in this review Usability, UX, Interface books  cover everything from user research, tests and interface design to information architecture, UX strategy and accessibility. They are the most popular and recommended books on usability and user experience. These books not only include theory of user interface design but a number of case studies and real life examples. Usability and interaction design are becoming more and more important nowadays. A website which is easy to use sell better in any ways, guides the users, helps to successfully sign up for a service or to complete a checkout process.

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

In Don’t Make Me Think, author Steve Krug covers up the usability design with good humor and multiple examples. All of the tips, techniques, and examples presented are related to user experience and their ability to surf websites without a lot of mental efforts. Much of the content is devoted to proper use of conventions and content layout using “before and after” examples. Topics such as the wise use of rollovers and usability testing are covered using a consistently practical approach. This book also features user patterns, designing for scanning, wise use of copy, navigation design, usability testing.

Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design

Designing the Obvious by Robert Hoekman, Jr. is a lot like Don’t make me Think! by Steve Krug. The difference here is, Robert is a designer by trade, whereas Steve is a usability expert. Robert takes the core principles of Steve’s work and manifests them through his work, describing the trials and tribulations of adding “just one more feature” to a burgeoning web application. Robert invites application designers take a much-needed step back. People who use web applications have an intended purpose: they generally want to get one or two very specific things done. How can your application support that? What features have you added that don’t support that? This book is about what not to do, rather than what to do.

Designing Interfaces

If you learn many best practices and reusable ideas of interface design, and understand why the best user interfaces work so well, you too can design engaging and usable interfaces with less guesswork and more confidence. “Designing Interfaces” captures those best practices as design patterns – solutions to common design problems, tailored to the situation at hand. Each pattern contains practical advice that you can put to use immediately, plus a variety of examples illustrated in full color. Each chapter’s introduction describes key design concepts that are often misunderstood, such as affordances, visual hierarchy, navigational distance, and the use of color.

A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making

There’s a lot more to successful UX design than knowing the latest Web technologies or design trends. Authors of this book show you how to integrate UX principles into your project from start to finish. This book will show you how to understand the various roles in UX design, identify stakeholders, and enlist their support, obtain consensus from your team on project objectives, define the scope of your project and avoid mission creep, conduct user research and document your findings, understand and communicate user behavior with personas, design and prototype your application or site, plan for development, product rollout, and ongoing quality assurance.

Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions

This book includes more than 75 design patterns with examples from working websites for building web interfaces that provide rich interaction. Designing Web Interfaces helps you make it direct-edit content in context with design patterns for in page editing, drag & drop, and direct selection, keep it lightweight-reduce the effort required to interact with a site by using in context tools to leave a “light footprint”, tay on the page-keep visitors on a page with overlays, inlays, dynamic content, and in-page flow patterns, provide an invitation-help visitors discover site features with invitations that cue them to the next level of interaction, use transitions-learn when, why, and how to use animations, cinematic effects, and other transitions.

Sexy Web Design: Creating Interfaces That Work

Sexy Web Design is an easy-to-follow guide that reveals the secrets of how to build your own breathtaking web interfaces from scratch. You’ll be guided through the entire process of creating a gorgeous, usable web site by applying the timeless principles of user-centered design.This book focuses on simple and practical techniques that anyone can use – you don’t need to have gone to art school or have artistic flair to create stunning designs using the methods outlined in this book.The book’s full-color layout and large format (8″ x 10″) make Sexy Web Design a pleasure to read.

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites

With a swift and convincing stroke, the authors of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web tear down many entrenched ideas about Web design. Flashy animations are cool, they agree, as long as they don’t aggravate the viewer. Nifty clickable icons are nice, but are their meanings universal? Is the search engine providing results that are useful and relevant? Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites book acts as a mirror and with careful questioning causes the reader to think through all the elements and decisions required for well-crafted Web design.

Eyetracking Web Usability

Eyetracking Web Usability authors used rigorous usability methodology and eyetracking technology to analyze 1.5 million instances where users look at Web sites to understand how the human eyes interact with design. Their findings will help designers, software developers, writers, editors, product managers, and advertisers understand what people see or don’t see, when they look, and why. Using compelling eye gaze plots and heat maps, book guides the reader through hundreds of examples of eye movements, demonstrating why some designs work and others don’t. There are also valuable advice for page layout, navigation menus, site elements, image selection, and advertising.

When Search Meets Web Usability

This book delivers a proactive approach to building an effective Web site that is search engine friendly and will result in better search rankings. It outlines the steps needed to bridge the gap between a Google search and a Web site, and also improve the users’ experience once they get to the site. By understanding the wide variety of information-seeking strategies and the individual behaviors associated with them, this book helps information architects, Web designers/developers, SEOs/SEMs, and usability professionals build better interfaces and functionality into Web sites. Creating a satisfying user experience is the key to maximizing search effectiveness and getting conversions.

Web Anatomy: Interaction Design Frameworks that Work

In Web Anatomy: Interaction Design Frameworks That Work, user experience experts introduce “interaction design frameworks”, the third and final piece of what they call “The Reuse Trinity”, and resolve these issues once and for all. Frameworks are sets of design patterns and other elements that comprise entire systems, and in this book they show you how to identify, document, share, use, and reap the benefits of frameworks. They also dive deep into several major frameworks to reveal how the psychology behind these standards leads not only to effective designs, but can also serve as the basis for cutting-edge innovations and superior user experiences.

Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance
Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance

Accessibility is about making websites accessible to those with aural, visual, or physical disabilities, or rather, constructing websites that dont exclude these people from accessing the content or services provided. This book gives you all you need to know about web accessibility, whether you are a web designer or developer who wants your sites to be accessible, or a business manager who wants to learn what impact the web accessibility laws have on your websites. You will be given understanding of assistive technologies, how to create accessible content using XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash, and PDFs and test against WCAG (including 2.0) and Section 508.