Suggested Readings in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), User Interface (UI) Development, & Human Factors (HF) : User Interface Development

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Yvonne Rogers, Heken Sharp, & Jenny Preece Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction. 3rd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2011. ISBN 0-470-66576-9, 978-0-470-66576-3.

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I like this book as much as any on my list of recommended readings (I liked it enough to write the foreword to the 1st edition). While not as comprehensive as some books, it makes what I think is a good depth/breadth tradeoff. It goes into enough detail on core topics that practitioners can use it as a guidebook. It has the pedagogical features that I like to see in a textbook (outlines, summaries, bibliography). I think will be motivating to students and understandable to a wide audience, which is important to be useful and usable by multidisciplinary teams. The book has a website, as should any book in the new millennium, www.id-book.com, which contains materials for students, teachers, and practitioners.

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Deborah Hix & H. Rex Hartson. Developing User Interfaces: Ensuring Usability Through Product and Process. New York, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1993. ISBN 0-471-57813-4.

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This book generated a lot of positive reviews when it came out. The authors present a methodology for developing user interfaces, including their User Action Notation (UAN) for representing interaction between the user and the system.

Clayton Lewis & John Rieman. Task-Centered User Interface Design: A Practical Introduction. Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado, Boulder, 1993.

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This is the first shareware book on UI design, and more importantly, it is a good practical guide to UI design and evaluation, making it a good choice for a supplementary text for software engineering courses.

Deborah J. Mayhew The Usability Engineering Lifecycle: A Practitioner's Handbook for User Interface Design San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publshers, 1999. ISBN 1-55860-561-4.

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This book presents material from a decade of Mayhew's consulting and tutorials. It is a complement to her book on Principles and Guidelines.

Jonathan Lazar (Ed.) Universal Usability: Designing Computer Interfaces for Diverse User Populations. John Wiley & Sons, 2007. ISBN 0-470-02727-4.

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With articles covering young and old users, users of multiple languages, and many different accessibility issues, this collection may be an antidote to developers writing software for themselves.

Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (5th Edition, pp. 672, ISBN 0-321-53735-1, March 2009), Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.

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This popular book is in its 5th edition. Although it is a survey of user interface development, it can also be used as a guide for practitioners. There is a companion website for this book.