Interaction design, user experience and usability

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List of subfields (including infamous abbreviations)

• User interaction and user interface design (Interaction Design=IxD)
• User experience (UX) and user experience design (UxD)
• Ergonomics (also called "human factors") and Cognitive ergonomics
• Human-computer interaction (HCI)
• Usability and Web usability
• Information architecture (sometimes: IA)

List of design and evaluation methods and techniques:

• Design and usability methods and techniques
• Web prototyping software and Web wireframe
• User-centered design (UCD), overview page)

Links

Overviews

• What is Design? (Yes, all 10 definitions!), Frank Spillers, oct. 2007.
• List of human–computer interaction topics (Wikipedia)

Study programs

• Carnegie Mellon School of Design
• Master of Science in HCI with Ergonomics at University College London (UCL).

Bibliographz

This is a common bibliography for all related articles.

• Badre, Al (2002) Shaping Web usability—interaction design in context, Addison Wesley Professional, ISBN 0201729938.
  • book preview by Jean Scholtz, Interactions Magazine, Volume 9 Issue 3, May 2002
  • Safari online version

• Brooke, John, 1996. SUS: A "quick and dirty" usability scale. In P. W. Jordan, B. Thomas, B. A. Weerdmeester, & I. L. McClelland (Eds.), Usability evaluation in industry (pp. 189–194). London: Taylor & Francis. DOC format

• Cooper, Alan (2004). The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity. Sams - Pearson Education. ISBN 0672326140.

• Dreyfuss Henry (2003). Designing for People. New York: Allworth Press. ISBN 9781581153125

• Garret, Jesse James (2002), The Elements of USer Experience, User-Centered Design for the Web, New Riders Publishing. The book homepage, includes a free central diagram plus free chapter two.

• Hackos, JoAnn T. and Janice C. Redish (1998). User and Task Analysis for Interface Design. John Wiley. ISBN 0471178314

• Horton, Sarah (2002). Access by Design, New Riders, ISBN 0-321-31140-X.

• Horton, Sarah (2005). Acces by Design online at Universal Usability: A universal design approach to web usability.

• Krug, Steve (2006), Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, New Riders, ISBN 9780321344755

• Krug, Steve (2009), Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems, New Riders, ISBN 0321657292.

• Lynch, Patrick J. and Sarah Horton (2009), Web Style Guide, Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, 3rd Edition, Yale University Press. ISBN 0300137370. (see also the free version)

• Lynch, Patrick J. and Sarah Horton (2009), Web Style Guide Online (Free).

• Moggridge Bill (2007). Designing Interactions. The MIT Press. ISBN 0262134748.

• Rubin, Jeffrey and Dana Chisnell (2008). Handbook of usability testing : how to plan, design, and conduct effective tests, Wiley, ISBN 9780470185483

• Unger Russ; Carolyn Chandler (2009). A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making, New Riders, ISBN 0321607376

See also:

• 20 User Experience Books you should own (2009)
• uxbooks
• Nick’s Top User Experience Books (2009)