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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 (2)

Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning by Daniel M. Brown
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper

Design Elements (7)

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
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 (5)

Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design by Robert Hoekman
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
Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data by Stephen Few
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

IA (2)
Cooper Case Studies
Information Architecture Institute Library