Information design resources
Listings with no date were posted prior to March 2003. Newer listings are individually dated.
Content and Complexity, edited by Mike Albers and Beth Mazur. 2003. Lea (publisher). ISBN 0805841415.
Dillon, Andrew. 1994. Designing usable electronic text: Ergonomic aspects of human information usage. London, UK: Taylor and Francis, ISBN 074840113X.
Dynamic Diagrams Includes case studies. Posted August 2005.
Elegant Hack, Christina Wodtke
Escoe, Adrienne. 2001. The practical guide to people-friendly documentation. Milwaukee: ASQ Quality Press. Presents several kinds of policy and procedure formats and a chart for determining the formats that best meet particular needs. Posted July 2005.
Fifty Writing Tools The introductory column to the workbench of Roy Peter Clark. Posted July 2005.
FORMS
http://www.stcsig.org/usability/topics/forms.html
http://www.formsthatwork.com/
Posted January 2006Hackos, JoAnn T., and Dawn M. Stevens. 1997. Standards for online communication. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0471156957.
Horton, William K. 1994. Designing and writing online documentation. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, ISBN 0471306355.
InformationDesign.org (Peter J. Bogaards, http://www.bogieland.com/)
Information Mapping. Research note by Namahn, a user-centered design consultancy based in Brussels, Belgium.
Jacobson, Robert, ed. 1999. Information design. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, ISBN 0262600358.
Kristoff, Ray, and Amy Satran. 1995. Interactivity by design: Creating and communicating with new media. Mountain View, CA: Adobe Press, ISBN 1568302215.
LaSpina, James A. 1998. The visual turn and the transformation of the textbook. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc, ISBN 0805827021.
Miller, Drue. Seven Deadly Sins of Information Design. Netscape article, 1999. Posted May 2005.
Minto, Barbara. 1996. The Minto Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing, Thinking, & Problem Solving. Minto International. Posted May 2005.
Paradis, James G., and Muriel L. Zimmerman. 1997. The MIT guide to science and engineering communication. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, ISBN 0262161427.
Readability Research (Topics in Usability, STC Usability SIG)
Schriver, Karen. 1997. Dynamics in document design. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0471306363.
Swann, Alan. 1990. How to understand and use design and layout. Cincinnati, OH: North Light Books, ISBN 089134358X.
Thissen, Frank. 2004. Screen design manual: communicating effectively through multimedia. Berlin: Springer. Posted May 2005.
Unified Field Theory of Design Nathan Shedroff
Williams, Robin. 1994. The non-designer’s design book. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, ISBN 1566091594.
White, Jan V. 2003. Editing by design. 3rd edition. New York: Allworth. Posted May 2005.
Wurman, Richard Saul. 1989. Information anxiety. New York, NY: Doubleday/Bantam. (Information Anxiety 2, ISBN 0789724103; the first is out of print)