Website Architecture & Usability Books

Last updated: January 3, 2012

1. Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML by Eric T Freeman, Elisabeth Freeman and Elisabeth Robson Published: December 15, 2005 Score: 12.16
2. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition by Steve Krug Published: August 28, 2005 Score: 10.72
3. Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules by Jeff Johnson PhD Published: June 3, 2010 Score: 2.46
4. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity (2nd Edition) by Alan Cooper Published: February 24, 2004 Score: 2.11
5. Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell Published: December 22, 2010 Score: 1.72
6. Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics by Nathan Yau Published: July 20, 2011 Score: 1.36
7. Web Analytics: An Hour a Day by Avinash Kaushik Published: June 5, 2007 Score: 1.26
8. Content Strategy for the Web by Kristina Halvorson Published: August 22, 2009 Score: 1.13
9. Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works (Interactive Technologies) by Janice Redish Published: June 29, 2007 Score: 1.07
10. Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug Published: January 1, 2000 Score: 0.99
11. Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps by Josh Clark Published: June 25, 2010 Score: 0.78
12. Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties, Fourth Edition: Advanced SQL Programming (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) by Joe Celko Published: November 1, 2010 Score: 0.71
13. Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz Published: February 13, 2009 Score: 0.67
14. Creating a Website: The Missing Manual (English and English Edition) by Matthew MacDonald Published: May 10, 2011 Score: 0.57
15. Programming PHP by Rasmus Lerdorf and Kevin Tatroe Published: March 1, 2002 Score: 0.5
16. Core JavaServer Faces (3rd Edition) by David Geary and Cay S. Horstmann Published: June 6, 2010 Score: 0.49
17. CSS: The Definitive Guide by Eric A. Meyer Published: November 14, 2006 Score: 0.48
18. Gamification by Design: Implementing Game Mechanics in Web and Mobile Apps by Gabe Zichermann and Christopher Cunningham Published: August 19, 2011 Score: 0.47
19. Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks by Luke Wroblewski Published: May 2, 2008 Score: 0.45
20. About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann and David Cronin Published: May 7, 2007 Score: 0.43
21. Getting Started with Processing by Casey Reas and Ben Fry Published: July 2, 2010 Score: 0.42
22. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld Published: December 4, 2006 Score: 0.41
23. Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Randy Drisgill, John Ross, Jacob J. Sanford and Paul Stubbs Published: November 30, 2010 Score: 0.37
24. Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design by Robert Hoekman Published: October 22, 2006 Score: 0.35
25. USB Complete: Everything You Need to Develop Custom USB Peripherals by Jan Axelson Published: September 28, 2001 Score: 0.34