Books

Institute of Informatics has a number of books on interaction design, usability and related topics.

The following books should be available in the interaction design lab (room T-510). In order to check the availability please contact Kersti Toming:

1. Buxton, B. (2007). Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design. Morgan Kaufmann. [Amazon]
2. Clarke, A. (2006). Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design. New Riders. [Amazon]
3. Cooper, A., Reimann, R., & Cronin, D. (2007). About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design. Wiley. [Amazon]
4. Dawes, B. (2006). Analog in, Digital Out: Brendan Dawes on Interaction Design. New Riders. [Amazon]
5. Few, S. (2006). Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data. O’Reilly Media. [Amazon]
6. Fowler, S., & Stanwick, V. (2004). Web Application Design Handbook: Best Practices for Web-Based Software. Morgan Kaufmann. [Amazon]
7. Garrett, J. J. (2002). The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web. Peachpit Press. [Amazon]
8. Jarrett, C., & Gaffney, G. (2008). Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability. Morgan Kaufmann. [Amazon]
9. Moggridge, B. (2006). Designing Interactions. MIT Press. [Amazon]
10. Nielsen, J., & Loranger, H. (2006). Prioritizing Web Usability. New Riders Press. [Amazon]
11. Nielsen, J., & Pernice, K. (2009). Eyetracking Web Usability. New Riders. [Amazon]
12. Saffer, D. (2009). Designing for Interaction: Creating Innovative Applications and Devices. New Riders. [Amazon]
13. Sharp, H., Rogers, R., & Preece, J. (2007). Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction. John Wiley & Sons. [Amazon]
14. Shneiderman, B., Catherine, P., Cohen, M., & Jacobs, S. (2009). Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (5th Edition). Addison Wesley. [Amazon]
15. Sklar, J. (2008). Principles of Web Design. Delmar. [Amazon]
16. Smith, G. (2008). Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web. New Riders Press. [Amazon]
17. Steele, J., & Iliinsky, N. (2010). Beautiful Visualization: Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts. O’Reilly Media. [Amazon]

The following books should be available in institute of informatics (room T-419):

1. Brinck, T., Gergle, D., & Wood S. D. (2001). Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work. Morgan Kaufmann. [Amazon]
2. Krug, S. (2000). Don’t Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. New Riders. [Amazon]
3. Snyder, C. (2003). Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces. Morgan Kaufmann. [Amazon]

Unfortunately there is no complete list of books available in the institute of informatics but you can check LibraryThing, Shelfari and IMKE website.