HCI resources

People

• Donald Norman - check out his essays, they offer a lot of interesting ideas
• Edward Tufte - an expert in data visualization
• Bruce Tognazzini
• Jakob Nielsen
• Aza Raskin

Books

• The design of everyday things by Donald Norman

Sites

Design patterns

• http://quince.infragistics.com/UX-Design-Patterns.aspx
• http://www.welie.com/patterns
• http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns

Discussions

• http://ux.stackexchange.com
• http://www.interaction-design.org