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User experience is a gambit of various elements, and it takes a lot of efforts to get things right and working perfect as per the user’s need. Have you ever wondered what you should be doing if you are not having a formal education in Design. Well you should read some good books in design and try to relate and educate.

Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design by Jenifer Tidwell
ISBN: 978-0596008031

The best book i have ever read about User interface design. There are illustrative images of UI patterns and situations in which to use them.

In this book all about interactions are given.

Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
ISBN: 978-0961392116

The book has many colorful examples of good and bad data visualization with graphs, maps and charts. The book itself is beautifully printed and comfortable to read. Although it does not provide any examples on website design this book represents the basis of this science.

The Design of Sites. Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites by Douglas Van Duyne, James Landay, Jason Hong.
ISBN: 978-0131345553

Don’t Make Me Think. A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
ISBN: 978-0321344755

Prioritizing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger
ISBN: 978-0321350312

About Face 3. The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann and David CroninISBN: 978-0470084113