Resources & Links
- A loosely-organized collection of links and texts that
I've found useful:
- Current Picks
- User-Centered Design
- User Experience
Studies
- Information Architecture
- Interface Development
- Usability Testing
- Website Redesign Case Studies
- Interaction Design Resources
- Dance & Technology
- Digitally Expanded
Cinema
- Interactive
Performance Systems
- Motion Capture
Current
Picks
Creating
Motion Graphics with After Effects, Vol. 1: The Essentials
(3rd Edition)
by Trish Meyer. CMP Books. ISBN 1578202493
Creating
Motion Graphics with After Effects: Volume 2: Advanced
Techniques
by Trish Meyer. CMP Books. ISBN 1578202078
After
Effects in Production
by Trish Meyer. CMP Books. ISBN 1578200776
The
Animator's Motion Capture Guide: Organizing, Managing,
and Editing
by Matthew Liverman. Charles River Media. ISBN 1584502916
Producing
Great Sound for Digital Video
by Jay Rose. CMP Books. ISBN 1578202086
Lighting
for Digital Video & Television
by John Jackman. CMP Books. ISBN 1578201152
The
Five C's of Cinematography: Motion Picture Filming Techniques
by Joseph V. Mascelli. Silman-James Press. ISBN 187950541X
Digital
Lighting & Rendering
by Jeremy Birn. Pearson Education. ISBN 1562059548
Digital
Texturing & Painting
by Owen Demers. Pearson Education. ISBN 0735709181
Digital
Cinematography & Directing
by Dan Ablan. New Riders Press. ISBN 0735712581
Muybridge's
Complete Human and Animal Locomotion: New Volume 1 (Reprint
of original volumes 1-4)
by Eadweard Muybridge. Dover Publications. ISBN 0486237923
Muybridge's
Complete Human and Animal Locomotion: New Volume 2 (Reprint
of original volumes 5-8)
by Eadweard Muybridge. Dover Publications. ISBN 0486237923
Muybridge's
Complete Human and Animal Locomotion: New Volume 3 (Reprint
of original volumes 9-11)
by Eadweard Muybridge. Dover Publications. ISBN 048623794X
The
Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles,
and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion,
and Internet Animators
by Richard Williams. Faber & Faber. ISBN 0571202284
The
Illusion of Life: Disney Animation
by Ollie Johnston & Frank Thomas. Hyperion Press. ISBN
0786860707
User-Centered
Design: Books
About
Face: The Essentials Of Interface Design
by Alan Cooper. IDG Books Worldwide, 1995. ISBN 1568843224
Bringing
Design to Software
by Terry Winograd (ed.) Addison Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0201854910
Computers
as Theatre
by Brenda Laurel. Addison Wesley, 1993. ISBN 0201550601
Design
of Children's Technology
by Allison Druin (ed.) Morgan Kaufmann, 1998. ISBN 155860507X
Design
of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman. Doubleday, 1990. ISBN 0385267746
Designing
the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer
Interaction
by Ben Shneiderman. Addison Wesley, 1997. ISBN 0201694972
Designing
Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
by Jakob Nielsen. New Riders Publishing, 2000. ISBN 156205810X
Humane
Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
by Jef Raskin. Addison Wesley, 2000. ISBN 0201379376
Information
Appliances and Beyond
by Eric Bergman (ed.) Morgan Kaufmann, 2000. ISBN 1558606009
Invisible
Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer
Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution
by Donald A. Norman. MIT Press, 1998. ISBN 0262140659
Software
for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods
of Usage Centered Design
by Larry Constantine & Lucy Lockwood. Addison Wesley,
1999. ISBN 0201924781
User-Centered
Design: An Integrated Approach
by Karel Vredenburg, Scott Isensee, & Carol Righi. Prentice-Hall
PTR, 2002.
ISBN 0130912956
Web
Navigation: Designing the User Experience
by Jennifer Fleming. O'Reilly & Associates, 1998. ISBN
1565923510
User-Centered
Design: Web Links
Bad Human Factors Design
http://www.baddesigns.com
Human-Centered Product Development (excerpt) Don Norman
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/NORVH/chapter9.html
Interface Hall of Shame
http://www.iarchitect.com/mshame.htm
Standish Group The CHAOS Report
http://www.standishgroup.com/sample_research/chaos_1994_1.php
Task-Centered User Interface Design: A Practical Introduction
http://hcibib.org/tcuid
The Usage-Centered Design Resource
http://www.foruse.com
User
Experience Studies: Books
Contextual
Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems
by Hugh Beyer & Karen Holtzblatt. Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.
ISBN 1558604111
Context
and Consciousness
by Bonnie A. Nardi (ed.) MIT Press, 1995. ISBN 0262140586
Constructing
Effective Questionnaires
by Robert A. Peterson. Sage Publications, 2000. ISBN 0761916407
- Focus
Group Kit
by David L. Morgan & Richard A. Krueger. Sage Publications,
1997. ISBN 0761907602
- #1 Focus
Group Guidebook
by David L. Morgan. Sage Publications, 1997. ISBN 0761908188
- #2 Planning
Focus Groups
by David L. Morgan. Sage Publications, 1997. ISBN 076190817X
- #3 Developing
Questions for Focus Groups
by Richard A. Krueger. Sage Publications, 1997. ISBN 0761908196
- #4 Moderating
Focus Groups
by Richard A. Krueger. Sage Publications, 1997. ISBN 0761908218
- #5 Involving
Community Members in Focus Groups
by Richard A. Krueger & Jean A. King. Sage Publications,
1997. ISBN 076190820X
- #6 Analyzing & Reporting
Focus Group Results
by Richard A. Krueger. Sage Publications, 1997. ISBN 0761908161
Focus
Groups, Third Edition: A Practical Guide for Applied
Research
by Richard A. Krueger & Mary Anne Casey. Sage Publications,
2000. ISBN 0761920714
Moderating
Focus Groups : A Practical Guide for Group Facilitation
by Thomas L. Greenbaum. Sage Publications, 2000. ISBN 0761920447
User
and Task Analysis for Interface Design
by JoAnn Hackos & Janice Redish. John Wiley & Sons,
Inc., 1998. ISBN 0471178314
User
Experience Studies: Web Links
Exploring Users Experiences of the Web
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_9/brown/index.html
Groups Plus Focus Group Resources
http://www.groupsplus.com/pages/articles.htm
InContext Enterprises Contextual Design
http://www.incent.com
Observational Research
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/06/circuits/articles/10anth.html
Questionnaires in Usability Engineering
http://www.ucc.ie/hfrg/resources/qfaq1.html
What Makes Web Sites Credible? A Report on a Large Quantitative
Study
http://www.webcredibility.org/studies/p61-fogg.pdf
Information
Architecture: Books
Content
Management Bible
by Bob Boiko. Hungry Minds, 2001. ISBN 076454862X
Designing
Large-Scale Web Sites: A Visual Design Methodology
by Darrel Sano. John Wiley & Sons, 1996. ISBN 047114276X
Envisioning
Information
by Edward R. Tufte. Graphics Press, 1990. ISBN 0961392118
Information
Architects
by Richard Saul Wurman. Graphis Press, 1997. ISBN 1888001380
Information
Design
by Robert E. Jacobson (ed.) MIT Press, 1999. ISBN 026210069X
Information
Architecture for the World Wide Web
by Louis Rosenfeld & Peter Morville. O'Reilly & Associates,
1998. ISBN 1565922824
Visual
Display of Quantitative Information
by Edward R. Tufte. Graphics Press, 1983. ISBN 096139210X
Information
Architecture: Web Links
Argus Center for Information Architecture
http://argus-acia.com
Boxes and Arrows
http://www.boxesandarrows.com
Cuisinarts, E-Commerce, and Controlled Vocabularies
http://www.webreview.com/1999/07_09/strategists/07_09_99_3.shtml
Designing Navigation Systems (excerpt) Lou Rosenfeld & Peter
Morville
http://www.webreview.com/1998/02_20/webauthors/02_20_98_10.shtml
Information Architecture Tutorial
http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/design/site_building/tutorials/tutorial1.html
Information, Architecture, and Usability
http://www.webreview.com/1999/03_12/strategists/03_12_99_3.shtml
Navigating the Information Architecture Maze
http://www.webreview.com/1997/11_14/strategists/11_14_97_6.shtml
10 Questions About Information Architecture
http://www.builder.com/Authoring/AllAboutIA/index.html
Website Structural Navigation
http://www.otal.umd.edu/SHORE2000/webnav
Interface
Development: Books
Designing
Visual Interfaces
by Kevin Mullet & Darrell Sano. Prentice Hall, 1995.
ISBN 0133033899
Designing
Interactive Web Sites
by James L. Mohler & Jon M. Duff. Delmar, 2000. ISBN
0766814858
Designing
Web Graphics.3
by Lynda Weinman. New Riders Publishing, 1999. ISBN 1562059491
Icon
Book: Visual Symbols for Computer Systems and Documentation
by William Horton. John Wiley & Sons, 1994. ISBN 0471599018
Java
Look and Feel Design Guidelines
by Sun Microsystems. Addison Wesley, 2001. ISBN 0201725886
Microsoft
Windows User Experience
by Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Press, 1999. ISBN 0735605661
Object
Modeling and User Interface Design: Designing Interactive
Systems
by Mark Van Harmelen (ed.) Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 2001. ISBN
0201657899
Visual
Interface Design for Windows
by Virginia Howlett. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996. ISBN
0471134198
Web
Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web
Sites
by Patrick J. Lynch & Sarah Horton. Yale University Press,
1999. ISBN 0300076754
Interface
Development: Web Links
Accessibility Design Practices Microsoft
http://msdn.microsoft.com/nhp/default.asp?contentid=28000544
Common Ground: A Pattern Language for Human-Computer
Interface Design
http://www.mit.edu/~jtidwell/interaction_patterns.html
FishCal University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction
Lab
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/fishcal
GUI Makeovers
http://www.guiguy.com/Makeovers/default.htm
Interface Design Guidelines
http://www.weinschenk.com/tools/guideline_demo/index.htm
Inxight Software Star Tree
http://www.inxight.com
Microsoft Windows User Experience
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwue/html/welcome.asp
Pliable Display Technology - IDELIX Software
http://www.idelix.com
Symbols.com Online Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols
http://www.symbols.com
Web Accessibility Initiative
http://www.w3.org/WAI
Web Style Guide
http://www.webstyleguide.com
Usability
Testing: Books
A
Practical Guide to Usability Testing
by Joseph S. Dumas & Janice C. Redish. Ablex Publishing,
1993.
ISBN 0893919918
Cost-Justifying
Usability
by Randolph G. Bias & Deborah J. Mayhew (eds.) Academic
Press, 1994.
ISBN 0120958104
Design
by People for People: Essays on Usability
by Russell Branaghan (ed.) Usability Professionals' Association,
2001. ISBN 0970227205
Handbook
of Usability Testing
by Jeffrey Rubin. John Wiley & Sons, 1994. ISBN 0471594032
Homepage
Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
by Jakob Nielsen & Marie Tahir. New Riders Publishing,
2002. ISBN 073571102X
Usability
Engineering
by Jakob Nielsen. Academic Press, 1993. ISBN 0125184069
Usability
Engineering Lifecycle: A Practitioner's Handbook for
User Interface Design
by Deborah J. Mayhew. Morgan Kaufmann, 1999. ISBN 1558605614
Usability
Inspection Methods
by Jakob Nielsen & Robert L. Mack (ed.) John Wiley & Sons,
1994. ISBN 0471018775
Usability
Testing: Web Links
InfoDesign Toolkit Do-It-Yourself Usability Techniques
http://www.infodesign.com.au/IDToolkit/default.html
Usable Information Technology Jakob Nielsen
http://www.useit.com
Usable Web Guide to Web Usability Resources
http://usableweb.com
Usability Professionals Association
http://www.upassoc.org
Usability SIG Society for Technical Communication
http://www.stcsig.org/usability
Usability Toolkit
http://www.stcsig.org/usability/resources/toolkit/toolkit.html
Website
Redesign Case Studies
IBM Website Redesign Case Study
http://www.research.att.com/conf/hfweb/proceedings/lisle/index.html
Kodak Website Redesign Case Study
http://www.research.att.com/conf/hfweb/proceedings/yu/index.html
Mitre Website Redesign Case Study
http://www.mitre.org/pubs/intranet
Sun Website Redesign Case Study
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/HCI/nielsen/sunweb.html
Interaction
Design Resources
ACM Interactions
http://www.acm.org/interactions
ACM SIGCHI
http://sigchi.org
HCI Bibliography
http://www.hcibib.org
HCI Index
http://degraaff.org/hci
IBM Ease of Use Site
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/easy
Dance & Technology
Leaping into Dance Technology
by Jeffrey Bary
http://www.nyu.edu/its/pubs/connect/archives/fall02/bary_dance.pdf
Life Forms
Human figure animation software
http://www.credo-interactive.com/products/index.html
Digitally
Expanded Cinema
The Digital Revolution and the Future Cinema
by Samira Makhmalbaf
http://www.iranchamber.com/cinema/articles/digital_revolution_future_cinema.php
Future Cinema - The Cinematic Imaginary After Film
Recent Exhibition at ZKM, Germany
http://www.zkm.de/futurecinema/index_e.html
MIT Interactive Cinema Group
http://ic.media.mit.edu/
New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative
edited by Martin Reiser and Andrea Zapp
British Film Institute, 2002.
Interactive
Performance Systems
Isadora
http://www.troikatronix.com/isadora.html
KeyWorx
http://www.keyworx.org
Max/MSP & Jitter
http://www.cycling74.com/index.html
David Rokeby & softVNS
http://homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/home.html
Motion
Capture
Motion Analysis
http://www.motionanalysis.com
Vicon
http://www.vicon.com
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