General Design
- Bringhurst, Robert. The Elements of Typographic Style, 2nd ed. Vancouver: Hartley and Marks, 2004.
- Kufmann Jr., Edgar. What Is Modern Design? New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1950.
- Lidwell, William, Kristina Holden, and Jill Butler. Universal Principles of Design. Gloucester, MA: Rockport Publishers, 2003.
- Marcus, George H. What Is Design Today? New York: Abrams, 2002.
- Pile, John F. Design. Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1979.
- Rehe, Rolf F. Typography: How To Make It Most Legible. Carmel, IN: Design Research International, 1974.
- Rogers, Everett M. The Diffusion of Innovations, 4th ed. New York: The Free Press, 1995.
- Sullivan, Louis H. The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered. Lippincott’s Magazine, March 1896.
- Tinker, Miles. Legibility of Print. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1963.
- Tufte, Edward. Envisioning Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1990.
- Wheildon, Colin. Type & Layout: How Typography and Design Can Get Your Message Across, or Get in the Way. Berkeley: Strathmoor Press, 1996.
- Williams, Robin. The Nondesigner’s Design Book. Berkeley: Peachpit Press, 1994.
Universal Design
- Connell, Bettye Rose, Mike Jones, Ron Mace, Jim Mueller, Abir Mullick, Elaine Ostroff, Jon Sanford, Ed Steinfeld, Molly Story, and Gregg Vanderheiden. Principles of Universal Design. North Carolina State University, The Center for Universal Design, 1997.
- Dreyfuss, Henry. Designing for People. New York: Allworth Press, 2003. First published 1955 by Simon and Schuster.
- Henry Dreyfuss Associates. The Measure of Man and Woman: Human Factors in Design. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1993. First published 1959 under the title: The Measure of Man.
- Story, Molly Follette. The Universal Design File: Designing for People of All Ages and Abilities. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State University, Center for Universal Design, 1998.
- Preiser, Wolfgang, and Elaine Ostroff, eds. Universal Design Handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2001.
- Trace Research and Development Center. General Concepts, Universal Design Principles and Guidelines.
Interface design
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI).
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing (SIGACCESS).
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Conference on Universal Usability.
- IBM Corporation. Human Ability and Accessibility Center.
- Mullet, K., and Darrell Sano. Designing Visual Interfaces: Communications-Oriented Techniques. Mountain View, CA: SunSoft Press, 1995.
- Norman, Donald. The Design of Everyday Things. New York: Basic Books, 2002.
- Norman, Donald. The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
- Shneiderman, Ben. Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
- Shneiderman, Ben. Universal Usability (PDF). Communications of the ACM 43, no. 5 (May 2000): 84–91.
- Shneiderman, Ben and Catherine Plaisant. Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 4th ed. Boston: Addison Wesley Professional, 2004.
Web Design
- A List Apart.
- Agelight. Interface Design Guidelines for Users of All Ages (PDF).
- Berners-Lee, Tim. Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
- Boxes and Arrows: The Design Behind the Design.
- Cederholm, Dan. Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook. Berkeley: Friends of ED, 2004.
- Cockburn, Andy, Saul Greenberg, Steve Jones, Bruce Mckenzie, and Michael Moyle. Improving Web Page Revisitation: Analysis, Design, and Evaluation (PDF). IT & Society 1, no. 3 (Winter 2003): 159–183.
- CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design.
- Digital Web Magazine.
- Hill, Alyson, and Lauren Scharff. Readability of Web Sites with Various Foreground/Background Color Combinations, Font Types, and Word Styles. 1997.
- Horton, Sarah. Forging a Partnership Between Designer and User. Digital Web Magazine, September 1, 2004.
- Horton, Sarah. Beauty Is Only Screen Deep. Boxes and Arrows, October 14, 2002.
- Krug, Steve. Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. Indianapolis: Que, 2001.
- Lynch, Patrick, and Sarah Horton. Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Also available online at www.webstyleguide.com.
- Meyer, Eric. Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2000.
- Meyer, Eric. Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design. Indianapolis: New Riders, 2003
- Meyer, Eric. Really Undoing html.css. Meyerweb.com, September 15, 2004.
- Moss, Trenton. Writing Effective Link Text. Evolt.org, July 23, 2004.
- Musciano, Chuck and Bill Kennedy. HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 5th ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2002.
- Nielsen, Jakob. Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity. Indianapolis: New Riders, 2000.
- Nielsen, Jakob. The Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability.
- Nielsen, Jakob. How Users Read on the Web. The Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability, October 1, 1997.
- Nielsen, Jakob, and Marie Tahir. Homepage Usability: 50 Web Sites Deconstructed. Indianapolis: New Riders, 2002.
- Shea, Dave, and Molly E. Holzschlag. The Zen of CSS Design. Berkeley: Peachpit Press, 2005.
- Koyani, Sanjay J., Robert W. Bailey, Janice R. Nall, Conrad Mulligan, Susan Allison, Kent Bailey, and Mark Tolson. Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, September 2003.
- Usability News.
- Veen, Jeffrey. The Art and Science of Web Design. Indianapolis: New Riders, 2000.
- Zeldman. Jeffrey. Designing with Web Standards. Indianapolis: New Riders, 2003.
Web accessibility
- Adobe. Adobe: Accessibility.
- Arditi, Aries. Effective Color Contrast: Designing for People with Partial Sight and Color Deficiencies. Lighthouse International, 2005.
- Arditi, Aries. Making Text Legible: Designing for People with Partial Sight. Lighthouse International, 2005.
- Brewer, Judy, ed. How People with Disabilities Use the Web. W3C, 2004.
- Chisholm, Wendy, Gregg Vanderheiden, and Ian Jacobs, eds. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. W3C, 1999.
- Chong, Curtis. Making Your Web Site Accessible to the Blind. National Federation of the Blind, 2002.
- Clark, Joe. Building Accessible Web Sites. Indianapolis: New Riders, 2003.
- CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media. Rich Media Resource Center.
- Freedom Scientific. The HTML Challenge [no longer at http://www.freedomscientific.com/html_challenge/]. 2003.
- Horton, Sarah. Making Web Accessible to All. New York Times, June 10, 2002, C4. Also available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/10/technology/10neco.html.
- IBM Corporation. Web Accessibility Developer Guidelines. 2004.
- Macromedia. Accessibility Resource Center.
- Paciello, Michael G. Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities. Gilroy, CA: CMP Books, 2000.
- Pilgrim, Mark. Dive into Accessibility, 2002.
- Regan, Bob. Best Practices for Accessible Flash Design (PDF). Bob Regan: Accessibility, May 2004.
- Slatin, John M., and Sharron Rush. Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone. Boston: Addison Wesley Professional, 2002.
- Thatcher, Jim, Paul Bohman, Michael Burks, Shawn Lawton Henry, Bob Regan, Sarah Swierenga, Mark D. Urban, and Cynthia D. Waddell. Constructing Accessible Web Sites. Birmingham, UK: glasshaus, 2002.
- WebAIM: Web Accessibility in Mind.