Course Texts

recommended

• there is a mother load of great information online
  
  
• User-Centered Website Development, by McCracken and Wolfe

• Interaction Design, by Preece, Rogers, & Sharp

• Usability Engineer, by Jakob Nielsen: a classic on usability that continues to be very worthwhile and will continue to be so

• GUI Bloopers, by Jeff Johnson: packed with practical down to earth advice

• Human-Computer Interaction, by Preece, Rogers, Sharp, Benyon, Holland and Carey: a largish reference on everything you ever wanted to know about HCI

• 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