ken mohnkern's reading list

. . . . interaction design reading list . . . .

most sought
	Visual Thinking Rudolph Arnheim
journals & magazines
	Design Issues: History, Theory, Criticism

	eDesign

	ID Magazine

	Interactions

	The Journal of Information Design

	Wired

web design
	The Elements of User Experience: user-centered design for the web Jesse James Garrett

	Information Architecture: an emerging 21st century profession Earl Morrough

	Information Architecture: blueprints for the web Christina Wodtke

	Usability for the Web: designing web sites that work Tom Brinck, Dareen Gergle, and Scott D. Wood

	Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: designing large-scale web sites (2nd Edition) Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville
rhetoric & communication theory
	Art as Experience John Dewey

	Basic Readings in Communication Theory C. Davis Mortensen

	The Republic Plato

	Phaedrus Plato

	The Human Use of Human Beings: cybernetics and society Norbert Weiner

	Poetics Aristotle

	Now Don't Try to Reason with Me Wayne C Booth Includes a chapter called "The Rhetorical Stance," which is worth the price of the book.

	On Metaphor Sheldon Sacks (ed)

	Discovering Design: explorations in design studies Richard Buchanan and Victor Margolin (eds) (1995)

	Contemporary Rhetoric: a conceptual background with readings R. Winterowd (ed) Includes an excellent chapter called "The Nature of Form," by Kenneth Burke

Cicero

	Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student Edward PJ Corbett

	In the Vineyard of the Text: a commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon Ivan Illich

	A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms Richard A Lanham

	The Electronic Word: democracy, technology and the arts Richard A Lanham
design & visual communications
	Bringing Design to Software Terry Winograd (ed) Includes a chapter named "Keeping It Simple," by John Seely Brown and Daniel Ammann.

	Discovering Design: explorations in design studies Richard Buchanan, Victor Margolin (eds)

	Scenario-Based Design: envisioning work and technology in system development John Carroll, ed.

	Making Use John Carroll, ed.

	Graphic Design Processes: universal to unique Kenneth J Hiebert

	The Idea of Design Victor Margolin, Richard Buchanan (eds)

	Understanding Comics Scott McCloud

	A History of Graphic Design Philip B Meggs

	Type and Image: the language of graphic design Philip B Meggs

	The Design of Everyday Things (1988) Donald A Norman

	Design for the Real World: human ecology and social change (1992) Victor Papanek

	The Sciences of the Artificial Herbert A Simon I don't know a thing about this book, and I don't always agree

	Pioneers of Modern Typography Herbert Spencer

	Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Type Works Erik Spiekermann, EM Ginger

	The Form of the Book: essays on the morality of good design Jan Tschichold

	The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983) Edward R Tufte

	Envisioning Information (1990) Edward R Tufte

	Visual Explanations (1997) Edward R Tufte

	Beyond the Mac Is Not a Typewriter: more typographic insights and secrets (1997) Robin Williams
architecture
	Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander

	A Pattern Language: towns, buildings, construction Christopher Alexander

	How Buildings Learn: what happens after they're built Stuart Brand
concept mapping & clustering
	Learning How to Learn Joseph D Novack, D Bob Gowin

	Writing the Natural Way Gabriele Rico
human-computer interface & interaction design
	Understanding Hypermedia 2.000 (1997) Bob Cotton, Richard Oliver

	Web Navigation: Designing the User Experience (1998) Jennifer Fleming

	Don't Make me Think Steve Krug

	Computers As Theatre (1993) Brenda Laurel

	The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems () Jef Raskin

	TOG on Interface Bruce Tognazinni

	TOG on Interface Bruce Tognazinni

	Designing Web Graphics Lynda Weinman (2003)
visual arts
	On Photography Susan Sontag
social & behavioral sciences
	Flow: the psychology of optimal experience Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

	The Meaning of Things: domestic symbols and the self Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

	The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception James J Gibson
psychology & studies in technical communication
	Protocol Analysis: verbal reports as data KA Eriksson & Herbert Simon (1984)
technical studies
	Technopoly: the surrender of culture to technology Niel Postman

	Why Things Bite Back: technology and the revenge of unintended consequences Edward Tenner Maybe I had the wrong expectations from a book titled "Why Things Bite Back." I expected to read what it was about things and our relationships to them that create discomfort and even tragedy. I wanted an exploration into why the drawbacks of things are overlooked until it's too late, and how we can learn to avoid that. Instead I got "A Bunch of Things That Go Wrong," story after story of the unforseen consequences of technologies. I was looking for insight and got observation instead.