[thelist] Design Help

> Design (Psychology) of Everday Things - Donald Norman
> Visual Explainations - Edward Tufte
> Inmates are Running the Asylum - Alan Cooper

I'd add to that list, Web Navigation by Jennifer Fleming which is sound, and
another one which looks promising and I am about to read, Great Web
Architecture by Clay Andres.

> 
> Also:
> http://useit.com/  - Jakob Nielsen (he has a web
> design book out, but I can't recommend it)

I can't really recommend it either and I have read it twice - once as part
of a peer review with my Web Solutions colleagues here at Objectspace. There
is a full review of Nielsen's book at uidesign.net

> Some closing thoughts:
> _Imitation_ (not rote copying) is the greatest from of flattery.
> "...great artists steal."

Couldn't agree more. My own site was "inspired" by the BBC News site.
news.bbc.co.uk and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

David
David Anderson
www.uidesign.net <http://www.uidesign.net> 
The Webzine for Interaction Designers