My reading list
I’m often asked to recommend good UX books to friends and colleagues, so I keep my UX book list online to share with others.
- Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Steve Krug
- The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide, Leah Buley
- 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People, Susan Weinschenk
- Click! Encourage Clicks Without Shady Tricks, Paul Boag
- The elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond, Jesse James Garrett
- The Inmates are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity, Alan Cooper
- The Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman
- Designing for Emotion, Aarron Walter
- Rocket Surgery Made Easy: the Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems, Steve Krug
- 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
- User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product, Jeff Patton
- Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams (3th edition), Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden
- About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Alan Cooper, Robert Reinmann, David Cronin, Christopher Noessel
- Design Systems Handbook, Marco Suarez, Jina Anne, Katie Sylor-Miller, Diana Mounter, Roy Stanfield
- Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond, Rosenfield, Morville, Arango
- Universal Principles of Design, Lidwell, Holden and Butler
- Wireframing Essentials: An introduction to user experience design, Matthew J. Hamm
- Universal methods of design, Bella Martin, Bruce Hanington
- Microinteractions: Designing with Details, Dan Saffer
- Simple and usable web, mobile and interaction design, Giles Colborne
- Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories, Donna Spencer
- Presenting Design Work, Donna Spencer
- Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks, Luke Wroblewski
- A Practical Guide to Information Architecture, Donna Spencer
- Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research, Elizabeth Goodman, Mike Kuniavsky, Andrea Moed
- Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights, Steve Portigal
- UX Strategy: Product Strategy Techniques for Devising Innovative Digital Solutions, Jaime Levy
- Mapping Experiences: A Complete Guide to Creating Value through Journey’s, Blueprints & Diagrams, Jim Kalbach
- Quantifying the User Experience: Practical statstics for user research, Jeff Sauro, James Lewis
- Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days, Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz
- Just Enough Research, Erika Hall
- Top Tasks: A How-To Guide, Gerry McGovern
- Think Like a UX Researcher, David Travis, Philip Hodgson
- AI Ethics, Mark Coeckelbergh
- Usability Engineering, Jakob Nielsen
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
- Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting UX Metrics, Bill Albert, Tom Tullis
- Good Services: How to Design Services that Work, Lou Downe
- Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior, Indi Young
- Business Thinking for Designers, Ryan Rumsey
- Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, Robert M. Sapolsky
- The Great Mental Models (Vol. 1, 2 and 3), Farnam Street
- How Design Makes The World, Scott Berkun
- The Digital Experience Company: Winning in the Digital Economy with Great Design, Alfonso de la Nuez
- Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries: User Research War Stories, Steve Portigal
- Interaction Design for Complex Problem Solving, Barbara Mirel
- Time to Listen: How Giving People Space to Speak Drives Invention and Inclusion, Indi Young
- The Product Design Process Handbook, Francisco Inchauste, Evan Ames
- UX Portfolio Workbook, Ian Fenn
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, Nir Eyal
- Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows, Diana Wright
- Discussing Design: Improving Communication and Collaboration through Critique, Adam Connor, Aaron Irizarry
- Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered, Don Norman
- Designing for Sustainability, Tim Frick