Tag: journal

I pulled this list of papers (and books) whilst reading “Universal Principle of Design” by William Lidwell. The following seemed interesting from a design perspective, and from those that I’ve found access to and read they’ve yet to be boring:

• “Categorization  of Action Slips” by Donald A. Norman
• “All That Glitters: A Review of Psychological Research on the Aesthetics of the Golden Section” by Christopher D. Green, Perception, 1995
• “Did Mozart Use the Golden Section?” by Mike May, American Scientist,March-April 1996
• “Application of Fitts’ Law to Foot-Pedal Design” by Colin G. Drury, Human Factors, 1975
• “The Information Capacity of the Human Motor System in Controlling Amplitude of Movement” by Paul M. Fitts, Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1954,
• “The Visible Problems of the Invisible Computer: A Skeptical Look at Information Appliances” by Andrew Odlyzko, First Monday, 1999
• “The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice” by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, Science, 1981
• “On the Rate of Gain of Information” by W. E. Hick, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1952
• “The Architecture of Complexity,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 1962,
• “Icons at the Interface: Their Usefulness” by Yvonne Rogers, Interacting With Computers
• “International Investment and International Trade in the Product Cycle” by Raymond Vernon,Quarterly Journal of Economics,1966,
• “Surrogates and Mappings: Two Kinds of Conceptual Models for Interactive Devices” by Richard M. Young
• “Some Observations on Mental Models” by Donald Norman
• “A Message from Earth” by Carl Sagan, Linda Salzman Sagan, and Frank Drake, Science, Feb. 25, 1972, vol. 175(4024), p. 881–884
• “Training Wheels in a User Interface” by John M. Carroll and Caroline Carrithers,Communications of the ACM,1984,
• “The Xerox ‘Star’: A Retrospective” by Jeff Johnson and Teresa L. Roberts, William Verplank, David C. Smith, Charles Irby, Marian Beard, Kevin Mackey, inHuman Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000

I will probably continue to add to this list over time.