Some User Interface Design Fundamentals

User Interface Design for Programmers by Joel Spolsky (Paperback - Jun 26, 2001)

About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper and Robert M. Reimann (Paperback - Mar 17, 2003)

The Elements of User Interface Design by Theo Mandel (Paperback - Feb 1997)

Ambient Findability by Peter Morville (Paperback - Oct 1, 2005) - Illustrated

User Interface Design and Evaluation (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) by Debbie Stone, Caroline Jarrett, Mark Woodroffe, and Shailey Minocha (Paperback - Mar 22, 2005)

The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman (Paperback - Sep 2002)

The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems by Jef Raskin (Paperback - Mar 29, 2000)

The Essential Guide to User Interface Design: An Introduction to GUI Design Principles and Techniques, 2nd Edition
by Wilbert O. Galitz (Paperback - May 2002)
Excerpt - page 34: "... 34 INTRODUCTION TO SCREEN DESIGN FOR THE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE recognition.) When you're finished with ..."

About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design by Alan Cooper (Paperback - Aug 11, 1995)
Excerpt - page 1: "... I: The foal Designing for Users Technology is the engine that drives user interface design. ..."

The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design: An Application Design Guide by Microsoft Corporation (Paperback - May 1995)
Excerpt - page 3: "... Design Principles and Methodology A well-designed user interface is built on principles and ..."

Interface Design: Effective Design of Graphical User Interfaces for the Web and Multimedia Pages by Alistair Dabbs (Paperback - Sep 2002)
Excerpt - page 16: "... frequently as elements of everyday interface design; they are more likely to ..."

Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) by Carolyn Snyder (Paperback - April 2, 2003)
Excerpt - page 3: "... for designing, testing, and refining user interfaces. In the early 1990s it ..."

The User Interface: Concepts And Design by Lon Barfield (Paperback - Mar 31, 2004)
Excerpt - page 1: "... reader in mind, is what user interface design is all ..."

User Interface Design: Bridging the Gap from User Requirements to Design by Larry E. Wood (Hardcover - Dec 2, 1997)
Excerpt - page 2: "... USER INTERFACE DESIGN effective design, there is usually ..."

Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites; Second Edition by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton (Hardcover - April 10, 2002)

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (2nd Edition) by Steve Krug (Paperback - Aug 18, 2005)

Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell (Paperback - Nov 21, 2005) - Illustrated

The Essential Guide to User Interface Design by Wilbert O. Galitz (Paperback - Jun 15, 2002)
Excerpt - page 53: "... The User Interface Design Process Part 2 presents an extensive series of guidelines for the interface design process. ..."

User Interface Design: A Software Engineering Perspective by Soren Lauesen (Paperback - Feb 14, 2005)

Sites - Jakob Nielsen's Website
The most widely read and recognized usability expert, Dr. Nielsen was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer.
http://www.useit.com/
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030825.html

Future Perfect, Jan Chipchase
Principal Researcher, User Research at NokiaBlog
http://www.janchipchase.com/

Joel on Software, Joel Spolsky
Software developer (formerly with Microsoft), author
Blog
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
On writing content, the book Best Software Writing.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BestSoftwareWriting.html

Web Style Guide
http://webstyleguide.com/

Donald Norman’s Site
http://www.jnd.org/
Dr. Norman former VP of research at Apple Computer is credited with creating the field of usability. He recommends the following books

Handbook of human factors and ergonomics Gavriel Salvendy 2005: Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Universal Principles of Design. William Lidwell, Kritina Holden & Jill Butler 2003: Gloucester, MA: Rockport Publishers.

Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A HANDBOOK FOR ART STUDENTS (Paperback) by James Elkins "Is there anything worth knowing about art schools in past centuries?..."

http://www.informationdesign.org/archives/2006_06.php

http://www.uxnet.org/