listmania: must-reads for web people

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1 July 2004

M'colleague Jolanda is leaving, and looking for a list of reference books she'll need in her new role as web manager for a large statutory authority.

Here's my current shortlist of books:

• The Design of Everyday Things (aka The Psychology of Everyday Things) and Emotional Design by Donald Norman

• The Art and Science of Web Design by Jeffrey Veen

• Edward Tufte's three classics: Envisioning Information; The Visual Display of Quantitative Information; and Visual Explanations

• Observing the User Experience: a practitioner's guide to user research by Mike Kuniavsky

• The Cluetrain Manifesto by Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, David Weinberger

• Small Pieces Loosely Joined by David Weinberger

• Web Word Wizardry by Rachel McAlpine

• Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug

• Web ReDesign: workflow that works by Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler

All the links are to Amazon.com listings. Feel free to buy these books elsewhere :-)

As well, you'll want to bookmark some web sites. Try these for starters:

• Adaptive Path essays and Adaptive Path reports

• Boxes and Arrows

• Usability News

• A List Apart

• Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAIM)

• Digest of Usability Resources and News (DURN)

• For media relations and PR, Online Journalism Review and Poynter

• Essays by Jared Spool and his business partners

• Intranet Journal

• Usability News

• Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox

• Digital Web

• This Is Broken

• Web Developers' Journal

• Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO)

• Office for the Information Economy, Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts

2004 flipsocks:

17 Dec: the sock has flipped
10 Dec: anything anywhere any time
3 Dec: instant flattery
26 Nov: the steamroller of branding
19 Nov: fried v rice
5 Nov: the page with no name
29 Oct: and then there were none
22 Oct: filled with naughty laughter
15 Oct: get souls and disconcert the public
8 Oct: ooh, aah, ooh
1 Oct: pinch and a punch
24 Sep: design is the new art
17 Sep: footsteps of Aeneas
10 Sep: slow art, viral aesthetic
3 Sep: I can see your house from here
27 Aug: forever blowing bubbles
20 Aug: jargon for the digital age
13 Aug: beautiful plumage, the Norwegian blue
6 Aug: brokenated terribility
23 Jul: Alice underground
16 Jul: color-coded
2 Jul: for so long treated as nouns
25 Jun: looking for love, echidna-style
18 Jun: joy-to-stuff ratio
11 Jun: fun's fun but a girl can't dance all night
4 Jun: pink dinosaur
28 May: two people every minute
21 May: incompitnce [sic]
14 May: zygomatic smile
5 May: mailbox
30 Apr: bananaguard
23 Apr: mmmmmWAH!
15 Apr: playtime
8 Apr: googlewhack
2 Apr: we wish to inform you...
18 Mar: daffy dills
12 Mar: echo chamber
9 Jan: refund profologies

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Teresa
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Claire
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Iain
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