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Books like About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design

About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper is about interaction design, user-centered design, mental models. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. Don't Make Me Think
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    Don't Make Me Think

    Steve Krug · Business

    Don't Make Me Think is Steve Krug's short, plainspoken guide to web usability.

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  2. The Design of Everyday Things
    The Design of Everyday Things

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    The Design of Everyday Things

    Donald Norman · Psychology

    The Design of Everyday Things began as The Psychology of Everyday Things when first published in 1988, and Donald Norman revised it substantially for a 2013 edition that updated the examples for a digital age.

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  3. The Elements of User Experience
    The Elements of User Experience

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    The Elements of User Experience

    Jesse James Garrett · Self-help

    The Elements of User Experience is Jesse James Garrett's attempt to give the field of web design a shared vocabulary and a structural framework at a moment — 2002 — when web design was still being understood as a single discipline rather than several interrelated ones.

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  4. Laws of UX
    Laws of UX

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    Laws of UX

    Jon Yablonski · Science

    Laws of UX is Jon Yablonski's collection of ten principles drawn from psychology and cognitive science that bear directly on user interface design.

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  5. Universal Principles of Design

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    Universal Principles of Design

    William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler · Science

    Universal Principles of Design is a reference book organized as an encyclopedia: 125 design principles, each given a two-page spread with a clear definition, a visual example, and a brief note on application.

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  6. A Brief History of Time
    A Brief History of Time

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    A Brief History of Time

    Stephen Hawking · Science

    A Brief History of Time is Stephen Hawking's attempt to explain the biggest questions in physics — where the universe came from, how it behaves, and where it might be going — to readers with no scientific training.

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