Ask Slashdot: Good, Relevant Usability Book?

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 6, 2011 @08:15AM from the how-does-this-fitt? dept.

First time accepted submitter osman84 writes "I've been developing web/mobile apps for some time, and have managed to build up some decent experience about usability. However, as I'm growing a team of developers now, I've noticed that most of the young ones have a very poor sense of usability. Unfortunately, since I was never really taught usability as science, I'm having trouble teaching them to develop usable apps. Are there any good books that make a good read for general usability guidelines for web/mobile apps? I have a couple from my college days, but I'd like something more recent, written in the era of mobile apps, etc."

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6 pack design by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-06 08:25 · Score: 2, Funny

(warning, I have a migraine so this isn't meant to sound lucid)
-drink a 6 pack of beers
-see if whatever you've designed up still makes sense to you
-write down your impressions (or just record them)
-sober up
-make appropriate changes
-rinse, repeat