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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this book.We should pitch in and buy the design team at Mashable a few copies of http://www.amazon.com/Think-Common-Sense-Approach-Usability/...
Read Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug. http://www.amazon.com/Think-Common-Sense-Approach-Usability/...Read everything on Jakob Nielsen's blog about Usability: http://useit.com/
⬐ msutherlIt's good to read these guys, but it's nowhere near sufficient. Over time I've lost my fondness of Nielsen. He's too much of an engineer and doesn't understand subjective factors. Ever notice that his website has very poor usability due to inappropriate (read: lazy) use of typography and proportion?
Well I agree. The classic is still valid : http://www.amazon.com/Think-Common-Sense-Approach-Usability/...Everything from there has been sort of copies. I find it more interesting to dig into the human brain and related books. Ie. cognitive psychology and how our brain perceives things. The difference between cultures etc. That's where you really learn the WHY and HOW.
I'd highly suggest reading "Don't Make Me Think"http://www.amazon.com/Think-Common-Sense-Approach-Usability/...
It's more of a usability book, but it covers some visual aspects to design. Beyond that it comes down to reading, practicing, critiquing and being critiqued. Any time you visit a new website think to yourself: what looks good, what looks bad, what is intuitive, and what doesn't make sense.
I was searching yesterday, the results only really offered good stuff for typography learning (which I'm working on now), but overall graphic / web design are left out a bit.Here are the resources I drilled out of the threads I came across:
Type: http://www.amazon.com/Logo-Lettering-Bible-Leslie-Cabarga/dp... http://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Design-Manual-Principles-Pract... http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Brin... http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Typographic-...
Usability: http://www.amazon.com/Think-Common-Sense-Approach-Usability/...
Design: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592532616?ie=UTF8&tag=... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592533485?ie=UTF8&tag=... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159253192X?ie=UTF8&tag=... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592532349?ie=UTF8&tag=...
Web Design: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0975841963?ie=UTF8&tag=... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/032145345X?ie=UTF8&tag=... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1847192505?ie=UTF8&tag=... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735712069?ie=UTF8&tag=...
Sites: http://dribbble.com/ http://www.deviantart.com http://forrst.com/ http://lookslikegooddesign.com/ http://webtypography.net/toc/ http://ui-patterns.com/
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability http://www.amazon.com/Think-Common-Sense-Approach-Usability/...It's a quick read that will give you tons of "A ha!" moments.
When I began, my friend had me start here: http://www.amazon.com/Think-Common-Sense-Approach-Usability/...
I had an arduino board and the books "don't make me think" http://www.amazon.com/Think-Common-Sense-Approach-Usability/... and "programming clojure" http://pragprog.com/titles/shcloj/programming-clojure
⬐ ErrantXYup I got an arduino too. Absolutely GREAT fun.So far the best project I want to aim for is a UAV (http://www.diydrones.com) - either that or as a controller unit for a coil gun.
Any other suggestions for us?? :D
⬐ bnmrrsI got an Arduino last year and just finished a medium scale project. I hooked it up to a http://hexbug.com for remote control over a network with XMPP. If you want to take a look all of the code is at http://github.com/bnmrrs/HexBugNc
From Krug's Book "Don't Make Me Think" http://www.amazon.com/Think-Common-Sense-Approach-Usability/...A must read.
Along the same lines, "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug provides an awesome Usability foundation. (Better than Nielson, IMO.)http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/078972...
⬐ zaidfAh, how did I miss that:) It's the last UI book I bought.