Books recommended by the staff :
Design Research: Methods and Perspectives by Brenda Laurel - particularly the bodystorming and informance chapters
Making Things Talk by Tom Igoe - Designing digital/physical devices
Designing Interactions, by Bill Moggridge - The history of interaction design, with an interview CD
Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton - Design thinking in sketching and prototyping
Some valuable articles:
"Heuristics for User Interface Design" by Jakob Nielsen
"How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation" by Jakob Nielsen
"Interview with Bill Verplank" by Bill Moggridge
"Wizard of Oz Studies - Why and How" by Dahlback, Jonsson and Ahrenberg
"Animator vs. Animation" by Alan Becker
"Windows Mobile 7 To Focus On Touch and Motion Gestures" Inside Microsoft Blog
"Take it to the next stage: the roles of role playing in the design process" by Kristian Simsarian
"What do prototypes prototype?" by Stephanie Houde and Charles Hill
"Heuristic Evaluation" by Jakob Nielsen
"Tangible Bits" by Hiroshi Ishii and Brygg Ullmer
"Design of the Conceptual Model" interview with David Liddle
Please feel free to e-mail us at cs247@cs.stanford.edu if you have any questions.