Information Experience Design

This is a foundational text for aspiring UX experts and designers. You will need to know about this book!

A critical text on usability and the web. Krug has a great sense of humor and explains important web design concepts in a way that is very friendly and intuitive for newcomers.

"How should designers, engineers, architects, policy makers, and others design such technology? Who should be involved and what values are implicated In Value Sensitive Design, Batya Friedman and David Hendry describe how both moral and technical imagination can be brought to bear on the design of technology. With value sensitive design, under development for more than two decades, Friedman and Hendry bring together theory, methods, and applications for a design process that engages human values at every stage." --Provided by the Publisher

an overview of the field of interaction design. also available as an eBook

Practical information on planning studies, metrics, and case studies

Based on one of the largest studies of eyetracking usability in existence used rigorous methodology and eyetracking technology to analyze 1.5 million instances where users look at Web sites.

"This is a practical book about how to measure the user experience of websites, software, mobile apps, products, or just anything people use. This book is for UX researchers, designers, product owners, or anyone that has a vested interest in improving experience of websites and products"--Introduction.

"Current conventions of UX design apply mostly to visual user interfaces, such as web or mobile; they are less useful for deciding how to organize utterances, by the user and the virtual agent, into sequences that work like those of natural human conversation. This edited book explores the intersection of UX design, of both text- or voice-based virtual agents, and the analysis of naturally occurring human conversation (e.g., the Conversation Analysis, Discourse Analysis and Interactional Sociolinguistics literatures)."--Provided by the Publisher

"James Vlahos shows that we are on the cusp of the next shift: to voice computing. Siri and Alexa are early forms of this technology, but the day is coming when we'll talk as fluently with our phones, appliances, cars, etc. as we do with any human. Vlahos explains the enormous AI challenges that voice computing presents, and unpacks its vast economic, cultural, and psychological impact. " --Provided by the Publisher