Books

 

Don't Make Me Think
A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (2nd Edition) is a concise tome about user testing. There are more comprehensive and exhaustive books but this is a great starter book.

The Elements of User Experience- User-Centered Design for the Web
A concise book that presents a user experience framework for building effective Web applications. When one looks at today's applications are a mashup of both procedural codes and dynamic languages I think book has new relevance.

Designing Interfaces
Patterns for Effective Interaction Design is the most rigorous of all of these books and it's focus is on understanding what different interface components are best utilized for. It has absolutely nothing to do with WPF or other Microsoft technologies but everything to do with how empowering WPF can be when used smartly.

Web ReDesign 2.0- Workflow that Works
A book about tasks that one would presume we've all mastered at this point but sadly haven't. In short this book is really about project management and tactics that one can employ is a Web-based or really any project that will focus on User Experience.