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Information Architecture Overload

by davidcrow

I can’t take it anymore. I went to “The Worlds Biggest Bookstore” last night on the way home hoping to find a new book about user interface design, information architecture, or usability that I could use as a text book. I was stunned at the number of new books in these fields. There were over 20 new titles on the book shelf about information architecture, usability, interface design, web usability, flash usability, and accessibliity.

Somebody tell me am I supposed to buy a copy of every one of these books so that I can effectively recommend them to my clients and students?

Here is the list of books I found (including some that are to be published in the near future):

The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web by Jesse James Garrett, 2002

Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web by Christina Wodtke, 2002

Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work by Tom Brinck, Dareen Gergle, and Scott D. Wood, 2001

User-Centered Web Design by Jon Cato, 2001

Shaping Web Usabilty: Interaction Design in Context by Albert N. Badre, 2002

Constructing Accessible Web Sites by Jim Thatcher, Cynthia Waddell, Shawn Henry, Sarah Swierenga, Mark Urban, Michael Burks, Bob Regan, and Paul Bohman, 2002

Web Usability and Navigation by Merlyn Holms, 2002

Usability: The Site Speaks for Itself by Kelly Braun, Max Gadney, Matthew Haughey, Adrian Roselli, Don Synstelien, Tom Walter, David Wertheimer, Molly E. Holzschlag, and Bruce Lawson, 2002

Constructing Usable Web Menus by Andy Beaumont, Dave Gibbons, Jody Kerr, and John Stephens, 2002

Usable Forms for the Web by Jon James, Andy Beaumont, John Stephens, and Chris Ullman, 2002

Building Accessible Websites (With CD-ROM) by Joe Clark, 2002

Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities by Michael Paciello, 2002

Maximum Accessibilty: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone by John M. Slatin and Sharron Rush, 2002

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites (2nd Edition) by Louis Rosenfeldand Peter Morville, 2002

The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience by Douglas K. van Duyne, James A. Landay, and Jason I. Hong, 2002

Handheld Usability by Scott Weiss, 2002

Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies by Ben Shneiderman, 2002

Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability by Luke Wroblewski, 2002

Skip Intro: Flash Usability and Interface Design by Duncan McAlester and Michelangelo Capraro, 2002

Flash 99% Good: A Guide to Macromedia Flash Usability by Kevin Airgid and Stephanie Reindel, 2002

The Flash Usability Guide: Interacting with Flash MX by Chris MacGregor, Crystal Waters and David Doull, 2002

Quality Web Systems: Performance, Security, and Usability by Elfriede Dustin, Jeff Rashka, Douglas McDiarmind and Jakob Nielsen, 2001

A Pattern Language for Web Usability by Ian Graham, 2003—not published yet

E-Commerce Usability: Tools and Techniques to Perfect the Online Experience by David Travis, 2002—not published yet

Customer-Centered Design: A New Approach to Web Usability by Kreta Chandler and Karen Hyatt, 2002

Web Usability for Dummies by Richard Mander and Bud E. Smith, 2001

Web Site Usability Handbook by Mark Pearrow, 2000

The Wireless Web Handbook by Mark Pearrow, 2002

Back to the User: Creating User-Focused Web Sites by Tammy Sachs and Glen McClain, 2002

Posted on November 6, 2002 Filed Under: Articles

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