Course Texts

Text Books:

required

• Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems by Steve Krug

recommended

• Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug
• Designing Interfaces Patterns for Effective Interaction Design by Jenifer Tidwell
• Interaction Design, Preece, Rogers and Sharp: former text for this course
• GUI Bloopers, by Jeff Johnson: packed with practical down to earth advice
• Design of Everyday Things, by Donald Norman: an amazing and informative rant
• Usability Engineer, by Jakob Nielsen: a classic on usability that continues to be very worthwhile and will continue to be so
• User and Task Analyses for Interface Design, by Hackos and Redish: an authoritative text that covers just about every aspect of task analysis

Note: if available, copies of the texts will be put on reserve in the library