Top UX & Design Books
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Top UX & Design Books
At my last job, I started a UX book club to help my company better understand why UX is important. As the book club progressed, I started to collect data on the overall value it brought to not just our UX team, but the company as a whole. People started to understand UX better and often think about things more critically before asking questions or giving feedback on designs or features. The team recived more respect from the development team and from stakeholders. We also were brought into more discussions because the teams had an understanding of what was a UX issue and what was just a simple fix.
I wrote an article about the benefits here. (coming soon)
Before creating the book club, I came up with a list of books that I found value in and had been recommended to me by other designers. We started with ‘The Design of Everyday Things,” Which really appealed to our engineers. After we finished a book, the UX team members would each pick a book and put them up for a vote with the whole book club. There would ususally be 3–5 books to pick from. This cycle continued for about two years.
Unfortunately, the company I was at was acquired, and I decided it was in my best interest to leave. Before I did, I posted this list in our UX book club slack channel for the rest of my colleagues to continue on their own time.
Here is the list of the books we read and were planning to read. You can also find quick links to buy these books on Amazon here.
Rocket surgery made easy — Steve Krug
A companion to his book “ Don’t Make Me Think” takes a deeper dive into usability testing.
169 pages
$10 — $17
Don’t Make Me Think — Steve Krug
216 pages.
$17 — $30
The Design of Everyday Things — Don Norman
368 pages
$14.50
https://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Revised-Expanded/dp/0465050654/ref=asc_df_0465050654/?
Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights Kindle Edition — Steve Portugal
176 pages
$13 -$40
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration Kindle Edition — Ed Catmull
368 Pages
$9.99-$20
https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Inspiration-ebook/dp/B00GUOEMA4/ref=sr_1_1?
Lean UX: Applying lean principles to improve user experience — Jeff Gothelf
208 Pages
$15-$24
100<more Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People — Susan Waisack
292 pages
https://www.amazon.com/Things-Designer-People-Voices-Matter/dp/0134196031/ref=sr_1_2?
Emotional Design — Don Norman
272 pages
$12–30
https://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Design-Love-Everyday-Things/dp/0465051367/ref=sr_1_1?
The Best Interface is No Interface — Golden Krishna
256 pages
$13 — $21
https://www.amazon.com/Best-Interface-No-brilliant-technology/dp/0133890333/ref=sr_1_1?
Practical Empathy: For Collaboration and Creativity in Your Work Kindle Edition — Indi Young
200 pages
$13 — $40
Evil by Design: Interaction Design to Lead Us into Temptation 1st Edition — Chris Nodder
320 pages
$21 — $35
https://www.amazon.com/Evil-Design-Interaction-Lead-Temptation/dp/1118422147/ref=sr_1_1?
Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior Kindle Edition — Indi Young
299 pages
$18 — $75
The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience 1st Edition — Rex Hartson
968 pages
$23 — $79
https://www.amazon.com/UX-Book-Guidelines-Ensuring-Experience/dp/0123852412/ref=sr_1_1?
UI is Communication: How to Design Intuitive, User Centered Interfaces by Focusing on Effective Communication 1st Edition — Everett N Mckay
378 pages
$16-$40
https://www.amazon.com/UI-Communication-Intuitive-Interfaces-Effective/dp/0123969808/ref=sr_1_1?
Discussing Design: Improving Communication and Collaboration through Critique 1st Edition — Adam Connor
206 pages
$15-$21
272 pages
$15 — $17
https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Principles-Design-Revised-Updated/dp/1592535879/ref=sr_1_1?
It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be: The world’s best selling book Paperback— June 1, 2003 — Paul Arden
128 pages
https://www.amazon.com/Its-Not-How-Good-Want/dp/0714843377/ref=sr_1_1?
This is Service Design Thinking: Basics-Tools-Cases Kindle Edition — Jackob Schneider
380 pages
$16-$37
The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems — Jef Raskin
233 pages
$15-$47
https://www.amazon.com/Humane-Interface-Directions-Designing-Interactive/dp/0201379376/ref=sr_1_1?
Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences (Voices That Matter) 1st Edition — Stephen P. Anderson
240 pages
$18 — $23
https://www.amazon.com/Seductive-Interaction-Design-Effective-Experiences/dp/0321725522/ref=sr_1_1?
A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences Kindle Edition — Sarah Horton
288 pages
$13-$40
https://www.amazon.com/Web-Everyone-Designing-Accessible-Experiences-ebook/dp/B00HCREJZ6/ref=sr_1_1?
The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) Later prt. Edition — John Maeda
128 pages
$11-$15
https://www.amazon.com/Laws-Simplicity-Design-Technology-Business/dp/0262134721/ref=sr_1_1?
Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age 1st Edition — Paul Graham
271 pages
$6 — $40
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596006624/
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days — Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz
288 pages
$15 — $22
https://www.amazon.com/Sprint-Solve-Problems-Test-Ideas/dp/B019R2DQIY/
Badass: Making Users Awesome Paperback— February 23, 2015 — Kathy Sierra
249 pages
$22-$23
https://www.amazon.com/Badass-Making-Awesome-Kathy-Sierra/dp/1491919019/
About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design 4th Edition — Alan Cooper
720 pages
$27-$38
https://www.amazon.com/About-Face-Essentials-Interaction-Design/dp/1118766571/ref=sr_1_1?
Thinking Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
499 pages
$9-$24
https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555
The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide -
by Leah Buley
264 Pages
$13 — $40
https://www.amazon.com/User-Experience-Team-One-Research/dp/1933820187
Laying the Foundations — by Andrew Couldwell (Author), Meagan Fisher Couldwell (Editor)
268 pages
https://www.amazon.com/Laying-Foundations-about-design-systems/dp/0578540037
Design Systems — by Alla Kholmatova (Author), Smashing Magazine (Editor)
277 Pages
https://www.amazon.com/Design-Systems-Smashing-eBooks-Kholmatova-ebook/dp/B076H49W1G
OTHERS
Introduction to UX
- The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett
- Killer UX Design by Jodie Moule
- A Project Guide to UX Design by Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler
- Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain by Tom Stafford & Matt Webb
- Undercover User Experience Design by Cennydd Bowles & James Box
- UI Is Communication: How to Design Intuitive, User Centered Interfaces by Focusing on Effective Communication by Everett N. McKay
- Hooked by Nir Eyal
UX Careers
- Get Started in UX: the Complete Guide to Launching a Career in User Experience Design by Matthew Magain & Luke Chambers (ebook)
- Everyday UX by Luke Chambers & Matthew Magain (ebook)
Communicating UX
- Communicating the User Experience: A practical guide for creating useful UX documentation by Richard Caddick & Steve Cable
- Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning by Dan M. Brown
- The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web by Steve Mulder
- See What I Mean: How to use Comics to Communicate Ideas by Kevin Cheng
Usability
- The Usability Kit by Gerry Gaffney and Daniel Szuc
- Forms That Work by Caroline Jarrett and Gerry Gaffney
Information Architecture
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld
- A Practical Guide to Information Architecture by Donna Spencer
Interaction Design
- Designing for Interaction by Dan Saffer
- Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things by Don Norman
- Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
Visual Design
- The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams
- The Principles of Beautiful Web Design by Jason Beaird
- Sexy Web Design by Elliot Jay Stocks
- The Design of Sites (2nd Ed.) by Jason I. Hong
- The Elements of Typographic Style: Version 4.0: 20th Anniversary Edition Fourth Edition — Robert Bringhurst
Mobile
- Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps by Josh Clark
- Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski
- Content Strategy for Mobile by Karen McGrane
- Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte
Collaborative Design
- Gamestorming: A Playbook For Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown and James Macanufo
- Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton
- Sketching User Experiences (workbook) by Saul Greenberg, Sheelagh Carpendale, Nicolai Marquardt and Bill Buxton
- Lean UX by Jeff Gothelf
Communicating Ideas
- Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences by Nancy Duarte
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
- Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Web Analytics
- Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics by Brian Clifton
- Web Analytics: An Hour A Day by Avanash Kaushik
Sketching & Visual Thinking
- Sketchnotes 2011 by Eva-Lotta Lamm
- The Sketchnote Handbook by Mike Rohde
- The Doodle Revolution by Sunni Brown
- The Graphic Facilitator’s Guide by Brandy Agerbeck
- The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam
The Bigger Picture
- The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick
- The Shallows: How the Internet is changing the way we read, think and remember by Nicholas Carr
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
- Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus
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