required textbooks

Helen Sharp, Yvonne Rogers, Jenny Preece
Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction, 3rd edition.
Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated. 2007.

Don Norman.
The {Design, Psychology, Psychopathology} of Everyday Things.
New York: Basic Books, 1988. (All variant titles are the same.)

recommended textbooks

Edward Tufte.
Envisioning Information.
Chesire, CT: Graphics Press, 1990.

Johannes Itten.
The Art of Color, New York: Wiley, 1997.

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