Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))123 reviews Jennifer Niederst Robbins O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006 Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference + A Generally Good Reference Book + Great overview / refresher for me + Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference + Very good book for CSS             Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points (VOICES)36 reviews 37signals New Riders Press, 2004 Common sense distilled This book is a nice collection of what should be common sense rules (obviously common sense is not so common, as the examples of actual web sites in the book prove). I would assume that it would be most beneficial to a beginning designer, although it's a book everyone involved with web design or ...             Photoshop Design for the Web Chulyoo Kim Wiley, 2002 This great guide covers everything you'll need to begin editing images for the Web using Photoshop 6, including working with layers, creating paths, slicing images, creating rollovers and animations, and warping text. It also includes a chapter showing 16 of the best Web sites that use Photoshop in new and exciting ways.             Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition448 reviews Steve Krug New Riders Press, 2005 Don't Make Me Think! + Great book - a must read + Good, but the last part made me think + Great + Must read for understanding Web Design             Web ReDesign: Workflow that Works75 reviews Kelly Goto, Emily Cotler New Riders Press, 2001 Excellent resource and excellent tools + Very practical + Saved us lots of time and aggravation + Kelly Goto deserves the Nobel Prize             Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites42 reviews Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006 A lifesaver + Easy to understand + Phenomenal book on information architecture + Good enough + Intriguing Title (3rdEd)             Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Web Sites (VOICES)9 reviews Andrew Chak New Riders Press, 2002 The potential to vastly improve everyone's online experience + Smart, useful and concise - just what I needed! + The Culturally Proficient School I've been involved in Website design and implementation since 1996. I don't claim to be the top designer, but the success of my sites gives me enough stature to comment on a book like this. First, the downside of this book: It was published in 2003. Consequently, some of the references and ...             Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Pioneering Series)52 reviews Dan Cederholm friends of ED, 2004 Excellent book! + Great book + A useful read for the web novice + XHTML & CSS - Start with this book!             Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites79 reviews Patrick J. Lynch, Sarah Horton Yale University Press, 1999 Um...I'd read another book instead + Helpful technical guide + Book doing a good job in sumaring what a website should do to work + Unique features to this Guide             Designing Usable Web Interfaces Ameeta D. Jadav Prentice Hall, 2002 For course in Introduction to Web Design and Development. Using simple and easy-to-understand language, analogies, actual web site examples, and a case study, this book explores the planning, conceptualizing, and designing of usable, high-quality, efficient, and effective web sites. Written from the practical perspective of web designers and developers, the focus of the book is helping readers ...             Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience14 reviews James Kalbach O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007 Your users will thank you for reading this... + Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience + Excellent Colorful and Insightful Resource + Great Resource For Web Designers             Principles of Web Design, Third Edition (Web Warrior Series)5 reviews Joel Sklar Course Technology, 2005 A Very Useful Resource, User Friendly + Principles of Web Design This was one of the better web design books that I have read. It ranks even above HTML Goodies web design books. From an experienced web designer I recommend this book greatly.             Practical Information Architecture: A Hands-On Approach to Structuring Successful Websites13 reviews Eric L. Reiss Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000 Buy it, hate it, then LOVE it! + Best introduction to an important subject + Excellent resource! I started off feeling kind of so-what about this book. There's lots of useful stuff in it, but most seemed pretty obvious. Not so! I found myself making lots of notes and underlining whole pages. By the time I was finished reading, I had figured out how to fix a usability problem I've been ...             Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become46 reviews Peter Morville O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005 Great Introduction to Search & Also Being Found. + Provocative well written This is a great introduction to some of the more important concepts in search and its corollary - beingfound. Finding information, things, or people on the Internet is one of the most important issues for today's researchers and knowledge workers. Similarly, for businesses or others with a ...             Adobe Master Class: Web Site Redesigns2 reviews Darcy DiNucci Pearson Education, 2001 A beautiful and fascinating book + Valuable insights! Instead of telling you what's wrong with a zillion websites, the author has picked a few good ones, and lets you see behind the scenes how they got that way. The sites range from big business to one-man shop, which is refreshing -- you can apply the principles here without a huge budget. You get to ...             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 + One more thing to make it more usable... + Most elaborate book + The best book for web usability..! + My usability bible             Web 2.0 Patterns: What entrepreneurs and information architects need to know Dion Hinchcliffe, James Governor O'Reilly, 2009 The "Web 2.0" phenomena has become more pervasive than ever before. It is impacting the very fabric of our society and presents opportunities for those with knowledge. The individuals who understand the trends and opportunities Web 2.0 represents are racing to cash in while Web 2.0 companies like Google see their stock pass $600 a share. While many simply describe it as an interactive "Web of ...             User-Centered Web Design5 reviews John Cato Addison Wesley Longman, 2001 A "user friendly' and practical guide + Practical, but based in good theory + Usable book for user centered design A "user friendly' and practical guide to designing or transforming personal or professional interactive websites, John Cato's User-Centered Web Design specifically focuses on designing for the end-user. A concise, readable text presents a comprehensive overview, practical advice, proven ...             Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition)122 reviews Jeffrey Zeldman Peachpit Press, 2006 Groundbreaking Work + A must read + Very good content and discussion + Great for beginners             The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web (VOICES)8 reviews Steve Mulder, Ziv Yaar New Riders Press, 2006 Fantastic, well-written book on user research and persona creation for interaction designers + Serious about user centric web design? Read and keep within reach. + Simple and clear to read + The ins and outs of personas, a must read + Almost overwhelmingly comprehensive