Best of Reading resources for UX Designers.md

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My Top Ten

1. The Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman
2. About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Alan Cooper
3. The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond, Jesse James Garrett
4. The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide, Leah Buley
5. Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind, Jocelyn K. Glei, 99u
6. A Practical Guide to Information Architecture, Donna Spencer
7. Designing Together: The collaboration and conflict management handbook for creative professionals, Dan M. Brown
8. Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences, Stephen Anderson
9. 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People, Susan Weinschenk
10. Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience, Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden

More Must-Reads On Thinking, Methods, Principles and Best Practices

I find it helpful to choose what to read based on what's relevant at the time. Applying what you're reading, as you're thinking and making is a great way to solidify concepts, reflect and learn.

Some old, some new. All important reading, in no particular order.

Last updated 09/10/2017

• The Shape of Design, Frank Chimero
• Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior, Indi Young
• Practical Empathy: For Collaboration and Creativity in Your Work, Indi Young
• Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights, Steve Portigal
• Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions, Bill Scott, Theresa Neil
• The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life), John Maeda
• Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing for the Web and Beyond, Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld, Jorge Arango
• Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook, Saul Greenberg, Sheelagh Carpendale , Nicolai Marquardt, Bill Buxton
• Well Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love, Jon Kolko
• Thoughts on Interaction Design, Jon Kolko
• Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, Seth Godin
• Don't Make Me Think AND Rocket Surgery Made Easy, Steve Krug
• Designing Interfaces, Jennifer Tidwell
• Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests, Jeffrey Rubin, Dana Chisnell
• Designing Interactions, Bill Moggridge
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information AND Envisioning Information, Edward R. Tufte
• A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making, Russ Unger & Carolyn Chandler
• Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers, Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo
• The Mobile Frontier: A Guide for Designing Mobile Experiences, Rachel Hinman
• Design Is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable, Nathan Shedroff
• Prototyping: A Practitioner's Guide, Todd Zaki Warfel
• Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences, Steve Diller, Nathan Shedroff, Darrel Rhea
• Content Strategy for the Web, by Kristina Halvorson, Melissa Rach
• Just Enough Research, Erika Hall
• Design Is A Job, Mike Monteiro
• Designing for Emotion, Aaron Walter
• Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills, David Sherwin
• Letting Go of The Words: Writing Web Content that Works, Janice (Ginny) Redish
• Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design, Robert Hoekman Jr
• Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action, Robert Hoekman Jr
• Designing for the Social Web, Joshua Porter
• Undercover User Experience Design, Cennydd Bowles, James Box
• Product Design for the Web: Principles of Designing and Releasing Web Products, Randy Hunt
• Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, by Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Maxine Cohen, Steven Jacobs
• This is Service Design Thinking: Basics, Tools, Cases, Marc Stickdorn, Jakob Schneider
• Resonate: Present Visual Stories That Transform Audiences, Nancy Duarte
• Metaskills: 5 Talents for the Robotic Age, Marty Neumeier
• The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design, Marty Neumeier
• Getting Real AND Rework, 37 Signals, Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
• The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems, Jef Raskin
• Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design, Giles Colborne
• Search Patterns: Design for Discovery, Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender
• Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things, Don Norman
• Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click? Susan Weinschenk
• Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services, Kim Goodwin
• A Web For Everyone, Sarah Horton, Whitney Quesenbery
• How to Make Sense of Any Mess, Abby Covert
• Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results, Christina Wodtke
• Org Design for Design Orgs: Building and Managing In-House Design Teams, Peter Merholz, Kristin Skinner
• Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning, Dan M. Brown
• Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World, Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, Brandon Schauer, David Verba
• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, Nir Eyal
• The 46 Rules of Genius: An Innovator's Guide to Creativity, Marty Neumeier
• Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days, Braden Kowitz, Jake Knapp, and John Zeratsky
• Designing with Data: Improving the User Experience with A/B Testing, Rochelle King, Elizabeth F Churchill, Caitlin Tan
• Banish Your Inner Critic: Silence the Voice of Self-Doubt to Unleash Your Creativity and Do Your Best Work, Denise Jacobs
• Design for Real Life, Eric Meyer & Sara Wachter-Boettcher
• Designing Interface Animation: Meaningful Motion for User Experience, Val Head
• Practical Design Discovery, Dan Brown
• On Web Typography, By Jason Santa Maria
• Designing Voice User Interfaces: Principles of Conversational Experiences, Cathy Pearl
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Donella H. Meadows
• Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All, Tom Kelley, David Kelley

More Useful Reading

Reading books is only a partial source of my inspiration and learning. I also frequently read blogs and articles. I highly recommend staying connected to these sources of great thought leadership:

• Eleganthack, Christina Wodtke
• Peter Merholz
• The Year of the Looking Glass, Julie Zhuo
• Bokardo, Joshua Porter
• Information Architects, Oliver Reichenstein
• Felt Presence, Ryan Singer
• Whitney Hess
• Disambiguity, Leisa Reichelt
• Form and Function, Luke Wroblewski
• Frank Chimero
• Aral Balkan
• David Cole
• Seth Godin
• Scott Berkun
• Intercom
• Google Ventures Design Library
• Adaptive Path
• Boxes and Arrows
• UXmatters
• UIE Brainsparks
• UX Magazine
• UX Booth
• A List Apart
• Smashing Magazine
• Signal vs. Noise, Basecamp
• 52 Weeks of UX
• Interaction Design Foundation Library of Resources