CS 160 Readings and References

Readings and References

Required Readings

• The Design of Sites: A Pattern Language for the Web
  by Doug Van Duyne, James Landay, and Jason Hong
• Task-Centered User Interface Design: A Practical Introduction (Shareware copy online)
  By Clayton Lewis & John Rieman,1994
• Good Web Site Design Can Lead to Healthy Sales
  By Bob Tedeschi
• Is software too hard to use?
  By David Orenstein
• The Discipline of Teams
  By Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith
• The Difference Between Web Design & GUI Design
  By Jakob Nielsen
• Nielsen's top 10 list (plus update)
  By Jakob Nielsen
• Prototyping For Tiny Fingers
  By Marc Rettig
• How Users Read on the Web
  By Jakob Nielsen
• Search and You May Find
  By Jakob Nielsen
• Heuristic Evaluation
  By Jakob Nielsen
• The Perils of Prototyping
  By Alan Cooper
• PCs could waste three working weeks a year - survey
  Harris Research survey reported by Reuters
• Discussion of guidelines for user observation
  By Kathleen Gomoll and Anne Nichol
• Using Color Effectively
  By Lawrence J. Najjar
• Designing Visual Interfaces
  By Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano

Recommended Readings

• Human-Computer Interaction
  by Alan Dix, et. al., 2nd Edition, 1998
• Developing User Interfaces
  by Dan Olsen, 1998
• Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
  by Jakob Nielsen, 1999
• Taking Computers to Task (Online)
  by W. Wayt Gibbs, appeared in Scientific American, July 1997.
• The Digital Economic Revolution (Online)
  by David R. Henderson, appeared in Red Herring, no. 46, September 1997.
• The Difference Between Web Design and GUI Design
  How Users Read on the Web, and
  Search and You May Find

Other Books and Articles We Like

• Designing The User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction
  By Ben Shneiderman, 3rd edition (1997), Addison-Wesley; ISBN: 0201694972.
  • book site with chapter intros, summaries, & links to related information
• Human-Computer Interaction
  By Alan J. Dix, et. al., 2nd edition (February 1998) Prentice Hall; ISBN: 0132398648.
  Full text search of the book.
  Errors in the book should be emailed to hcibook@hiraeth.com
  
• Developing User Interfaces
  By Dan R. Olsen, (January 1998) Morgan Kaufman Publishers; ISBN: 1558604189.
  
• Ch. 2: The Human Information Processor, from The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction
  By Stuart K. Card, Thomas P. Moran, & Allen Newell, 1983, pp. 23-83.
• Applications in Computer Graphics
  By Victoria Interrante, et. al, from SIGGRAPH '97 Course #33 Notes, 1997.
• Java in a Nutshell, 2nd edition
  By David Flanagan
• The Design of Everyday Things
  By Don Norman
• Programming As If People Mattered: Friendly Programs, Software Engineering, and Other Noble Delusions
  By Nathaniel Borenstein
• Usability Engineering
  By Jakob Nielsen
• The Cartoon Guide to Statistics
  By Larry Gonick and Woollcott Smith
• How to Lie with Statistics
  By Darrell Huff
• Designing Visual Interfaces
  By Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano
• Visual Explanations
  By Edward Tufte
• Design, Form, and Chaos
  By Paul Rand
• The New Typography
  By Jan Tschchold
• The Non-Designer's Design Book
  By Robin Williams