Interaction Design: beyond human-computer interaction

Yvonne Rogers, Helen Sharp, Jenny Preece

A very complete book about interaction design. It explains interaction design providing numerous examples, resources and references. Also you can find numerous practical cases all along the book so you can apply the theory.

100 Things every designer needs to know about people

Susan Weinschenk

In this book, Susan gives us a hint on how our brain works and why we do things the way we do. With very illustrative examples and lots of references to psycology researches to dig deeper in the subject. Though we can consider this book as a basic for any UX designer and UX developer we can say it is also a must-have in your bookshelf, as it counts with a very dense bibliography

Creativity. Flow and the psychology of discovery and invention.

Mihaly Csikszenmihalyi

Sensation and Perception

Bruce Goldstein, Colin Ryan and John Baro

Lean UX: applying agile principles to improve User Experience

Jeff Gothelf with Josh Seiden

How to Run a Great Workshop

Nikki Highmore Sims

Designing interfaces: Patterns for effective interaction Design

Jenifer Tidwell

When I first discovered the web site ten years ago I found it very useful for my final project disertation and in general for work. It describes in depth UI patterns and solutions as well as  UI best practices by giving numerous examples on how to apply them and providing online resources

I have been using this book for many years as a reference and every time I find a new problem I go back to my UX bookshelf to use it as an starting point in the research on how to solve it.

Universal Principles of Design: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions and Teach through Desing

William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler

As mentioned in Interaction desing: beyond human-computer interaction one inspiration resource for creating good principles when evaluating a prototype or an interface is using design principles. This is a good book to start with. As mentioned in the introduction desing is affected by principles coming from different disciplines as it happens in HCI. Using this exhaustive list can be very useful when evaluating and developing a system.

Undercover User Experience Design

Cennyd Bowles and James Box

I discovered this book just recently in an UX bootcamp organized by GA. I find it very useful to get an overview of the UX processes in all stages of the design process as well as a good reference book for resources and techniques.

It also provides tips to introduce UX processes in agile environments and start-ups that lacks a team dedicated to UX design.

The design of every day things

Donald A. Norman

Designing Usability.

Nielsen, J.

Prioritizing  Web Usability

Nielsen, J. and Loranger, H.

Software for Use. A practical guide to the model and methods of Usage Centered Design.

Constantine and Lockwood

Usability. The site speaks for itself.

Braun,  K., Gadney, M.  and 5 more.

Innovative Techniques of web design.

Penny McIntire