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Here are books of interest to interface designers and others working on usability. You might also want to have a look at our web design page.


1.		Handbook of Usability Testing: Howto Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests from Wiley Price: $25.88 Customer Review: A very good review of testing for the web. It is one of the three or four title worth reading on this subject	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition from New Riders Press Price: $21.99 Customer Review: Got this book for a class, But read it cover to cover. It is an easy and fun read. Well written, and puts a different perspective on web design. A must have for anyone working with web page design.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics (Interactive Technologies) from Morgan Kaufmann Price: $24.94 Customer Review: I once took an introductory statistics course in order to learn what this book has to offer; I was presented with a lot more in terms of pure stats knowledge, yet I retained a fraction of what I've learned by reading through this book. Measuring the User Experience is hands down an essential... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Prioritizing Web Usability from New Riders Press Price: $12.52 Customer Review: Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger paired together to create a book packed with the information necessary on what it takes to create a user-friendly Web site. Prioritizing Web Usability hits the center of the target on what the main problems with usability are. This book was written based on a study... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems from New Riders Press Price: $18.46 Customer Review: Good ideas, good book, you can read it during a long trip of 8 hours, and start working with your own usability tests.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Eyetracking Web Usability from New Riders Press Price: $24.99 Customer Review: It's nice to read a marketing book that actually has substance. The majority of them are 99% fluff. The research in this book is ground-breaking and I have already implemented it to improve several websites.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Designing Web Usability from Peachpit Press Price: $10.50 Customer Review: This book came in pristene condition. It is out of print, but my instructor was AMAZED at what a nice book I received over the net. I've already sung the praises of Amazon. Thanks!!	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed from New Riders Press Price: $19.95 Customer Review: I always refer to this book before making any updates/changes to my home page/website. I would also recommend Jakob Nielsen's website for additional usability resources/information.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Moderating Usability Tests: Principles and Practices for Interacting (Interactive Technologies) from Morgan Kaufmann Price: $21.38 Customer Review: If you would like to get a good understanding of what it takes to facilitate a usability test, this is a perfect guide. It provides an incredibly insightful overview of the entire process paying particular attention to the issue of interacting with the participants. You will get tons of practical... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		Usability Engineering (Interactive Technologies) from Morgan Kaufmann Price: $24.00 Customer Review: I'm not a usability expert, and this didn't quite match up with what I hoped to get out a of class on software evaluation for librarians (but that has more to do with the professor's slant on the subject and choice of book), but the book was easy to read and I felt that it covered some good points.... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests (Wiley Technical Communications Library) from Wiley Price: $5.99 Customer Review: The title 'handbook of usability testing' is aptly chosen. The author takes the reader by hand through the process of designing and performing a usability test. The activities are described in sufficient detail for someone to start designing his or her own experiments. And most chapters contain... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of Human-Computer Interaction (Interactive Technologies) from Morgan Kaufmann Price: $47.76 Customer Review: A very good book mainly focused on Scenario-Based analysis which you can actually use in every other subject and aspects of your life (even if you are choosing between trips). I bought this book as a text book for an HCI subject in VT and it was interesting to follow.	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Selling Usability: User Experience Infiltration Tactics from CreateSpace Price: $24.93 Customer Review: This book is excellent - insightful, relevant and most specifically written in a way that demonstrates lots of personal experience and success from thinking strategically. In fact, while reading -- it felt like John actually had first hand knowledge of the challenges I face in my current role. His... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		When Search Meets Web Usability from New Riders Press Price: $16.99 Customer Review: This book does a great job of explaining how to strike the right balance between search engine considerations and site usability. Concepts are clearly and effectively explained even for non-technical audiences, even while technical aspects are covered appropriately. I didn't expect anything less... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Usability Inspection Methods from Wiley Price: $144.00 Customer Review: This book is academic and a dry read. There are better books out there which address this same material that makes for an easier read. But if you want to read the original work that paved the road for those books and usability now, here it is. Academic research that is usability's foundation!	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability from Wiley Price: $26.44 Customer Review: I found the book "Site-Seeing" to be one of the most accurate & inspiring books I've ever read. The concepts will improve your work and can be applied beyond your career. Nice job Luke. No other book I found has covered these concepts as comprehensively as you did; therefore, I highly recommend... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		Institutionalization of Usability: A Step-by-Step Guide from Addison-Wesley Professional Price: $29.92 Customer Review: Eric Schaffer is CEO of Human Factors International, an exceptional company dedicated to the proliferation of institutionalized usability. Eric's brilliant insights are elaborated upon in this must-read book for usability professionals. And if you can, I would suggest you take the HFI CUA-track... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work (Interactive Technologies) from Morgan Kaufmann Price: $24.99 Customer Review: This book contains a lot of usable usability practices that really works! You can get literally all the details of usability testing practices in this book, as well as how to run them. And good amount of pages are spent for user needs analysis and task analysis as the first steps explaining Web site... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		A Step-by-Step Guide to Usability Testing from iUniverse, Inc. Price: $9.92 Customer Review: It is very handy and easy to find what you want to know. But, each chapter is kept very short and compact, if you want to know the topic in depth, you have to refer other books. So, I recommend this book for beginners and others' quick check use. Also, there is no chapter on how to analyze the data... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Usability Testing and Research (Part of the Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication) from Longman Price: $119.98 Customer Review: I'm frankly startled at the universally positive reviews for this book. As a full-time usability researcher and an alumnus of Apple's human interface technologies team, I felt this to be one of the worst books on usability I've ever read. I could not possibly recommend it for either academic or... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information