Free User Experience books (Interaction design, HCI, web accessibility & Information Architecture)

Free to read online books on Interaction Design

  1. Search User Interfaces- by Marti A. Hearst
  2. Web Style Guide- by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton
  3. Designing Interfaces- by Jenifer Tidwell (Most of the book is available online, not all of it, as pointed out by Amanda)
  4. Designing Mobile Interfaces- by Steven Hoober and Eric Berkman
  5. Thoughts on Interaction Design- by John Kolko. Contributions by Ellen Beldner, Uday Gajendar, Chris Connors and Justin Petro (no longer free)

Free to read online books on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

  1. The Psychology of Menu Selection: Designing Cognitive Control at the Human/Computer Interface- by Kent L. Norman
  2. Mental Models in Human-Computer Interaction: Research Issues About What the User of Software Knows- by John M. Carroll and Judith Reitman Olson (editors)

Free to read books on Web Accessibility

  1. Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design- by Shawn Henry
  2. Building accessible websites- by Joe Clark

Free to read online books on Information Architecture

  1. Introduction to Metadata - by Tony Gill, Anne J. Gilliland, Maureen Whalen, and Mary S. Woodley
  2. Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies: Terminology for Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural Works- by Patricia Harpring
  3. Categories for the Description of Works of Art- by Murtha Baca and Patricia Harpring

Free to read online books on Design for development

  1. Wicked problems: Problems worth solving- by Jon Kolko
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31 Comments

  1. stefan said on August 6, 2009 at 11:25 pm |

    Thank you for putting this together, am gonna try and read em all!

  2. Harrison Powers said on August 7, 2009 at 1:54 am |

    How useful! Thanks!

  3. Josh said on August 7, 2009 at 10:49 am |

    Thanks for the info. Im glad I stumbled on to this post and discovered the site.

    Thanks
    Josh

  4. Gil Barros said on August 13, 2009 at 5:30 am |

    Temos o _excelente_ Designing Interactions do Bill Moggridge, um dos caras por trás da IDEO: http://designinginteractions.com/

    No site tem um capítulo por semana, junto com os vídeos do capítulo. No Faber-ludens tem legendas para alguns dos vídeos (http://www.faberludens.com.br/pt-br/node/1744).

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  5. Ananya said on August 18, 2009 at 11:23 pm |

    Sweet! Nice books. Thanks for the list :)

  6. Claudia Duarte said on September 5, 2009 at 8:51 am |

    Tem o “Designing Interfaces”, de Jenifer Tidwell. http://designinginterfaces.com/.

    E o Web style guide, de Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton, em http://www.webstyleguide.com/wsg3/index.html. Está na terceira edição, não consegui encontrar o ano, mas creio que é de 2009.

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