Recommended books for enterprise application interface design

Question

I've been reading a lot on UX lately with the intention of improving the user experience on the custom applications we develop. Most of the resources I used are targeting informational websites. I would like suggestions on resources that I can use that target enterprise & portal applications.

Answer 1

I'd say one of the better ones for application design is About Face 3. A lot of it spends time on interaction design for desktop apps, as opposed to the web (at least in version 2). You can't go wrong with Alan Cooper's work.

Answer 2

That's interesting, as actually I find the large portion of UX books I read to be heavily slanted to applications.

Here are a couple can't-miss titles:

Designing for the Social Web, by Joshua Porter http://t.co/89yf8eb

Seductive Interaction Design, by Stephen Anderson http://t.co/TQmZFJk

Designing the Obvious, by Robert Hoekman http://t.co/coMCuIM

Answer 3

Not a book but yearly reports of Nielsen Norman Group for intranets would help alot.

http://www.nngroup.com

Answer 4

Some books on specific topics that apply to enterprise aplications are the following:

• Form design:
  • Web Form design: filling in the blanks by Luke Wroblewski.
  • Forms that work by Caroline Jarrett.
• Search analytics:
  • Search Analytics for Your Site by Louis Rosenfeld.