Ok so the title should basically describe what I am wondering here.
A little background: I have been a hacker of some sort since the age of 12 when I taught myself C reading a few books (Im now 23). I generally retain information I read pretty well and find myself with an impressive collection of books on a multitude of programming languages, however as someone who is very technical, I often find that I have VERY little creativity.
Ultimately I would like to become better at UI/UX design, So I am looking for suggestions on some good books that could help me with my lack of creativity and give me some insight into how to PROPERLY design a UI for my user base instead of continuing to use un-original ideas or depend on other (often undependable) programmers.
I'd suggest starting out with "The Non-Designer's Design Book," which explains the basics of putting elements on a page or screen together in a tasteful way; "The Humane Interface," which explains testing and measuring for efficiency and why dialog boxes are often bad and so on and so forth; and "Designing for Interaction," which is often cited as a good overview of the practice of interaction design, and I just flipped through it and it seems to be, although I haven't read it.
After those three, you could probably throw a dart at this list: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=114778998560307&to...