General Usability Texts

• Dumas, Joseph S. Designing User Interfaces for Software. Prentice-Hall, 1988.
• Landauer, Thomas K. The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity. MIT Press, 1995.
• Mullet, Kevin and Darrell Sano. Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication-Oriented Techniques. Prentice Hall, 1995.
• Preece, Jenny, ed. Human-Computer Interaction. Addison-Wesley, 1994.
• Shneiderman, Ben. Designing the User Interface. Addison-Wesley, 1992.

Interface Guidelines and Standards

• Apple Computer, Inc. Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines. Addison-Wesley, 1992.
• Marcus, Aaron, Nick Smilonich and Lynne Thompson.The Cross-GUI Handbook; for Multiplatform User Interface Design. Addison-Wesley, 1995.
• Open Software Foundation. OSF/Motif Syle Guide. Prentice-Hall, 1991.
• Sun Microsystems, Inc. OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface Application Style Guidelines. Addison-Wesley, 1990.

Studies of Users

• Brown, Judith R. and Steve Cunningham. Programming the User Interface: Principles and Examples. John Wiley & Sons, 1989.
• Carroll, John M. and Robert L. Mack. "Learning to Use A Word Processor: By Doing, by Thinking, and by Knowing." Reprinted in Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: A Multidisciplinary Approch, ed. R. M. Baecker and W. A. S. Buxton. Morgan Kaufmann, 1987, pp. 278-297.
• Courtney, Alan J. "Chinese Population Stereotypes: Color Associations." Human Factors,, Vol 28, No. 1, 1986, pp. 97-100.
• Gould, J. D. and C. Lewis. "Designing for Usability: Key Principles and What Designers Think." Communications of the ACM, Vol 28, 1985, pp. 300-311.
• Kiger, John I. "The Depth-Breadth Trade-off in the Design of Menu-driven User Interfaces." International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, Vol. 20, 1984, 201-213.
• Mack, Robert L., Clayton H. Lewis, and John M. Carroll. "Learning to Use Word Processors: Problems and Prospects." Reprinted in Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: A Multidisciplinary Approch, ed. R. M. Baecker and W. A. S. Buxton. Morgan Kaufmann, 1987, pp. 269-277.
• Miller, George. "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information." The Psychological Review, Vol. 63, No. 2, 1956, pp. 81-97.
• Murch, Gerald. "Physiological Principles for the Effective Use of Colors." IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Nov. 1984, pp. 49-54.
• Neilsen, Jakob and Jonathan Levy. "Measuring Usability: Preference vs. Performance. Communications of the ACM, Vol 37, No. 4, 1994, pp. 67-75.
• Norman, Donald A. "Categorization of Action Slips." Psychological Review, 1981, Vol. 88, pp. 1-15.
• Norman, Donald A. The Design of Everyday Things. Doubleday Currency, 1988.
• Pancake, Cherri M. "Improving the Quality of Numerical Software through User-Centered Design." In The Quality of Numerical Software: Assessment and Enhancement, ed. B. Ford and J. Rice, Chapman & Hall, 1996.
• Rehe, Rolf F. Typography: How to Make It Most Legible. Design Research International, 1974.
• Trollip, Stanley R. and Gregory Sales. "Readability of Computer-Generated Fill-Justified Text," Human Factors, 1986, 28(3), pp. 159-163.