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Usability, UX & Human Factors

Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests (Jeffrey Rubin)

Usability Assessment: How to Measure the Usability of Products, Services, and Systems (Philip Kortum)

Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics (Tom Tullis & Bill Albert)

The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology (Kim Vicente)

Cost-Justifying Usability (Randolph G. Bias & Deborah J. Mayhew)

Quantifying the User Experience: Practical Statistics for User Research (Jeff Sauro & James R. Lewis)

Usability Engineering (Jakob Nielsen)

Designing for People: An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering (John D. Lee, Christopher D. Wickens, Yili Liu, & Linda NG Boyle)

The Measure of Man & Woman: Human Factors In Design (Henry Dreyfuss Associates)

Designing for Older Adults: Principles and Creative Human Factors Approaches (Arthur D. Fisk, Wendy A. Rogers, Neil Charness, Sara J. Czaja, & Joseph Sharit)

The Design of Everyday Things (Don Norman)

Misadventures in Health Care: Inside Stories (Marilyn Sue Bogner)

APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY

Thinking Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Atul Gawande)

Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error (Steven Casey)

The Rational Animal: How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think (Douglas T. Kenrick & Vladas Griskevicius)

Behave: The Biology of Humans At Our Best and Worst (Robert M. Sapolsky)

Evolutionary Psychology (Steven J.C. Gaulin & Donald H. McBurney)

The Origin of Everyday Moods: Managing Energy, Tension, and Stress (Robert E. Thayer, Ph.D.)

Mapping the Mind (Rita Carter)

Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind (Gary Marcus)

UX DESIGN

Universal Principles of Design (William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, & Jill Butler)

Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond (Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, & Jorge Arango)

Visual Thinking for Design (Colin Ware)

A Project Guide to UX Design for User Experience Designers in the Field or in the Making (Russ Unger & Carolyn Chandler)