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blink design library by Blink Interactive
UI Patterns by Anders Toxboe

Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
Search Patterns by Peter Morville

Methods & Design Process (3)

Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning by Daniel M. Brown
Game Design Workshop, Second Edition: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games (Gama Network Series) by Tracy Fullerton
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper

Design Elements (8)

Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become by Peter Morville
Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design by Jenifer Tidwell
Designing for Small Screens (Advanced Level) by Carola Zwick, Burkhard Schmitz
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability by Luke Wroblewski
The Big Red Fez: How To Make Any Web Site Better by Seth Godin

General Aspects (8)

Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design by Robert Hoekman
Designing Visual Language: Strategies for Professional Communicators (Part of the Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication) by Charles Kostelnick, David D. Roberts, Sam Dragga
Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Kru
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville
Graph Design for the Eye and Mind by Stephen M. Kosslyn
Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data by Stephen Few
Information Visualization, Second Edition: Perception for Design (Interactive Technologies) by Colin Ware
Killer Web Content: Make the Sale, Deliver the Service, Build the Brand by Gerry McGovern

Humor (2)

Shaping Things (Mediaworks Pamphlets) by Bruce Sterling
Why We Buy: The Science Of Shopping by Paco Underhill

UI (2)

useit.com: Jakob Nielsen’s Website
UIE.com: User Interface Engineering
Usability.gov

IA (2)
Cooper Case Studies
Information Architecture Institute Library