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On My Bookshelf : Recommended Reading
"Garbage In - Garbage Out." This was the mantra of my very first computer programming instructor way back in junior high school. The basic idea is that a computer program is only as good as the person who wrote it. The instructor was one of those people who vigorously defended the computer whenever there was a question of who to blame. In retrospect, it's funny that this ideology is probably the root of so many usability problems where the developer/programmer/etc. believes that the user is always to blame. Although I don't believe that it is incumbent upon users to know everything, I do believe the G.I.G.O. idea. To that end, here is a list of some of the garbage that I've been feeding myself.
At Bat: (Reading Now)
The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and Life
Laurie Beth Jones
Information Design
Edited by Robert Jacobson
Inside Lightwave [6]
by Dan Alban
How to Use Your Eyes
by James Elkins
The Te of Piglet
by Benjamin Hoff
On Deck: (Next in Line)
Type In Motion : Innovations in Digital Graphics
by Jeff Bellantoni, Matt Woolman
Designing Large-Scale Web Sites : A Visual Design Methodology.
by Darell Sano
Brand Leadership : Building Assets in the Information Society
by David A. Aaker, Erich Joachimsthaler
Baserunners: (Finished, but Notable)
The Design of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman
The Art & Science of Web Design
by Jeffrey Veen
DON'T MAKE ME THINK!
by Steve Krug
Interface Culture : How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate.
by Steven Johnson
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville
Web Site Usability : A Designer's Guide
by Jared M. Spool
Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity
by Jakob Nielsen
The Tao of Pooh
by Benjamin Hoff
Cascading Style Sheets : The Definitive Guide
by Eric A. Meyer
Film Directing Shot by Shot : Visualizing from Concept to Screen
by Steven D. Katz
Secrets of Successful Web Sites : Project Management on the World Wide Web
by David Siegel
Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines : Apple Computer Staff
by David Siegel