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Books
- Apple
Computer:
- Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines - don't let the name fool you, this applies to all GUI's. Reference centric (not a tutorial).
- Making it Macintoh -- an interactive CD that is
pretty good. It is a little out of date, but
definitely something to go through. Gives you a lot of
Apples reasonings.
- Microsoft:
- Windows
Interface Guidelines for Software Design - it was
not a bad rip-off of Apple's HI Guidelines. Microsoft
should read them, and apply them -- and then maybe
they could even make some effort to get Windows
Application Developers to use them.
- Windows
Interface Guidelines for Software Design - it was
not a bad rip-off of Apple's HI Guidelines. Microsoft
should read them, and apply them -- and then maybe
they could even make some effort to get Windows
Application Developers to use them.
- Alan Cooper:
- Donald
A. Norman:
- Design of Everyday Things - a classic, a must read for all
- Psychology of Everyday Things - An earlier version of "Design of Everyday Things"
- Turn Signals Are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles -
- Things that make us smart - observations on interface that surrounds us.
- The Invisible Computer : Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex and Information Appliances Are the Solution - not yet available
- There is also a neat interactive Voyager
CD-ROM. I it has texts of his books and more.
Basically, I like everything by Norman.
- Bruce
Tognazzini:
- Tog on Interface - a good read, sort of a compendium.
- Tog
on Software Design - not bad, but he tries to sell
his vision of the future. I preferred the first
book.
- Wilbert
O. Gantz:
- Essential
guide to user interface design - Windows centric,
but not bad for Windows UI
- Essential
guide to user interface design - Windows centric,
but not bad for Windows UI
- Jacob Neilson: Web-centric UI issues
- Robin Williams: (not Mork)
- The Non-Designers Design Book - focus on visuals (not really UI)
- The
Non-Designers Web Book - just bought it, so I
don't know how it rates yet.
- Ray Kristof & Amy Satran:
- Interactivity
by Design - lacking in content, but pretty
pictures (concepts), or so a reader says. I've never
read it. More for the visual aspects.
- Interactivity
by Design - lacking in content, but pretty
pictures (concepts), or so a reader says. I've never
read it. More for the visual aspects.
- David Siegel
- Creating Killer Web Site - one of the best website cookbooks out there.
- Secrets
of Successful Web Sites - Good, but not quite as
good as the other.
- Edward R. Tufte
- Brenda Laurel (Editor)
- Art of Human-Computer Interface Design - a compendium of articles on HCI. A tad dated -- but an applicable look at users and interactions.
Interface Links
- Association for Computing Machinery, and their SIG on CHI (Computer-Human Interaction).
- Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and Mac OS 8 Human Interface Guidelines. Online and PDF.
- Bad Designs - many how not to's. (More Human Factors than Human Interface).
- The Bootstrap Institute Where Douglas Engelbart currently performs his miracles
- IBM's Ease of Use Website and HCI Website are both neat resources.
- Liquid Info Org - A very interesting collection of Books, Articles, insights and opinions.
- Microsoft's User Interface Guidelines Online. If only MS applied these.
- Sun's Interface Guidelines for their WebSite
Articles
- As We May Think By Vannevar Bush
- Tools for thought By Howard Rheingold - learning from past predictions
- Alert Box - Monthly article by Jacob Nielsen
Links to more
- ACM's HCI Links
- Interfaced System International Links lots of stuff.Great starting point.
- HCI Bibliography only about 1,000 times more complete than mine.
- Hans De Graff's HCI Index of Links
- Mikael Ericsson's HCI Resource Links
NewsGroups
Companies
- Ingenuity Software - Bruce Horn (of Mac Finder fame) and Ken Kam
Related books
These books are more the science fiction, speculation, only vaguely related or futurist books. They often have great broad concepts and possibilities - even if they are not "pure" Human Factors books.
- Why Things Bite Back by Edward Tenner - interesting observations on accidental consequences of technology. Something UI and Systems designers should read just to get them in the right frame of mind.
- Bringing Design to Software - a compendium of many articles on the subject of software design (on many levels).
- Groupware in the 21st Century - interesting observations on how information is going to effect our society.
- Out of Control by Kevin Kelly - a very casually written look at various topics about the future (including better information environments).
- War In The Age of Intelligent Machines by Manuel De Landa - a look into the "shift in the relation of human beings both to machines and to information". Written from the perspective of a future robot historian looking back.
- Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan - a futurists pretty accurate ramblings, written decades ago. Interesting reflections on the information age and computers.
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