Happy 2009! Hope your past two weeks were filled with festivities, feasting, and family fun.
In between the celebrations and sick days (our house was hit by a variety of phlegm-filled plagues), I spent several hours luxuriating in the company of some of the web industry's finest thinkers. That is to say, I read a lot. As I'm on an insane (albeit self-imposed) deadline for my book about content strategy, I needed to get as much research done as possible in a very short amount of time.
Many of these titles have been on my shelf for years and are my go-to reference guides. A few were brand-new undertakings. Many, I love. Some, I do not. (I'll save the reviews and commentary for future blog posts.) Regardless, here's the list.
- Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug
- Letting Go of the Words by Ginny Redish
- Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning by Dan Brown
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Peter Morville & Louis Rosenfeld
- The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett
- The Ten Demandments by Kelly Mooney
- Content Critical by Gerry McGovern
- Web Analytics Demystified by Eric Peterson
- Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works by Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler
- Get Content. Get Customers. by Joe Pulizzi and Newt Barrett
- The Principles of Beautiful Web Design by Jason Beaird
- Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web by Christina Wodtke
- The Web Content Strategist's Bible by Richard Sheffield
If I'm looking for every useful book out there that discusses (even sideways) planning,
creating, and managing web content … what did I miss?