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No book on Information Architecture and User Interface? Human psychology of decision making? This is not the hard way. Hard way is to study human behavior and
by kingsidharth 15y ago
No book on Information Architecture and User Interface? Human psychology of decision making? This is not the hard way.
Hard way is to study human behavior and then study how good things were designed around them. Study the thought process behind and try and solve some design problems yourself.
This is not the hard way.
- bad_user 15y agoCan you recommend resources for those 2 topics?
- kingsidharth 15y agoFor starters, see the footer: http://www.andyrutledge.com/calculating-hours.php http://www.andyrutledge.com/calculating-hours.php (His home page is changed so doesn't link to them all) http://www.alistapart.com/ http://www.alistapart.com/ Does talk about psychology and logic behind design. http://52weeksofux.com/ http://52weeksofux.com/ UX And Don't make me think. An awesome book on usability: http://amzn.to/uZ4uH5 http://amzn.to/uZ4uH5 I haven't found any great resource on Information Architecture yet. <selfpromiton> I wrote a very brief intro to them all: http://www.64notes.com/design/design-and-subsets-essay/ http://www.64notes.com/design/design-and-subsets-essay/ </selfpromiton>
- bad_user 15y agoThanks, I also read "Don't Make Me Think", but I haven't included it (in this article) because I don't consider it a good book. It felt like some examples were just wrong and I also couldn't take away much value from it, although I may have been biased by my opinions on the matter. Its other flaw is that it bored me after the first third or so. Also, "The Design of Everyday Things" (included) does talk about the psychology behind user actions. It's pretty good.
- kingsidharth 15y ago> It bored me. > The hard way. Words don't teach; life experience does. Books are good for intro.