Resources
Books for UX designers
A reading list for UX designers, grouped by topic.
Cognitive Psychology
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
Creative Thinking
- Gamestorming
Creativity & Leadership
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Design Communication
- Articulating Design Decisions
- Communicating Design
Design Principles
- Design of Everyday Things
Design Psychology
- 100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People
- Emotional Design
Design Research
- Universal Methods of Design
Design Sprint
- Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
Design Thinking
- Change by Design
Ethnography
- Practical Ethnography
Game Design
- The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses
Information Architecture
- Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond
- Intertwingled
Interaction Design
- About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design
- Designing for Interaction
- Humane Interface
- Seductive Interaction Design
Leadership
- Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Lean Methods
- Lean Startup
Lean UX
- Lean UX
Product Design
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
User Research
- Observing the User Experience
UX Metrics
- Measuring the User Experience
UX Process
- A Project Guide to UX Design
- The Elements of User Experience
- The User Experience Team of One
- The UX Book
UX Research
- Card sorting
- Interviewing Users
- Listen Like You Mean It
- Mapping Experience
- Practical Data Dictionary
- Predictably Irrational
- Quantifying the user experience: practical statistics for user research
- The Mom Test
- Think Like a UX Researcher
UX Strategy
- Mental Models
- UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products
Web Usability
- Don't Make Me Think!
More reading
- Designing for the digital age
- Just Enough Research
- The moderator’s survival guide
- Thinking, Fast and slow
- This is service design doing
- User Story Mapping