IA Required Reading???
I had dinner this evening with a friend who is a junior IA. He has only been doing IA work for about a year, as he started off as a graphic designer, and has moved into our world, quite successfully. At dinner we got talking about books and such and he asked me if I was teaching a class on IA, what books would be required reading…
So this post is for Greg…
Top 10 Favorite IA/UX books in no particular order:
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Muller
The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte
Beautiful Evidence by Edward Tufte
Visual Explanations by Edward Tufte
Dont Make Me Think by Steve Krug
Communicating Design by Dan Brown
A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
How Buildings Learn by Stuart Brand
I have two caveats for this list. I intentionally left off the Polar Bear book. Mainly because I think everyone has to have read it before, and that a lot of the content is focused on the hard-core library science side of IA, which in my mind is becoming a separate specialty in the IA field.
If I could add a number 11, I think I would also add Indi Young’s new book, Mental Models.
I would love to hear from others who may have other suggestions, as well…
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