18 Aug 2006 2117H

Summer reading for IAs

While out at the Borders just now, saw that Stephen Few has a new book out on Information Dashboard Design. I’d be interested in this book on Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell as well, also from O’Reilly. I just noticed that Zeldman of A List Apart fame has published a second edition of his Designing with Web Standards, which looks to be much improved over his first edition, which I thought was long-winded and of spotty quality. And so too has Steve Krug of Don’t Make Me Think fame (apparently been out for a year now), although I think his book was pretty much an eye-opener the first time through for many of us. Finally, there’s a book from a CMU grad and Adaptive Path designer, Dan Saffer, Designing for Interaction, just out recently. And I think I will finally break down and buy a copy of Scott Berkun’s excellent Art of Project Management, which I admit to having had owned a pirate copy of in, of all things, Windows Help format.

Did I mention that you can now use O’Reilly Safari to read all of these books? Damn smart thing at that; paper is becoming obsolete for matters like this. Not fast enough for search, too heavy to lug around from place to place (believe me, I know what it’s like, across three continents), and just as it’s published the knowledge contained within is already obsolete. Appalling. Is it any wonder that Borders has replaced the role our public library once fulfilled?

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