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Usability Bookshelf

Titles include:

• Beyer and Holtzblatt, Contextual Design: A Customer-Centered Approach to Systems Designs
• Brinck, Gergle, and Wood, Usability For The Web
• Brockmann, Writing Better Computer User Documentation
• Campbell, Usability Assessment Of Library-Related Web Sites
• Dumas and Reclish, A Practical Guide to Usability Testing
• Garrett, The Elements of User Experience
• Koyani, Bailey, Nall, et al. Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines (developed by National Cancer Institute)
• Krug, Don't Make Me Think
• Laurel, The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design
• Mayhew, The Usability Engineering Lifecycle
• Mullet and Sano, Designing Visual Interfaces
• Nielsen, Designing Web Usability
• Nielsen, Usability Engineering
• Ojakaar and Spool, Getting Them to What They Want: Designing for the Scent of Information
• Redish, User and Task Analysis for Interface Design
• Rosenfeld and Morville, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd edition
• Rubin, Handbook Of Usability Testing
• Shneiderman, Designing The User Interface
• Various authors, Articles on usability testing of library websites (in 3-ring binder)

Books are in the lab's observation room which can be entered from the Digital Media Lab (directions). Note: Some titles may not be on the shelf because they are being used within the library.

Last updated: February 2006