10 Usability and Interaction Design Books

Source from: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/24/usability-and-interface-design-books/

1. About Face 3. The Essentials of Interaction Design
by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann and David Cronin
ISBN: 978-0470084113
http://www.cooper.com/insights/books/

2. Prioritizing Web Usability
by Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger
ISBN: 978-0321350312
http://www.useit.com/prioritizing/

3. Designing the Obvious. A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design
by Robert Hoekman, Jr.
ISBN: 978-0321453457
http://www.rhjr.net/dto

4. Don’t Make Me Think. A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
by Steve Krug
ISBN: 978-0321344755
http://www.sensible.com/

5. The Design of Sites. Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites
by Douglas Van Duyne, James Landay, Jason Hong.
ISBN: 978-0131345553
http://www.designofsites.com/

6. The Design of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman
ISBN: 978-0465067107
http://www.jnd.org/books.html

7. Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design
by Jenifer Tidwell
ISBN: 978-0596008031
http://jtidwell.net/

8. Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices
by Dan Saffer
ISBN: 978-0321432063
http://www.designingforinteraction.com/

9. Designing Interactions
by Bill Moggridge
ISBN: 978-0262134743
http://www.designinginteractions.com/book

10. Envisioning Information
by Edward R. Tufte
ISBN: 978-0961392116
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_ei

11. Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction
by Jenny Preece, Yvonne Rogers and Helen Shar
ISBN: 978-0471492788
http://www.id-book.com/

12. The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
by Jef Raskin
ISBN: 978-0201379372
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface

13. Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction
by Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant
ISBN: 978-0321269782
http://www.pearson.ch/HigherEducation/ComputerScience/Human-ComputerInteraction/1471/9780321269782/Designing-the-User-Interface-Strategies.aspx

14. Thoughtful Interaction Design: A Design Perspective on Information Technology
by Jonas Löwgren, Erik Stolterman
ISBN: 78-0262122719
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10334

20 Useful Visualization Libraries

1. Prefuse (Java) & FLAIR (Flex) 
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 2. simile (AJAX)

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 3. Processing (Java)

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4. GigaPan (Service)

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5. Modest Maps (Flash, Python)

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6. Google Visualization API (Javascript)

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7. Google Chart API (Javascript)

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8. Google Maps API (Javascript, Flash)

9. GraphViz (Wrappers for a dozen languages including Java, Perl, Python.  Free.) 

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10. JFree (Java)

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11. pChart (PHP)

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12. OpenLayers (JavaScript)

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13. Anti-Grain (C++)

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14. JGraph (Java)

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15. Boost Graph Library (C++, phyton wrapper)

16. Open Flash Chart (Flash)

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17. Ubigraph (Wrappers for Python, Java, C, and more)

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18. JUNG (Java)

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19. TimeMap (Java)

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20. Many Eyes (online service)

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Source: http://abeautifulwww.com/2008/09/08/20-useful-visualization-libraries/

I Love Oreilly

They publish a lot of IT related books.
Now, they let us have a on line preview of their book’s content, which is talking about near 80% of content.

Students, please go to see it and don’t told me that you feel diffcult to found books any more.

http://search.oreilly.com/?q=Design+interface

My current reading: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596518394/preview.html

Toxic Villages in China by http://current.com/

Bad! It was bad to know that it is happened in my country!
Suprised!!! I was suprised that it is happened at the location ( 汕頭市 潮陽區 貴嶼鎮 ) where is very closed to my university (Shantou university)!
A bit better… It is good to know that my university are researching this issue in our mother land!

Students, please be good to use your electronic devices even it is not hot and sexy anymore.