Reading list

I keep my selected list of non-fiction books online to have an overview. Feel free to browse the list to get inspiration for your next book. I’m not part of any affiliate program, the links are there for ease of use.

UX

  1. Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Steve Krug
  2. The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide, Leah Buley
  3. 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People, Susan Weinschenk
  4. Click! Encourage Clicks Without Shady Tricks, Paul Boag
  5. The elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond, Jesse James Garrett
  6. The Inmates are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity, Alan Cooper
  7. The Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman
  8. Designing for Emotion, Aarron Walter
  9. Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things, Don Norman
  10. Rocket Surgery Made Easy: the Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems, Steve Krug
  11. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you, Rob Firzpatrick
  12. User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product, Jeff Patton
  13. Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams (3th edition), Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden
  14. About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Alan Cooper, Robert Reinmann, David Cronin, Christopher Noessel
  15. Creative Strategy and the Business of Design, Douglas Davis
  16. Design Systems Handbook, Marco Suarez, Jina Anne, Katie Sylor-Miller, Diana Mounter, Roy Stanfield
  17. Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond, Rosenfield, Morville, Arango
  18. Universal Principles of Design, Lidwell, Holden and Butler
  19. Wireframing Essentials: An introduction to user experience design, Matthew J. Hamm
  20. Universal methods of design, Bella Martin, Bruce Hanington
  21. Microinteractions: Designing with Details, Dan Saffer
  22. Simple and usable web, mobile and interaction design, Giles Colborne
  23. Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories, Donna Spencer
  24. Presenting Design Work, Donna Spencer
  25. Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks, Luke Wroblewski
  26. A Practical Guide to Information Architecture, Donna Spencer
  27. Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research, Elizabeth Goodman, Mike Kuniavsky, Andrea Moed
  28. Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights, Steve Portigal
  29. UX Strategy: Product Strategy Techniques for Devising Innovative Digital Solutions, Jaime Levy
  30. Mapping Experiences: A Complete Guide to Creating Value through Journey’s, Blueprints & Diagrams, Jim Kalbach
  31. Quantifying the User Experience: Practical statstics for user research, Jeff Sauro, James Lewis
  32. Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days, Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz
  33. Just Enough Research, Erika Hall
  34. Top Tasks: A How-To Guide, Gerry McGovern
  35. Think Like a UX Researcher, David Travis, Philip Hodgson
  36. Usability Engineering, Jakob Nielsen
  37. Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting UX Metrics, Bill Albert, Tom Tullis
  38. Good Services: How to Design Services that Work, Lou Downe
  39. Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior, Indi Young
  40. How Design Makes The World, Scott Berkun
  41. The Digital Experience Company: Winning in the Digital Economy with Great Design, Alfonso de la Nuez
  42. Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries: User Research War Stories, Steve Portigal
  43. Time to Listen: How Giving People Space to Speak Drives Invention and Inclusion, Indi Young
  44. The Product Design Process Handbook, Francisco Inchauste, Evan Ames
  45. UX Portfolio Workbook, Ian Fenn
  46. Interaction Design for Complex Problem Solving: Developing Useful and Usable Software, Barbara Mirel
  47. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, Nir Eyal
  48. Discussing Design: Improving Communication and Collaboration through Critique, Adam Connor, Aaron Irizarry
  49. Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered, Don Norman
  50. Designing for Sustainability, Tim Frick
  51. Conversational Design, Erika Hall
  52. Storytelling for User Experience, Whitney Quesenbery, Kevin Brooks
  53. The User’s Journey, Donna Lichaw
  54. Web Anatomy: Interaction Design Frameworks That Work, Robert Hoekman Jr., Jared Spool
  55. Continues Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value, Teresa Torres
  56. User Experience Revolution, Paul Boag

Psychology

  1. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, Robert M. Sapolsky
  2. The Great Mental Models (Vol. 1, 2 and 3), Farnam Street
  3. Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
  4. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, Daniel Kahneman
  5. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear
  6. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, Daniel Goleman
  7. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  8. Short Cuts: Psychology, Dr. Jennifer Wild
  9. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life, Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson

Technology & Business

  1. The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, Clayton M. Christensen
  2. This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See, Seth Godin
  3. AI Ethics, Mark Coeckelbergh
  4. The Offer You Can’t Refuse: What If Customers Want More Than Excellent Service?, StevenVan Belleghem
  5. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey
  6. Forever Employable: How to Stop Looking for Work and Let Your Next Job Find You, Jeff Gothelf
  7. The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
  8. Visual thinking: empowering people & organizations through visual collaboration, Willemien Brand
  9. Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows, Diana Wright
  10. Business Thinking for Designers, Ryan Rumsey
  11. TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking, Chris Anderson
  12. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Chip Heath, Dan Heath
  13. Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, Kim Scott
  14. Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution, Steven Sinofsky