FURTHER READING

Designing Interfaces, by Jenifer Tidwell (O'Reilly, 2006).

This book gives a broad tour of various interface elements and principles of interaction design. Discussions cover both software graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and web interfaces. Among other things, Tidwell covers many mechanisms in detail using patterns, which are a way of representing a prototypical solution to commonly encountered design problems. This book contains hands-on information and is well-suited for practitioners.

Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, Edited by Stuart Card, Jock Mackinlay and Ben Shneiderman (Morgan Kaufmann, 1999).

This collection of classic papers has quickly become the standard volume for information visualization. It is academic in nature, but clearly written and approachable. With over 700 pages and 47 articles, it is a valuable reference source.

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