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