Joe 10's Book Store: User Centered Design Archives

Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces
April 2, 2003
Price: $23.77

Though possibly a bit much of a book for the topic, it looks like an excellent indepth look at this frequently misunderstood protocol. I'll give it a read and write more...

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About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design
March 17, 2003
Price: $23.80

As far as Interaction Design goes, and specificaly what thauthors have coined "Goal Directed Design", this is the book which (in its first release) started the ball rolling.

From initial user research to persona creation and scenario based design, it's here in a very entertaining format. This revision (or, release as the "2.0" in the tile inplies) is well updated to make it once again a must have for the aspiring and vetran designer of interactive things.

as with many of these books, one thing missing is a running set of working examples, deliverable and templates to acompany the text, but I suppose a man has to keep his back to the sun when he can.

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Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web
October 16, 2002
Price: $20.39

A well written book which should appeal to the beginning to novice practitioner. A great ground work book with smatterings of Interaction Design, Information Architecture and a lot of what we call User Centered Design.

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