Professional Documents
Culture Documents
UX Ref PDF
UX Ref PDF
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
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
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
Documentation
Extra Credit
Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Errorby S. M. Casey