In one of the main Exhibition Halls, the AIGA has a temporary bookstore set up with hundreds of books available about design, type, color, surface, theory… enough to make any designer drool and wish they had the entire collection available in their own library. While I love all kinds of design books, (Eames books are a favorite) I was disappointed that I wasn’t finding any related to design for the Web or multimedia. Then I came across this table. People all around me had no idea why I had whipped out my camera to take a picture of books sitting on a table, but I found these four to be in good company.
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Heh. I have all of these books on my shelf as well. Does it seem a tad ironic that web developers still rely on books? Maybe it is from my liberal arts background, but although I get a great deal of information from web sites, nothing replaces a good book on a particular topic. So Bowman, when will your book be out :-) ?
I second that!
Question: What are ‘Eames books’?
I’ve got ‘em all too! I think the reason that I have so many books is that I’m an info-slut — I even buy and read books about subjects that I already am an expert in. Plus I just like the cornucopia of color that 30 books all stacked together produce on my desk ;)
Thickest tech books to date: The Usability Engineering Lifecycle by Deborah Mayhew and Ultimate Mac Programming by Dave Mark.
I agree Doug. It is time for a book. Maybe a case study book of some current projects?
Nothing beats the power of a book. A book has weight, texture, smell - learning comes best when read from a book. Web sites, on the other hand, offer the same information, but you can’t HOLD them. What fun is that?
I was disappointed too. I havent found that table yet though — Maybe they put it up since i was last at the book area. Hang on….. Ok, i found it. Elements of User experience is all sold out though. :(
It is funny we have all those books depicted in the picture.(Except for the Adobe ones). Sure, I know everything starts online and remains online, but a book has lots of advantages that go without saying.
Let’s keep urging Doug to write a book. Eventually he’ll give in!
You were at our table! All are New Riders/Pearson Education books. :) We have some of the coolest authors writing for us, which is great because we’re currently redesigning all our publisher sites to be web standards compliant, which is a pretty formidable task. I agree that Doug should be one of our authors… if you do decide to write, I can hook you up with a New Riders acquisitions editor.
Perhaps a case study book that particularly concentrates on redesigning Wired.com. That I would buy off the truck, before it even gotten to the store. I’d be that crazy chick with the gun.
Yeah writing a case study of Wired - that cult having status seems inevitable now. We just have to probably beg Doug to slip it through his pen. Or may be another CSS book probably? I don’t have Jesse’s ‘The Elements of User Experience’ :( Someone donating? ;)
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