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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein. (1977)
This book offers a practical language for building and planning based on natural considerations. By understanding recurrent design problems in our environment, readers can identify extant patterns in their own design projects and use these patterns to create a language of their own.

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams. Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister. 2nd ed. (1999)
The authors demonstrate that the major issues of software development are human, not technical -- and that managers ignore them at their peril. The advice is presented straightforwardly and ranges from simple issues of prioritization to complex ways of engendering harmony and productivity in your team.

Peterme.com. Peter Merholz.
This site began as a series of self-published essays: "Stating The Obvious." This evolved (or devolved) towards link lists and shorter thoughtpieces. Topics for discussion range from information architecture and web design to current events.

Practical Information Architecture: A Hands-on Approach to Structuring Successful Websites. Eric L. Reiss. (2000)
A concise, step-by-step guide through the information architecture process, from defining goals to fine-tuning the site.

Practical Taxonomies. Sarah L. Roberts-Witt. From: Knowledge Management. 47-54 (January 1999)
This article provides advice for building a knowledge classification system that categorizes all the information the organization chooses to track in a logical manner so that it can be reliably accessed by anyone in the organization.

The Practice of Social Research. Earl Babbie. 9th ed. (2000)
This book includes content that emphasizes the importance of problem-solving and decision-making, the links between statistics and research methods, and the use of computers in social research. It includes current research examples and illustrations from such recent topics as welfare and poverty, gender issues, affirmative action, and the AIDS epidemic.

Profile of an InfoDesigner/InfoArchitect.
This page lists the skill set of information designers and information architects -- those who are responsible for planning the structure of a product at the macro and micro level.

Progress in Documentation: Pictorial Information Retrieval. P.G.B. Enser. From: Journal of Documentation. 51:2, 126-70 (June 1995)
This paper discusses the ease of record creation and transmission in the visual medium contrasted with the difficulty of gaining effective subject access to the world's store of such records.

Prototyping for Tiny Fingers. Marc Rettig. From: Communications of the ACM. 37:4, 21-27 (April 1994)
This paper discusses low-fidelity prototyping -- building prototypes on paper and testing them with real users.