Resources (Literature)

Here is a list of websites and books we have found relevant to our study. This is a living list, so please email us if you know of others that you have found useful. Check back frequently for updates...

Books

• Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
  by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville
• Information Architecture- Blueprints for the Web
  by Christina Wodtke
• Envisioning Information
  by Edward R. Tufte
• About Face 2.0 - The essentials of interaction design
  by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann
• The Inmates are running the Asylum
  by Alan Cooper
• The Design of Sites
  by Douglas van Duyne
• The Design of Everyday Things
  by Donald A. Norman
• Don't Make Me Think!
  by Steve Krug
• Universal Principles of Design
  by William Lidwell
• The Humane Interface
  by Jef Raskin
• Ambient Findability
  by Peter Morville
• The Elements of User Experience
  by Jesse James Garrett
• Designing Interfaces
  by Jennifer Tidwell
• Cost-Justifying Usability, 2nd Ed.
  by Randolph Bias, Deborah Mayhew
• The Usability Engineering Lifecycle
  by Deborah Mayhew
• Observing the User Experience
  by Mike Kuniavsky
• The Persona Lifecycle
  by John Pruitt, Tamara Aidlin
• Writing Effective Use Cases
  by Alistair Cockburn
• The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization
  by Elaine Svenonius
• Understanding Your Users: Requirements Gathering in Context
  by Catherine Courage, Kathy Baxter

Journals

• Communications of the ACM
• First Monday - online journal
• Journal for American Society of Information Science & Technology

Websites

• AIGA
• American Society for Information Science and Tecnology (ASIST)
• Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture(AIFIA)
• Boxes and Arrows
• Don Norman's Web site
• Elegant Hack (Christina Wodtke)
• IA\
• Jesse James Garrett's Web site
  
• Usability Professionals' Association (UPA)
• Useit.com (Jakob Nielsen)