Usable Monster
Usability Books

Usability books I have read and recommend

  1. A practical guide to usability testing by J. Dumas and J. Redish
  2. Cost-justifying usability by Randolph Bias and Deborah Mayhew
  3. Designing web usability by Jakob Nielsen
  4. Don't make me think by Steve Krug
  5. Handbook of usability testing by Jeff Rubin
  6. Information architecture for the World Wide Web , 2nd Edition by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville
  7. The psychology of everyday things by Don Norman
  8. The usability engineering lifecycle: A practitioner's handbook for user interface design by Deborah J. Mayhew
  9. The visual display of quantitative information , 2nd Edition by E.R. Tufte
  10. Usability engineering by Jakob Nielsen
  11. User and task analysis for interface design by J.T. Hackos and Redish
  12. Visual explanations by E. R. Tufte

Usability books on my need to read list

  1. An introduction to usability by Patrick Jordan
  2. Built for use by Karen Donoghue
  3. Contextual design: A customer-centered approach to systems design by Hugh and Karen
  4. Design for the real world: Human ecology and social change , 1st Edition by V. Papanek
  5. Designing for usability: key principles and what designers think by John D. Gould and Clayton Lewis
  6. Designing visual interfaces by Mullet and Sano
  7. Human error by J. Reason
  8. Human factors for technical communicators by Marlan Coe
  9. Human factors in consumer products edited by Neville Stanton
  10. Human scale by Henry Dreyfus Associates
  11. Normal accidents: Living with high-risk technologies by C. Perrow
  12. Submit now - Designing persuasive web sites by Andrew Chak
  13. The age of spiritual machines: When computers exceed human intelligence by R. Kurzweil
  14. Usability engineering: Scenario-based development of human-computer interaction by M.B. Rosson and J. Carroll
  15. Usability evaluation in industry edited by Patrick Jordan, Bruce Thomas,et al
  16. Usability in practice by Michael Wiklund
  17. Web redesign - Workflow that works by Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler
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