Reading List

Code

• Absolute Beginner’s Guide to C
  by Greg Perry
• ActionScript : The Definitive Guide
  by Colin Moock
• ActionScripting in Flash
  by Phillip Kerman
• Cascading Style Sheets, Second Edition: Designing for the Web
  by Hakon Wium Lie
• Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide
  by Eric Meyer
• Foundation ActionScript
  by Sham Bhangal
• HTML & XHTML : The Definitive Guide
  by Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy
• The C Programming Language
  Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie

Information Architecture

• Information Architects
  by Richard Saul Wurman
• Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
  by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville
• Practical Information Architecture: A Hands-On Approach to Structuring Successful Websites
  by Eric L. Reiss
• Web Navigation: Designing the User Experience
  by Jennifer Fleming

Information Design

• Information Anxiety
  Richard Saul Wurman
• Information Design
  by Robert E. Jacobson
• Information Graphics: Innovative Solutions in Contemporary Design
  by Peter Wildbur
• Envisioning Information
  Edward Tufte
• Mapping Websites: Digital Media Design
  by Paul Kahn, Krzysztof Lenk
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
  Edward Tufte
• Visual Explanations
  by Edward R. Tufte

Project Management

• Collaborative Web Development: Strategies and Best Practices for Web Teams
  by Jessica R. Burdman
• Web Redesign : Workflow That Works
  by Kelly Goto, Emily Cotler

Usability

• Contextual Design : A Customer-Centered Approach to Systems Designs
  by Hugh Beyer, Karen Holtzblatt
• Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity
  by Jakob Nielsen
• Don’t Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
  by Steve Krug
• Handbook of Usability Testing
  by Jeffrey Rubin
• Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
  by Jacob Neilson, Marie Latir
• The Design of Everyday Things
  by Donald A. Norman
• The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
  by Jeff Raskin
• Usability Engineering
  by Jakob Nielsen

Typography

• Color & Type for the Screen (Digital Media Design Series)
  by Veruschka Gotz
• The Elements of Typographic Style
  by Robert Bringhurst
• The New Typography : A Handbook for Modern Designers
  by Jan Tschichold, Ruari McLean

Visual Design

• Six Memos for the Next Millennium
  Italo Calvino
• A Primer of Visual Literacy
  by Donis A. Dondis, Peter A. Dondis
• Big Book of Typographics 1 and 2
  by Roger Walton, B. Duncan
• Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design
  by Steven Heller, Karen Pomeroy
• Inner Vision : An Exploration of Art and the Brain
  by Semir Zeki
• The Elements of Color
  by Johannes Itten, Faber Birren; Hardcover
• The Non-Designer’s Design Book
  by Robin Williams
• Soak Wash Rinse Spin
  Steve Tolleson
• Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See
  by Donald Hoffman
• Visual ‘Literacy’: Image, Mind, and Reality
  Pail Messaris
• Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites
  by Patrick J. Lynch, Sarah Horton