf

Communicating Ideas

Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences by Nancy Duarte (alternatively, check out the interactive ebook for iOS) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte

Web Analytics

Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics by Brian Clifton Web Analytics: An Hour A Day by Avanash Kaushik

Sketchnoting

Sketchnotes 2011 by Eva-Lotta Lamm The Sketchnote Handbook by Mike Rohde

The Bigger Picture

The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick The Shallows: How the Internet is changing the way we read, think and remember by Nicholas Carr Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

Intranets

Designing Intranets: Creating Sites That Work by James Robertson What Every Intranet Team Should Know by James Robertson

UX Books
UX Primer

The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman Dont Make Me Think by Steve Krug

Design Thinking

Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things by Don Norman The Inmates Are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper

Strategy

Subject To Change by Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, Brandon Schauer, and David Verba

Process

The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett About Face 3 by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, and David Cronin A Project Guide to UX Design by Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler

Principles

Designing for the Social Web by Joshua Porter Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell Designing Visual Interfaces by Kevin Mullet Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (the Polar Bear book) by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web by Christina Wodtke and Austin Govella Designing Web Navigation by James Kalbach Web Form Design by Luke Wroblewski

Activities

Usability Engineering by Jakob Nielsen Handbook of Usability Testing by Jeffrey Rubin and Dana Chisnell

Observing the User Experience by Mike Kuniavsky

Documentation

Communicating Design by Dan Brown

Extra Credit

Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Errorby S. M. Casey