Posted on September 2, 2009 - by trisnadi
Fancy some reading?
Below are some of the new additions to our personal library. If you’re interested in borrowing, let us know 
From time to time I get people asking me to recommend some books on Design, Website Development and User Experience, so hopefully this list can be useful.
Printwork
“Printwork” showcases the intimate relationship between prints and publications or promotions design. Graphic designers are continually challenged to find new ways to lend impact and interest to their work. The special printing methods collected in “Print Work” are employed to great effect in book and product design in innovative and exciting ways. Colors, gloss, and texture all add visual and tactile appeal to products, packaging and print designs. “Look and feel” has never been more important to the success of a product or campaign. “Print Work” encourages designers to experiment with unusual printing methods and techniques and challenges them to think beyond the computer screen and into the dimension of the realm of the senses. Presenting actual techniques featured in the book inviting readers to touch each page, allowing them access to the haptic quality of the finished products.
Sketching User Experiences
by Bill Buxton
Sketching User Experiences approaches design and design thinking as something distinct that needs to be better understood-by both designers and the people with whom they need to work- in order to achieve success with new products and systems. So while the focus is on design, the approach is holistic. Hence, the book speaks to designers, usability specialists, the HCI community, product managers, and business executives. There is an emphasis on balancing the back-end concern with usability and engineering excellence (getting the design right) with an up-front investment in sketching and ideation (getting the right design).
Universal Principles of Design
by William Lidewell et. al.
Richly illustrated, this book is the first comprehensive, cross-disciplinary encyclopedia of design. It pairs clear explanations of every design concept with visual examples of the concepts applied in practice. From the “80/20 rule to chunking, from baby-face bias to Ockham’s razor, and from self-similarity to storytelling, every major design concept is defined and illustrated for readers to expand their knowledge.
Designing The Obvious
by Robert Hoekman Jr
Designing the Obvious explores the character traits of great Web applications and uses them as guiding principles of application design so the end result of every project instills customer satisfaction and loyalty. These principles include building only whats necessary, getting users up to speed quickly, preventing and handling errors, and designing for the activity.
Slide:ology
by Nancy duarte
From the firm that created the presentation for Al Gore’s Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, this book is full of practical approaches to visual story development that can be applied by anyone. The book combines conceptual thinking and inspirational design, with insightful case studies from the world’s leading brands.
Don’t Make Me Think
by Steve Krug
Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it’s hard to imagine anyone working in Web design who hasn’t read Steve Krug’s “instant classic” on Web usability, but people are still discovering it every day. In this second edition, Steve adds three new chapters in the same style as the original: wry and entertaining, yet loaded with insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike. Don’t be surprised if it completely changes the way you think about Web design.
Designing Web Interfaces
by Bill Scott & Thomson Neil
In this book, UI experts Bill Scott and Theresa Neil present more than 75 design patterns for building web interfaces that provide rich interaction. Distilled from the authors’ years of experience at Sabre, Yahoo!, and Netflix, these best practices are grouped into six key principles to help you take advantage of the web technologies available today.
Graphic Simplicity
Simple, high-quality design work: not just crisply elegant and eye-catching, but uncluttered and distinctive, colorful and refined, making subtly effective use of fonts and logos. In short, sophisticated designs seduce all who see them. This book presents a collection of just such work for those who appreciate genuine quality in graphic design, featuring a selection of the finest in simple and superlative design from the U.K., Italy, France, Spain, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, the USA and more, presented in a stylish, understated volume.
UX Design
by Russ Unger & Carolyn Chandler
User experience design is the discipline of creating a useful and usable Web site or application—one that’s easily navigated and meets the needs of both the site owner and its users. But there’s a lot more to successful UX design than knowing the latest Web technologies or design trends: It takes diplomacy, project management skills, and business savvy. That’s where this book comes in.