Selected References in Information Representation

BRINGHURST Robert, The Elements of Typographic Style

• a gem on typographical design

COOPER Alan, Robert Reimann, David Cronin, About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design

• extensive methodology

DESJARLAIS Robert, Counterplay: An Anthropologist at the Chessboard

• discusses the importance of visualizing the game of chess

DIEHL Stephan, Software Visualization: Visualizing the Structure, Behaviour, and Evolution of Software

• an important topic for programmers and software analysts

DUARTE Nancy, Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences

• improve your oral communication skills

DUMIT Joseph, Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity

• anthropology of visualization; fMRI scans look deceivingly simple to interpret

FERSTER Bill, Interactive Visualization: Insight through Inquiry

FISHWICK Paul, Aesthetic Computing

• advocates the use of aesthetics approaches as practiced in arts to computing

GALLOT-LAVALLÉE Patricia, Internet, donne-moi ce que je veux ! 60 modèles de navigation pour satisfaire vos internautes

• commented collection of navigation examples

HANINGTON Bruce, Bella Martin, Universal Methods of Design

• compendium of project design methodologies

MARTIN Kemp, Visualizations: The Nature Book of Art and Science

LEBRUN Jean-Luc, Scientific Writing: A Reader and Writer's Guide

• high-level tips

LIDWELL William, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler, Universal Principles of Design

• features of the human visual perception and their impact on information visualization; a bag of >200 tricks

MCINTYRE Donald, Colour Blindness

• a rare book-format treatment of colorblindness

MONMONIER Mark, How to Lie with Maps

• raises awareness on traps in geographical representation

NELSEN Roger, Proofs without Words: Exercises in Visual Thinking

• think visually to solve mathematical problems

NIELSEN Jakob, Usability Engineering

• a classic in usability

NORMAN Donald, The Design of Everyday Things

• a classic in ergonomy

NODDER Chris, Evil by design: interaction design to lead us into temptation

• design methods that take advantage of your human psychology

REYNOLDS Garr, The Naked Presenter: Delivering Powerful Presentations With or Without Slides

ROGOWITZ Berenice, home page, articles: Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color?, A Rule-based Tool for Assisting Colormap Selection, The “Which Blair Project”: A Quick Visual Method for Evaluating Perceptual Color Maps

• about the misuse of rainbow colormaps and what to do about it

SPIES Marco, Branded Interactions

• create an brand identity for a digital object

STRUNK William Jr, The Elements of Style

• a classic in written English style

TUFTE Edward, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

• how to do better data visualizations; a bible

UCPS (University of Chicago Press Staff), The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition

• a must for all aspects of written publications

WARE Colin, Information Visualization: Perception for Design

• roots of data visualization: the human visual perception

-- VladAtanasiu - 23 Sep 2013