Readings
Here is a list of some design books that I have read (or will be reading in some cases)…
* The Art of Innovation- Tom Kelly
* Design Research : Methods and Perspectives- Brenda Laurel
* Contextual Design : A Customer-Centered Approach to Systems Designs- Hugh Beyer, Karen Holtzblatt
* Where the Action Is : The Foundations of Embodied Interaction- Paul Dourish
* The design of Everyday Things- Donald Norman
* Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things- Donald Norman
* The Inmates Are Running the Asylum : Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How To Restore The Sanity- Alan Cooper
* About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design- Alan Cooper
* Designing the User Interface : Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction- Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant
* Interaction Design: Beyond Human Computer Interaction- Jennifer Preece, Yvonne Rogers, Helen Sharp
Other possibilities:
* Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces- Carolyn Snyder