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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.

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

This is a must read for designers who want to get inside of the heads of the 50+ audience

Prioritizing Web Usability explains site design, user experience, usability testing, navigation, prioritizing usability issues, page design, and content design.

Follow the adventures of UserXman through the practice of designing effective & rewarding customer experiences.

Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi investigates "optimal experience," revealing what makes an experience genuinely satisfying: a state of consciousness called flow.

Learn to "think iPhone" and explore how design, psychology, culture, ergonomics, and usability combine to create a tapworthy app.

See data in a new light-find out how visualization approaches can help make data more accessible, useful, and meaningful to you.

Principles of Software Engineering Management is designed to help software engineers and project managers understand and solve problems involved in developing complex software systems.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables.

Margaret Mackey analyses how the activities of reading, viewing, and playing intertwine and affect development in young readers.

Critic Sven Birkerts explores the impact of technology on the experience of reading. The Gutenberg Elegies explores how literature intimately shapes and nourishes the inner life.

A helpful guide for documenting the various stages that create a UX design, Communicating the User Experience provides insights for those new to the field and polishing techniques for veterans.

Predictably Irrational presents illuminating experiments by MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely that refute the assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways.

With Made to Stick, accomplished educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier.