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The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage
Future economic growth lies in the value of experiences: good and services are no longer enough. The Experience Economy, describes a new era in which all businesses must orchestrate memorable events.
April 1, 1999 - B. Joseph Pine II, James H. Gilmore 0

Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience
The Lean UX approach to interaction design includes how to rapidly experiment with design ideas, validate them with real users, and continually adjust your design based on what you learn.
July 1, 2013 - Jeff Gothelf 1

Contextual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems
Contextual Design introduces a customer-centered approach to business, showing how data gathered from people while they work can drive the definition of a product or process.
September 15, 1997 - Hugh Beyer, Karen Holtzblatt 0

Agile Experience Design: A Digital Designer's Guide to Agile, Lean, and Continuous
This is the missing book about agile that shows how designers, product managers, and development teams can integrate experience design into lean and agile product development.
November 18, 2011 - Lindsay Ratcliffe, Marc McNeill 0

The ustwo™ Pixel Perfect Precision Handbook 2
Almost a year and a half after the first release of the PPP handbook – we still love pixels. We’ve been working hard to make it bigger, better, and more useful.
May 7, 2013 - Gyppsy 1

Intersection - How Enterprise Design Bridges the Gap Between Business, Technology and People
In Intersection, Milan Guenther introduces a Strategic Design approach that aligns the overarching design efforts in complex environments on common course, in order to shape tomorrow’s enterprises
November 19, 2012 - Milan Guenther 0

How to Market Digital Healthcare Products to Boomers, Seniors & Caregivers
This is a must read for designers who want to get inside of the heads of the 50+ audience
February 4, 2013 - Suzie Mitchell, Justin Singer 0

Prioritizing Web Usability
Prioritizing Web Usability explains site design, user experience, usability testing, navigation, prioritizing usability issues, page design, and content design.
April 30, 2006 - Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger 0

UserXman's Secret Illustrated Guide to Customer Experience

Follow the adventures of UserXman through the practice of designing effective & rewarding customer experiences.
September 1, 2013 - Tom Schneider 0

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi investigates "optimal experience," revealing what makes an experience genuinely satisfying: a state of consciousness called flow.
July 1, 2008 - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 0

Tapworthy
Learn to "think iPhone" and explore how design, psychology, culture, ergonomics, and usability combine to create a tapworthy app.
June 25, 2010 - Josh Clark 0

About Face 3
May 7, 2012 - Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin 0

Data Insights: New Ways to Visualize and Make Sense of Data
See data in a new light-find out how visualization approaches can help make data more accessible, useful, and meaningful to you.
November 21, 2012 - Hunter Whitney 0

Principles Of Software Engineering Management
Principles of Software Engineering Management is designed to help software engineers and project managers understand and solve problems involved in developing complex software systems.
January 11, 1988 - Tom Gilb 0

The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity
Cutting through a raft of technical data, Thomas Landauer explains why computers are in trouble and why massive outlays for computing have not resulted in comparable productivity payoffs.
June 6, 1996 - Thomas K. Landauer 0

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum illustrates how talented people continuously design bad software-based products and why we need technology to work the way average people think.
March 5, 2004 - Alan Cooper 0

Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior
Adaptive Path co-founder Indi Young has written a roll-up-your-sleeves book for designers, managers, and anyone else interested in making design strategic, and successful.
February 15, 2008 - Indi Young 0

Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
Emotional Design explores the deep influence the feelings that objects evoke have on consumers—from spending thousands on Gucci bags to the impact of emotion on everyday designs.
May 10, 2005 - Donald Norman 0

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables.
May 1, 2001 - Edward R. Tufte 0

Literacies Across Media
Margaret Mackey analyses how the activities of reading, viewing, and playing intertwine and affect development in young readers.
October 11, 2002 - Margaret Mackey 0

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