UX Essays and Articles

A list of essays and longer articles that provide a good foundation for understanding some principles of the UX area.

It is a list in progress and if you have a suggestion please let me know.

Bill Verplank, et al, “Designing the Star User Interface” (1982)

John D. Gould and Clayton Lewis, “Designing for Usability: Key Principles and What Designers Think” (pdf) (1985)

Don Norman, “Affordances and Design” (1988)

Jeff Raskin, “Intuitive Equals Familiar” (1994)

Lauralee Alben, “At the Heart of Interaction Design” (pdf) (1996)

Chris Pacione, “Making Meaning” (pdf) (2000)

Scott Berkun, “Strategies of Influence for Interaction Designers” (2001)

Marcia J Bates, “Toward an integrated model of information seeking and searching” (pdf) (2002)

Don Norman, “Emotion and Design: Attractive Things Work Better” (2002)

Alan Cooper, “The Origin of Personas” (2003)

Andrei Herasimchuk, “Please Make Me Think!: Are high-tech usability priorities backwards?”(2004)

Barry Schwartz, “The Tyranny of Choice” (pdf) (2004)

Dan Hill, “Insanely Great, Or Just Good Enough?” (2004)

Paul Dourish, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Context” (pdf) (2004)

Michael Bierut, “On (Design) Bullshit” (2005)

Jared Spool, “What Makes a Design Seem Intuitive?” (2005)

Michael Bierut, “This is My Process” (2006)

Don Norman, “Simplicity is Highly Overrated” (2007)

Bill Buxton, “The Long Nose of Innovation” (2008)

Paul Graham, “Six Principles for Making New Things” (2008)

Don Norman, “Technology First, Needs Last” (2009)

Paul Seys, “11 Principles of Interaction Design Explained” (2010)