Reading and Viewing

Textbooks

1. The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, 2nd Ed.. By Jason Beaird. Sitepoint 2010. ISBN: 098057689X
2. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Ed. By Steve Krug. New Riders 2005. ISBN: 0321344758

See our Amazon Listmania List for these and other books.

Lynda.com Tutorials

• Podcast + Videocast Essential Training (5:04) 2006
• Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals (17:33) 2010
• Flash Pro CS5 Essential Training (7:07) 2010
• WordPress.com 3 Essential Training (5:42) 2011

Readings

1. Apple Computer. User Experience Guidelines (from Apple Human Interface Guidelines. 2011)
2. Blythe Goodman, Tammy. Online Reputation Guide for College Students. December 3, 2010.
3. Dutton, Denis. Aesthetic Universals (from The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics. 2002)
4. Goodwin, Kim. Perfecting your Personas. August 1, 2001.
5. McCandlish, Stanton. EFF's Top 12 Ways to Protect Your Online Privacy. Apr. 10, 2002.
6. Media Education Foundation. How to be a critical media viewer. 2005.
7. Mitchell, Amy. The Tablet Revolution. October 25, 2011.
8. Nielsen, Jakob. Usability 101: Introduction to Usability. August 25, 2003.
9. Nielsen, Jakob. Feature Richness and User Engagement. August 6, 2007.
10. O'Reilly, Tim. What Is Web 2.0?. September 30, 2005.
11. Pew Research Center, Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change. Feb 24, 2010.
12. Pilgrim, Mark. Five Things You Should Know About HTML5 (from Dive into HTM5)
13. Roush, Wade. Second Earth. MIT Technology Review, July-August 2007.
14. Smith, Aaron. Americans and their gadgets. Pew Research Center, Oct 14, 2010.
15. Stanford University How Do People Evaluate a Web Site's Credibility? (abstract). November 11 2002.
16. Templeton, Brad .10 Big Myths about copyright explained. October 2008
17. Thomas, Frank and Ollie Johnston. The 12 Basic Principles Of Animation. 2011.
18. Ulanoff, Lance. 5 Tech Trends to Watch in 2012. December 27, 2011.
19. U.S. Copyright Office The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998: U.S. Copyright Office Summary. November 1998.

Videos

1. Becker, Alan. Animator vs. Animation. June 3, 2006. [Flash original]
2. Ferguson, Kirby. Everything is a remix. September 12, 2010.
3. Inman, Matthew. How to get 5 million people to read your website. Aug 10, 2010.
4. Lefever, Lee. Podcasting in plain english. April 21, 2008.
5. Lessig, Larry. How creativity is being strangled by the law. November 6, 2007.
6. Lytle, Wayne. Resonant Chamber (from "Animusic 2"). November 19, 2005.
7. PBS (Douglas Rushkoff and Rachel Dretzin). Frontline: Digital Nation. February 2, 2010.
8. Ray, Kate. Web 3.0. May 6, 2010.

Images

1. Duke University (Boyle, Jenkins, and Aoki). Bound by Law? (comic book). 2006.
2. Ecreative Internet Marketing. How to Tell if Your Website Sucks! (infographic). June 2011.
3. CompareBusinessProducts.com . WTF is HTML5 and why we should all care (infographic). June 9, 2010.

Image La caverne aux livres by Alexandre Duret-Lutz; Some rights reserved.