Books
At 80beans we love to read about business, development and design. Below is an incomplete list of the books we have at the office. We’ll try to write some stuff about them over time and do some categorization. All books are in English unless stated otherwise.
Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can’t Get a Date by Robert X. Cringely
Against the Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson
Ambient Findability by Peter Morville
Artful Making by Robert Austin & Lee Devin
Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications by Patrick Lenz
Bulletproof Web Design by D. Cederholm
Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions by A. Budd
Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices by Dan Saffer
Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell
Designing with Web Standards by J. Zeldman
Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by S. Krug
DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model by J. Keith
Essential ActionScript 2.0 by C. Moock
Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury & Bruce Patton
High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers by Steve Souders
HTML Mastery: Semantics, Standards, and Styling by Paul Haine
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Louis Rosenfeld & Peter Morville
Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 by John Allsopp
ppk on JavaScript by P. Koch
Prioritizing Web Usability by J. Nielsen
Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns by Michael Bowers
Pro CSS Techniques by J. Croft
Pro JavaScript Techniques by John Resig
Projectmanagement by R. Grit (NL)
Revolution in the Valley by Andy Hertzfeld
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design by Jason Beaird
Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design by Andy Clarke & Molly E. Holzschlag
Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee
Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance by Andrew Kirkpatrick
Web Application Design Handbook: Best Practices for Web-Based Software by Susan Fowler & Victor Stanwick
Web Design: Studios by J. Wiedemann
Web Standards Creativity: Innovations in Web Design with XHTML, CSS, and DOM Scripting by Andy Budd
Web Standards Solutions by D. Cederholm
Website Usability by W. van der Put (NL)