What's on Your Bookshelf?

A co-worker recently heard that I have a whole library in my house. That is probably a slight exaggeration, but might not be. Anyhow, she wanted to know if I had any recommendations for her bookshelf. So, I thought I'd post some of my bookshelf for everyone to see. This is only a partial list that I created in response to her specific needs. I also suspect that there are other books in these same areas that should be on my list and aren't. So, take a look at my list and feel free to add your own comments about these books or about other books that might be good to have.

On writing

• Designing and Writing Online Documentation: Hypermedia for Self-Supporting Products, William Horton
• Standards for Online Communitation, JoAnn T. Hackos and Dawn M. Stevens
• Developing Effective User Documentation: A Human-Factors Approach, Henry Simpson and Steven M. Casey

On user-interface design and usability

• Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-computer Interaction, Ben Shneiderman
• Handbook of Usability Testing, Jeffrey Rubin
• Usability Engineering, Jakob Nielsen
• The Humane Interface, Jef Raskin

On the industry

• Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor, Tim Berners-Lee
• Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine
• Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made, Andy Hertfeld
• In the Beginning Was the Command Line, Neal Stephenson

Posted at 08:10AM Apr 12, 2008 by jcinfoblog in General  |  Comments[0]