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Web Usability: A User-Centered Design Approach
Jonathan Lazar

Addison Wesley, 2005

Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work (Interactive Technologies)

10 reviews
Tom Brinck, Darren Gergle, ...

Morgan Kaufmann, 2001

Seven user navigation models are excellent
This book contains a lot of usable usability practices that really works! You can get literally all the details of usability testing practices in this book, as well as how to run them. And good amount of pages are spent for user needs analysis and task analysis as the first steps explaining Web site engineering approach. When reading this book, my first impression was that many worksheets, ...

Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works (Interactive Technologies) (Interactive Technologies)

18 reviews
Janice (Ginny) Redish

Morgan Kaufmann, 2007

One of the best books in the field
I'm a big fan of technical communication texts. This book is exceptional, and stands apart from others in many ways: - Many technical communication texts repeat the same rote guidelines. Although this book does not ignore the "classic" rules (e.g., "Write in inverted pyramid style"; "Use space effectively"), many of the rules are unexpected or even contrarian (e.g., "Use a sans-serif font"; ...

Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works (2nd Edition) (VOICES)

69 reviews
Kelly Goto, Emily Cotler

Peachpit Press, 2004

The best treatment of the web design process around
I have my quibbles with this book, but they are all very minor. It could stand an update, but what web book over 6 months old couldn't. I have to give it five stars because it is head and shoulders above anything else.

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

418 reviews
Steve Krug

New Riders Press, 2005

Very good book for the do it yourselfer
Everyone in our IT department that has anything to do with our products SDLC had to read this book. At first I was a little reluctant since it was "required", however, the book is a very good read. It was easy to understand and a pretty quick read. The author used plain English and broke down anything that might be new to the "usability newbie". If you are looking for a book to get you ...

Designing Web Usability (VOICES)

232 reviews
Jakob Nielsen

Peachpit Press, 1999

Very nice book
this is a very good book about web usability and its not a complex kind of book, you start reading it and u dont want to stop it untill you finish it!

Prioritizing Web Usability (VOICES)

22 reviews
Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger

New Riders Press, 2006

Phenomenally Useful -- worth its weight in gold
Here it is Feb 2007, and I've had a website for my business since Feb of 2002. For five years I've been asking people to visit my site and give me feedback for how to improve it. What I usually got back was "lots of great information, Dan." "Easy-to-use navigation." "Loved it. Great site." That wasn't what I was looking for. I wanted a REAL critique with REAL suggestions for how to make it ...

Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience

11 reviews
James Kalbach

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

Great Resource For Web Designers
'Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience' is a great resource for web designers and developers that are looking to create and/or improve web navigation for new or existing sites. Fill with ~400 pages of full color content, this book features a great layout and easiest to use color tabs for navigating this text. If you go solely off of the layout and navigation of this book, you ...

Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines

2 reviews
Sanjay J. Koyani, Robert W. Bailey, ...

Computer Psychology, 2004

Buy the Book
These guidelines are available for free on the web at http://usability.gov/pdfs/guidelines.html. But, the best way to view then is on paper and not on your computer monitor. Do be warned if you try to print, you will need a color printer, as much of the information is lost in black and white. So, save yourself a big hassle and the cost of much toner/ink - buy the book! The 187 peer-reviewed ...

Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability

9 reviews
Luke Wroblewski

Wiley, 2002

Visual & "wordy" is what makes this book great!
As a fan of Site-Seeing, I must respond to a few of the reviews asserting that the author should have condensed certain material in the book. For me, the many visual examples and the great, detailed explanations (one reviewer suggested "wordy") are exactly what makes this book so useful. Rather than just skimming over important design concepts, the author actually takes the time to properly ...

Web Design for ROI: Turning Browsers into Buyers & Prospects into Leads

22 reviews
Lance Loveday, Sandra Niehaus

New Riders Press, 2007

Easy to Consume Web Strategy Knowledge
Did you like "Don't Make Me Think?" If so, this is a must-have addition to your core web strategy, design, and marketing knowledge library. Who wrote this book and why does it matter? Luckily, I had the opportunity to see the authors, Lance and Sandra, present at a recent web conference and I was blown away by their insight into lead generation and how effectively they could communicate it. ...

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites

40 reviews
Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006

A lifesaver
As project manager, I was in a bind when our contract information architect failed to understand the complexities of our matrixed business model and client base. Rosenfeld's book helped me design a IA for our 700 page HTML site that has since been described as simple, intuitive, a no-brainer. What great compliments! The book describes basic theories of IA in general (i.e. book indexes ...

Shaping Web Usability: Interaction Design in Context

5 reviews
Albert N. Badre

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002

Required reading for people serious about Web design
Clear and rigorous, Dr. Badre's book is an essential resource for the serious Web practitioner. Going beyond the usual lists of do's and don'ts, he gives the reader a strong grounding in the field of usability and how its principles apply to the Web. Web designers and implementors who read Shaping Web Usability will not only know what to do, but why -- so they can respond successfully to new and ...

A Pattern Language for Web Usability

4 reviews
Ian Graham

Pearson Education, 2003

Ian's outdone himself this time!
"Wu" is brilliant. This book is a template for wringing coherent exposition out of chaos. While there are many web-topic books that promise to instill the secrets of designing for information access, this is the first web "how-to" I've read that actually delivers the goods. Graham has broken away from the pack by using pattern language analysis to derive guidelines for design decisions, instead ...

Web ReDesign: Strategies for Success
Kelly Goto

lynda.com, Inc, 2006

Today's web landscape is quickly changing, and web companies, in-house teams, designers, and developers are racing to keep up. Web Redesign: Strategies for Success teaches the techniques and tools to help move teams in the right direction, whether they need to do a complete redesign or just need to supplement an ongoing strategy. Instructor Kelly Goto develops strategy based on an iterative approach, focusing on branding and audience, ...

Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers (VOICES)

5 reviews
Sarah Horton

New Riders Press, 2005

Clear, precise, impeccable
Access by Design doesn't waste time or words getting right to the point: accessible Web design isn't about those who have an impairment, but rather about everyone using the Web. Access, by Sarah Horton's definition, is the goal of every visitor to a site, and a designer achieves this goal for visitors by ensuring that nothing in a site is tied to a restrictive approach. The fad of rendering ...

Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed (VOICES)

72 reviews
Jakob Nielsen, Marie Tahir

New Riders Press, 2001

Detailed Oriented Examples for Good Content
It was a while ago when I read this book, about 3 years ago and I still remember how extremely informational and what an eye opener it was to learn all sorts of content do's and don'ts along with the usability guidelines it has.

Web Engineering

1 review

Springer, 2005

Web Engineering - A New Engineering Discipline at the Horizon
Have you recently been tried to create a web page or web application or tried to web enable an existing application? Have you researched how this should be done best before you started to create the program code? If so, you may have come across "Web Engineering", edited by Emilia Mendes and Nile Mosley. The editors make the claim that an established engineering discipline like Software ...

Web Site Usability (Interactive Technologies)

33 reviews
Jared Spool, Tara Scanlon, ...

Morgan Kaufmann, 1998

Pivotal work shakes preconceptions
As a report on a major usability study this one is probably pivotal and I would recommend it to anyone involved in delivering a commercial web presence. Jared Spool and the UIE team discovered many new things in the studies this book is about. Up to the point of publication, web usability and general usability were closely equated, and not just the test methodology. But Spool's studies find ...

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