Essential reading list for web designers and developers
Posted by: Joey Marchy on Friday December 8, 2006
Ever wonder what the superstars of web design, development, accessibility and usability are reading? I asked each of the Refresh Orlando speakers to select three essential books for their discipline.
Below you will find the favorite books from leaders in the fields of web design, information architecture, programming, usability and accessibility. This reading list is a valuable professional development list for any company in the world of interactive.
Books from: Paul Boag, Andy Budd, Garrett Dimon, Rhodes Gibson, Mike Girouard, Cameron Moll, Jared Smith, Gregg Pollack, Stephen Anderson
Paul Boag
Discipline: User Experience Specialist
- Designing with Web Standards (Zeldman)
- Dom Scripting (Jeremy Keith)
- Don’t make me think (Steve Krug)
Andy Budd
Discipline: User experience designer and web standards developer
- Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works (Kelly Goto, Emily Cotler)
- Don’t make me think (Steve Krug)
- CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions (Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Cameron Moll)
Garrett Dimon
Discipline: Information and front-end architecture
Garrett went a little overboard. He said if he had to pick three it would be the first three.
- The Complete Manual of Typography (James Felici)
- DOM Scripting (Jeremy Keith)
- Defensive Design for the Web (37signals)
- Ambient Findability (Peter Morville)
- The Zen of CSS Design (Dave Shea, Molly Holzschlag)
- Bulletproof Web Design (Dan Cederholm)
- Web Standards Solutions (Dan Cederholm)
- CSS Mastery (Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Cameron Moll)
- Bulletproof AJAX (Jeremy Keith, This isn’t out yet, but I spoke with him recently at a conference, and this book should be amazing.)
- Designing with Web Standards, 2nd Edition (Jeffrey Zeldman)
- Don’t Make Me Think (Steve Krug)
- Information Architecture (Lous Rosenfeld, Peter Morville)
- Beautiful Evidence (Edward Tufte)
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Edward Tufte)
- Envisioning Information (Edward Tufte)
- Visual Explanations (Edward Tufte)
Rhodes Gibson
Discipline: Accessibility
- Designing with Web Standards (Zeldman)
- Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works (Kelly Goto, Emily Cotler)
- More Eric Meyer on CSS (Eric Meyer)
Mike Girouard
Discipline: Programmer, Instructor
- Designing with Web Standards (Zeldman)
- Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works (Kelly Goto, Emily Cotler)
- Dom Scripting (Jeremy Keith)
Cameron Moll
Discipline: Designer, Author, Speaker
- The Elements of Typographic Style (Robert Bringhurst)
- The Design of Everyday Things (Donald A. Norman )
- Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design (Jenifer Tidwell)
Jared Smith
Discipline: Accessibility
- Building Accessible Websites (Joe Clark)
- Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance (Andrew Kirkpatrick, Richard Rutter, Christian Heilmann, Jim Thatcher, Cynthia Waddell)
- WebAIM Guide to Web Accessibility (Web Aim)
Gregg Pollack
Discipline: Programmer
- Learn to Program (Chris Pine)
- Learning Mysql (Seyed M.M. “Saied” Tahaghoghi, Hugh E. Williams)
- Agile Web Development with Rails (Dave Thomas, and David Heinemeier Hansson)
Stephen Anderson
Stephen offered summaries of why he chose each of these books. If you would like to read the summaries, send me an email
Discipline: User Experience Architect
- The Story Factor: Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion through the Art of Storytelling (Annette Simmons)
- The Art of Innovation (Tom Kelley)
- Watches Tell More Than Time (Del Coates)
- Universal Principles of Design: 100 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach Through Design (William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler)
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