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Websites

www.asktog.com

Lively commentary about software design and usability issues.

www.boxesandarrows.com

Source for the complex task of bringing architecture and design to the digital landscape.

Microsoft User Interface Design and Development

The User Interface Guidelines are essential for anyone designing Windows UI.

www.useit.com

Jakob Nielsen's web site articles about web design, hypertext, and userinterfaces.

Books (links are to amazon.com)

Beyer, Hugh and Karen Holtzblatt. Contextual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.

A reference to Contextual Design a customer-centered design process. It explains the principles behind Contextual Design and shows how to use them to address different problems, constraints, and organizational situations.

Cooper, Alan. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum. Indianapolis, Indiana: SAMS, 1999.

Interaction design philosophy and description of Goal-Directed design.

Norman, Donald A. The Design of Everyday Things. New York: Basic Books, 1990.

Excellent examples of how human beings interact with every day things and how design affects this interaction.

Rosenfeld, Louis and Peter Morville. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly and Associates, 1988.

Great book on designing web sites.

Schrage, Michael. Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies Simulate to Innovate. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2000.

How companies use prototypes to become innovative. Insights into the political ramifications of prototypes.

Winograd, Terry, ed. Bringing Design to Software. New York: ACM Press, 1996.

A collection of design essays that provides a diverse view of what it takes to design good software.

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