Hey Craig, Is there any particular area of UX you're interested in? Research? Design? Testing?
About Face is a good tome that covers most of the field - which you've read. Don't make me think is a good light-weight read. Anything by Donald Norman (The Design of Everyday Things, Emotional Design) is also good. For someone doing rails and dabbling in the UI part of it, I think Luke Wroblewski's "Web Form Design" is seminal, otherwise mix and match from the books below depending on what you're looking for. My current UX bookshelf (dead-tree versions not included): About Face 3 - Alan Cooper Agile Experience Design - Lindsay Ratcliffe, Marc McNeill (currently reading) The Agile Samurai - Rasmusson The Black Swan - Taleb, Nassim Nicholas Card Sorting - Donna Spencer Change By Design - Tim Brown Design Driven Innovation - Roberto Verganti Designed for Use - Mathis Designing Gestural Interfaces - Dan Safter Designing Interfaces - Jenifer Tidwell Designing Web Interfaces - Bill Scott, Therasa Neill Elements of User Experience - Jesse James Garrett Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Gamestorming - Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanunfo The Innovator's Dilemma - Clayton M Christensen Measuring the User Experience - Thomas Tullis, William Albert Mental Models - Indi Young Observing the User Experience - Mike Kuniavsky Prototyping - Todd Zaki Warfel Pull - David Siegel Seductive Interaction Design - Stephen P Anderson Simple and Usable - Giles Colborne Sketching User Experiences - Bill Buxton Smart Things - Mike Kuniavksy Thinkertoys - Michael Michalko Undercover User Experience Design - Cennydd Bowles, James Box Universal Principles of Design - William Lidwell, Kritna Holden, Jill Butler Web Form Design - Luke Wroblewski J On Wednesday, 18 January, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Craig Read wrote: > I'm looking for a good book to get up to speed on UX. > > I read Alan Cooper's "About Face" (many years ago), and have heard good > things about Steve Krug's "Don't Make Me Think". Are there other books people > would recommend over that one? And are there any Rails specific UX books > people would recommend? > > Cheers, > > -- > Craig Read > @Catharz > https://github.com/Catharz > http://code.google.com/p/bsss > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
