A friend asked me to give an introductory presentation on User Experience (UX) to her Web Design class so I created a reading list:
Key Books
- Steve Krug: Don’t Make Me Think – great starting point
- Steve Krug: Rocket Surgery Made Easy – aka user testing made easy
- Donald Norman: The Design of Everyday Things – a design classic
- Alan Cooper: The Inmates are Running the Asylum – a book about the “bad old days” of tech design
- Russ Unger & Carolyn Chandler: A Project Guide to UX Design
More In-Depth Reading
User Research
- Erika Hall: Just Enough Research
- Brad Nunnally: UX Research: Practical Techniques for Designing Better Products
Information Architecture
- Abby Covert: How to Make Sense of Any Mess
- Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Orville & Jorge Arango: Information Architecture
Interaction Design
- Alan Cooper: About Face
User Testing
- Jeffrey Rubin & Dana Chisnell: Handbook of Usability Testing
Websites
- UX Magazine
- http://www.uxbooth.com/
- http://52weeksofux.com/
- https://medium.com/tag/ux – articles by Alan Cooper, Christina Wodtke, and others
- https://alistapart.com/topic/user-experience
- Jared Spool’s User Interface Engineering (UIE)
- Nielsen Norman Group: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/
Professional Groups
- Information Architecture Institute https://www.iainstitute.org/
- User Experience Professionals Association www.nycuxpa.org
- Interaction Design Association ixda.org