Defensive Design for the Web

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1. hcarvalhoalvesJun 2023
   My favourite books on design, both fundamental and UI/UX specifically:

   - Universal Principles of Design

   - The Design of Everyday Things

   - Don't Make me Think

   - Rocket Surgery Made Easy

   - Defensive Design for the Web

   - Forms that Work

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2. ashitvoraOct 2010
   There are many books for Usability, User Experience, etc. but if you are a hard core programmer, I would recommend "Designing Web Interfaces" is good for beginners and "Defensive Design For The Web".

   Links: http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Web-Interfaces-Principles-In...

   http://www.amazon.com/Defensive-Design-Web-improve-messages/...

   Enjoy :)

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3. ashitvoraOct 2010
   There's no "The way to design" but there is "A way to design".

   I would recommend you "Defensive Design for the Web" by 37 Signals and "Designing Web Interfaces" by Bill Scott.

   These books use examples of Web Interfaces but you can apply them on anything. Be it a software or hardware.

   Also, I would say, when you design something, Dont focus much on visual appearance. First try to make things clean and ask your non-tech friends to use it. See what difficulties they face in using your product. You will learn a lot from these experiences.

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4. radleySep 2008
   Often, Interaction Design gets lumped in with Interface Design (or simply overlooked). For this I suggest:

   "Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Web Sites" by Andrew Chak (2003)

   • Similar to "Don't Make me Think", but focuses more on personal interaction & choices more than layout.

   "Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points" by 37 Signals (2004)

   • Error management (not just 404s) is one of the most overlooked UI portions of a web project and are often left up to the developers to "figure out".

   http://www.amazon.com/Submit-Now-Designing-Persuasive-VOICES...

   http://www.amazon.com/Defensive-Design-Web-improve-messages/...

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5. lindsayrgwattApr 2007
   A couple of good books to read too: 1) Don't make me think 2) Designing interfaces (by Tidwell) 3) Defensive design for the web

   Anyone have additional books that they've read?

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