User Interface design books/resources for programmers [closed]

Answer 1

The Apple Human Interface Guidlines are great!

Answer 2

Asked recently on another question. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/158769/best-books-to-learn-about-design

Good list there.

Answer 3

Although completely independent of web and programming, The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman taught me a lot!

For a less in-depth, more cook-book approach (if you don't want to think), try Robin Williams' The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice.

Presonally I much prefer The Design of Everyday Things.

Answer 4

This is not directly related to GUI design or programming, but The Psychology of Everyday Things is a good book to read.

It is a general look at how things are designed and how they fail. The concepts in this book, although not directly applicable to GUI's, do apply. In fact you could say they apply to all instances of user centered design.

http://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/dp/0465067093

Answer 5

AboutFace.3.0 The Essentials of Interaction Design would be good Idea to read

Answer 6

Additionally to the great hints given so far, also see the Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines, as described in this interesting blog post by Kirill Osenkov.