Recommended Literature

English

McCormick, Ernest. Human factor in engineering and design. McGraw-Hill 1976

Theoretical textbook about input/output devices, ergonomics, cognition, psychology.

 

Newman, W M & Lamming, M G: Interactive System Design. Addison-Wesley 1995.

Textbook with the main focus on user psychology and cognition, including user study, modeling user activity, and systems analysis.

 

Nielsen, Jacob. Designing Web Usability. Indianapolis: New Riders 2000.

Good and easy-to-understand handbook for web designers. The coverage of usability-testing is insufficient, otherwise the book is very useful and comprehensive.

 

Nielsen, Jakob: Usability Engineering. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 1993.

Good textbook with the main focus on computer interfaces. Practically oriented and easy to read, though I would like to have more examples and illustrations.

 

Norman, Donald A.: The Design of Everyday Things. Doubleday 1988.

Entertaining book packed with examples of good and bad designs. This book can convince anybody about the importance of user-friendly designs.

 

Preece, Jenny (ed): Human-Computer interaction. Addison-Wesley 1994.

University-level textbook. Theoretical but easy to understand, with many illustrations and exercises.

 

Dix, Alan, et. al.: Human-Computer interaction. Pearson Education 2003.

Textbook with a mostly technical focus.

 

Raskin, Jef: The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems. Addison-Wesley 2000.

Theoretical book on human/computer interface and cognitive psychology with detailed discussion of commands, displays, cursors, icons, menus, etc.

 

Shneiderman, Ben; and Plaisant, Catherine: Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction. Fourth ed. Addison Wesley 2004.

Recommended university-level textbook on the design of human/computer interface. Comprehensive.

 

Pearrow, Mark: Web site usability handbook. Charles River Media 2000.

Good handbook for web designers.

 

Badre, Alberg N: Shaping Web Usability: Interaction design in context. Addison Wesley 2002.

Web design with focus on the social and cultural context.

 

Danish

Dansk EDI råd: Web-form - en brugerhåndbog. København: Dansk EDI råd 1999.

Lille overskuelig håndbog om design af websider med formularer til indtastning af data.

 

Markussen, Tom Hede: Betjeningsdesign. Teknisk forlag 1998

Fremragende letlæst bog om brugervenlighed. Handler om apparater og maskiner generelt, ikke om computere.

 

Molich, Rolf (red): Brugervenlige edb-systemer. Teknisk Forlag 1994.

God, letlæst introduktion til brugervenligt design og afprøvning af brugervenlighed.

 

Thomas Visby Snitker: Brug brugerne. Teknisk Forlag 2001.

Hvordan man skaber brugervenlige websites ved at inddrage brugerne.
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