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Hi, everyone; today, we’re checking out some of the best UX/UI design books about the latest design trends and things happening in the tech world, like AI, VR, AR, MR, etc., which will be super helpful.

Book №1

“The VR Book: Human-Centered Design for Virtual Reality” by Jason Jerald is a comprehensive guide to designing and developing virtual reality (VR) experiences centred around human needs and interactions.

The book covers various topics related to VR design, including human perception, user interface design, locomotion, haptic feedback, and social interaction. It emphasizes the importance of designing VR experiences that are comfortable, intuitive, and engaging for users and provides practical advice on how to achieve these goals.

One of the book’s key themes is the importance of user testing and iteration in VR design. Jerald encourages designers to test their prototypes early and often, using feedback from users to refine and improve their designs. He also provides guidance on how to conduct effective user testing sessions and how to analyze the results.

Overall, “The VR Book” is a valuable resource for anyone interested in designing VR experiences that prioritize human needs and interactions. Whether you are a designer, developer, or researcher, this book provides practical advice and insights to help you create compelling VR experiences.

Book №2

“Designing for Touch” by Josh Clark is a comprehensive guide to designing for touch-based interfaces, including mobile devices and tablets. The book covers the fundamental principles of touch-based design, including the challenges and opportunities of creating intuitive and engaging experiences.

The book starts with an overview of the touch-based design and the key principles of designing for mobile devices and tablets. It then covers topics such as touch gestures, interface layout, and mobile-first design. The book also includes case studies and examples of successful touch-based projects to illustrate the principles and best practices covered in the book.

The author emphasizes the importance of designing for the user’s needs and preferences and provides practical advice and tips for creating engaging and effective touch-based experiences.

Overall, “Designing for Touch” is an excellent resource for designers and developers looking to create effectively and engaging touch-based interfaces.

Book №3

“VR UX: Learn VR UX, Storytelling and Design” by Casey Fictum is a comprehensive guide to designing user experiences (UX) for virtual reality (VR) applications. The book covers various topics related to VR design, including user research, interaction design, storytelling, and prototyping.

Fictum provides practical advice on how to create intuitive and comfortable interactions and use storytelling to engage users and create memorable experiences.

The book also emphasizes the importance of understanding user needs and behaviors in the context of VR. Fictum provides guidance on how to conduct user research for VR applications, and how to use that research to inform design decisions.

Throughout the book, Fictum emphasizes the iterative nature of VR design, and encourages designers to test and refine their prototypes in collaboration with users. The book includes practical advice on how to conduct effective user testing sessions, as well as how to analyze and apply the results.

Overall, “VR UX” is a valuable resource for anyone interested in designing user experiences for virtual reality applications.

Book №4

So talking about relatively new books, UX design for startups is a kind of book that covers the essentials for how to create products for a new company, a new brand, or a new startup which is trying to create something from scratch. The subtitle of this book says Trial and Error, so these are tried and tested methods, principles that are formed by startup designers.

This has a total of six chapters, and you can read a little about each chapter from this website itself, and it seems to cover the basics or the base. It seems to cover certain techniques, specialized techniques that you can use to create workflows, how you can create a product that is able to help the company grow faster, to bring in new business, etc. So you’re basically covering everything for startups.

Now UX Spin is the website, and they’re famous for a lot of their other books as well. However, this new book will help you a lot; you only need to enter your email and download it in any format you like.

Book №5

So this next one was launched this year by Doug Collins, and the UX Design Field Book is one of the absolute best reminders that UX designers are not perfect. Now, as UX designers, we often forget terms, concepts, processes, and methods, but this book is a great revision. If you’re trying to revise on certain things, this book will really help you out.

So this book covers almost everything in the design process. Every little term, every little principle, every little thing that you need to remember daily. So if you’re trying to get a book that helps you keep pungent and which helps you strengthen your skills, this is the book to go for.

Now, Google Books has an entirely free preview for this so that you can read through the book, and if you want to get the complete book, you can get it on Amazon, Scribd, etc. You can search for it and get it; otherwise, I think the free 28 pages preview will give a good glimpse of what the book is all about and also give you a lot of knowledge.

Book №6

AI and UX is a perfect book for people who are thinking about how does UX design pertain to things like data science and artificial intelligence and all this cool new stuff we see these days. Now this book costs around $12 plus if you buy it off Amazon. However, O’Reilly, the famous book publisher has actually taken out a cool website or a cool platform where you can check out a lot of these books under a free trial or a subscription basis.

Now, the authors have focused on a bunch of topics here. Why do we even use UX? Or how do we even use UX with artificial intelligence? It also focuses on the technology of AI and how an experience differs from what we see in the back and what users get to see in the front, and also how companies are trying to make humans feel smarter with technology; so there’s a lot of human-computer interaction involved in AI. So reading this book will give you a very in-depth view of AI and UX of how can they work together now.

Book №7

Now, since we’re talking about trendy topics, UX for XR and for those who don’t know what XR is, XR is basically VR, AR or MR, so the X can be replaced by anything. Now, I really like this book because it includes case studies of actual AR, VR, and MR applications and how they maintain a good experience throughout the process, and they also talk about the job market. They also talk about what’s happening in the industry and around the industry when it comes to XR technologies.

So I’d say this book is efficient and knowledge-oriented, so I would highly recommend this one. If you have ten days on the trail, this is one of the books you should get, or you buy it and put it on your Kindle.

Book №8

Now, this next one is on Google Drive and its called 20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web from the actual people who created Google Chrome. Yes, you’re probably reading this article on your laptop on Google Chrome. So, people who worked on the design and tech of Google Chrome, the Google team has come up with this really cool little book that you can read through. Again, it’s just a bunch of pages, 64 pages. So a short book to read with a bunch of illustrations.

They also talk about how UX pertains to things like technologies, like cookies, and technologies that maintain the privacy of a user on a browser. Mentions a lot of things in this book with illustrative examples. Such things as diagrams are there, things like real-life examples of people typing in domains, etc., are there.

So if you’re looking at a great book that teaches you how they created a great product like Google Chrome. So, all in all, a book you can fall in love with this year, 20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web. It was hard to find this; it’s not on a lot of platforms, but here you guys go.

Book №9

Now give a lot of kudos to a lot of UX designers out there who are doing storytelling or using storytelling as their primary objective of a designer. I think it’s really cool perspective. This next book is awesome, which is UX Storytellers Connecting the Dots. This is a free e-book you can get today on Scribd.

This is not a book by 1 or 2 authors but by 10–15 authors. So designers from all over the world have come together to talk about UX storytelling. This book is very comprehensive, 500 plus pages of different designers all over the world talking about their experiences, and also you’ll be able to see a lot of case studies from companies, you know, because a lot of these designers are working with companies.

Some of these chapters are literally focusing on so many different aspects of UX that I highly appreciate it. Things like culture, the difference between culture can make a difference between the user experience or women in UX and how a woman UX designer succeeded. So a lot of different topics that you would have to find different books for, you found it here.

Book №10

Now when we talk about OG books, I’d say User Focus is a company which is an OG company already who has published a bunch of guides and books for user testing, design, user research, and things like that. Topics here are immense, things like accessibility, standards, mobile, forms, guidelines, etc. So you have something for everybody here. So you’ll be able to learn about how to do usability testing in an actual comic version.

Conclusion

So I hope these books can give you valuable insights and guidance to stay up-to-date with the latest UX/UI design trends.