Usability

Selling Usability: User Experience Infiltration Tactics
$24.95
This book is excellent - insightful, relevant and most specifically written in a way that demonstrates lots of personal experience and success from thinking strategically. In fact, while reading -- it felt like John actually had first hand knowledge of the challenges I face in my current role. His approach to gaining buy-in is both practical and logical.

I value the end of chapter summaries - which enables you to refer to specific tactics and quickly. The chapter titles also make this book very scannable and easy to read.

Well done - I highly recommend reading!

Handbook of Usability Testing: Howto Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests
$60.00
A very good review of testing for the web. It is one of the three or four title worth reading on this subject

Moderating Usability Tests: Principles and Practices for Interacting (Interactive Technologies)
$39.95
If you would like to get a good understanding of what it takes to facilitate a usability test, this is a perfect guide. It provides an incredibly insightful overview of the entire process paying particular attention to the issue of interacting with the participants. You will get tons of practical information as well as theory and observe videos demonstrating examples of test moderation. It's just a great book!

Eyetracking Web Usability
$59.99
Eyetracking Web Usability is based on one of the largest studies of eyetracking usability in existence. Best-selling author Jakob Nielsen and coauthor Kara Pernice used rigorous usability methodology and eyetracking technology to analyze 1.5 million instances where users look at Web sites to understand how the human eyes interact with design. Their findings will help designers, software developers, writers, editors, product managers, and advertisers understand what people see or don¡Çt see, when they look, and why.

With their comprehensive three-year study, the authors confirmed many known Web design conventions and the book provides additional insights on those standards. They also discovered important new user behaviors that are revealed here for the first time. Using compelling eye gaze plots and heat maps, Nielsen and Pernice guide the reader through hundreds of examples of eye movements, demonstrating why some designs work and others don¡Çt. They also provide valuable advice for page layout, navigation menus, site elements, image selection, and advertising. This book is essential reading for anyone who is serious about doing business on the Web.