Interaction Design literature

Books

• Don't make me think - by Steve Krug, 2000. Excellent introduction to the most common mistakes and tips in website interaction.
• About Face - by Alan Cooper, 2003. Must-read for Interaction Designers and developers.
• Mapping web sites by Paul Kahn and Krzysztof Lenk (2001) ISBN 90-72007-74-3. A lot of examples of site maps from 1996 to 2001, but does not go very deep in analysis.

Articles

Periodicals

• UIEtips - weekly e-mail newsletter from User Interface Engineering: UIEtips is our free weekly e-mail newsletter providing articles, commentaries, and interviews on usability, web design, and information architecture. You'll get our latest research delivered to your door as well as information about our upcoming events and happenings in the world of usability.
• Articles from User Interface Engineering - articles published in UIEtips. Topics: Search, User Behavior, Emerging Technologies, User Research & Personas, Web Design Strategies, Design Tools & Techniques, User Testing, Online Branding
• forUse - the Newsletter of Usage-Centered Design - forUse is an electronic newsletter published by e-mail approximately 9 times a year. forUse covers new developments in usage-centered design. Regularly features include tips and techniques on design, modeling, and management, questions and answers on technical issues in usage-centered design, plus news and upcoming events. Subscribers get early notice of new papers and publications, and the newsletter features complement material on the Web site.

Individual articles

• RUP & Goal-Directed Design: Toward a New Development Process by Dave Cronin
• Articles and Papers on Information Architecture - list of articles from eleganthack.com

Websites

• InfoDesign: To surf the community - "bogieland.com" -- News aggregation site, updated daily. Greate starting point for all things related to interaction design: accessibility, information design, information architecture, user experience, usability, visual design...
• uidesign.net - Volunteer site - At uidesign.net, we want to study the processes, the strategies, the patterns and the aesthetics of Interaction Design and Interface Implementation. We want to raise UI Design to a more sophisticated level than it has been before. This site wants to be above field alignment problems, above action-object, object-action debates, above metaphor. We want to move things to a new, more practical level. We want to put some science and some repeatability into User Interface Design. To lift practical User Interface Design from the realms of "Black Magic" into a well understood discipline. To make the chance of a good UI Design so much higher.
• User Interface Engineering - Founded in 1988, User Interface Engineering is a leading research-driven company specializing in web-site and product usability. By providing usability information based on detailed observations rather than opinions, we empower development teams to create web sites, software applications, and other products that increase customer satisfaction and loyalty. See also: UIEtips
• Boxes and Arrows - Boxes and Arrows is the definitive source for the complex task of bringing architecture and design to the digital landscape. There are various titles and professions associated with this undertaking - information architecture, information design, interaction design, interface design - but when we looked at the work that we were actually doing, we found a "community of practice" with similarities in outlook and approach that far outweighed our differences.
• Simian Design - blog with entries about Info Design, Interaction Design and UI Design
• DeLijst - Created and maintained by students of the IDM in the Hague. 'DeLijst is a nifty collection of UI and IA resources. Though in Dutch, it's not too hard to make one's way around.' Very handy is the site's sitemap.
• eleganthack.com - Information architecture, usability and interaction design issues, plus the odd thought by Christina Wodtke (author of Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web) - eleganthack.com is a one-person website devoted to exploring and furthering the emerging art of user experience design and information architecture on the web. See also the blog: http://www.eleganthack.com/blog/
• Web Design Practices - examining current design practices on the web - Web Design Practices is a site devoted to helping designers understand what design practices are currently in use on the Web—and aims to gather research about the usability of commonly-employed design practices.
• OK/Cancel - Weblog featuring a strip (cartoon) about recognizable Interaction Design/HCI/Usability situations, often commenting the corporate design practice. Each strip is elaborated in an accompanying article.