The selection of books that are useful to read to become a better UX and HMI designer.

Books for UX amateurs

• Jef Raskin. The Humane Interface
• Steve Krug. Don’t make me think
• Jesse James Garrett. The Elements of User Experience
• Jenifer Tidwell. Designing Interfaces
• Don Norman. The Design of Everyday Things

Human Factors and Ergonomics

• Mica Endsley et al. Designing for situation awareness
• David D. Woods et al. Behind Human Error

HF&E books, related to specific subject domains

• John A. Wise, V. David Hopkin, Daniel J. Garland. Handbook of Aviation Human Factors
• Bill R. Hollifield, Dana Oliver, Eddie Habibi, and Ian Nimmo. The High Performance HMI Handbook
• Antonio Di Lieto. Bridge Resource Management: From the Costa Concordia to Navigation in the Digital Age

Systems and IT analysis

• Karl Wiegers. Software requirements

Information visualization

• Edward Tufte. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
• Edward Tufte.  Envisioning Information

Visual design

• Josef Müller-Brockmann. Grid Systems in Graphic Design
• Robert Bringhurst. The Elements of Typographic Style

Out-of-topic, but useful books

• Victor Papanek. Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change.