📚 Books

List of books useful to those working in the areas of Product Design & UX. Listings take the format of;

📘 Book Title - Author
🌐 Book website
🛒 Amazon (UK) affiliate link
📷 Book cover image

Recommended Books

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Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another - Philip Ball
🛒 http://amzn.to/2gH43jZ

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Design For Real Life - Eric Meyer, Sara Wachter-Boettcher
🌐 https://abookapart.com/products/design-for-real-life
🛒 http://a.co/540Lav3

Design Systems - Alla Kholmatova
🌐 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/design-systems-book/
🛒 http://amzn.to/2iOfdY3

Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited - Steve Krug
🌐 https://www.sensible.com/dmmt.html
🛒 http://amzn.to/2gea86G

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B. Cialdini
🌐 https://www.influenceatwork.com/principles-of-persuasion/
🛒 http://amzn.to/2yrlRta

Information Architecture, For the Web and Beyond - Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld, Jorge Arango
🌐 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034674.do
🛒 http://amzn.to/2hu3RoK

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Lean UX - Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seden
🌐 http://www.leanuxbook.com/
🛒 http://amzn.to/2yt7ZPa

P

Politics and the English Language - George Orwell
🛒 http://amzn.to/2kT2iVr

R

Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems - Steve Krug
🌐 http://www.sensible.com/rsme.html
🛒 http://amzn.to/2xKcFRu

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Sense and Respond: How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously - Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seden
🌐 http://senseandrespond.co/
🛒 http://amzn.to/2hrtiae

Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design - Bill Buxton
🌐 https://www.elsevier.com/books/sketching-user-experiences-getting-the-design-right-and-the-right-design/buxton/978-0-12-374037-3
🌐 Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook - http://sketchbook.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/
🛒 http://amzn.to/2iiKzFX

Sprint: How To Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days - Jake Knapp with John Zeratsky & Braden Kowitz
🌐 https://www.thesprintbook.com/
🛒 http://amzn.to/2gdiADf

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The Design of Everyday Things, revised and expanded edition - Donald A. Norman
🛒 http://amzn.to/2gHgLzc

The Elements of Typographic Style: Version 4.0 - Robert Bringhurst
🛒 http://amzn.to/2xEh8RF

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
🛒 http://amzn.to/2xL0K5I

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Web Typography: A handbook for designing beautiful and effective typography in responsive websites - Richard Rutter
🌐 http://book.webtypography.net/
🌐 http://webtypography.net/
🛒 http://amzn.to/2z5uo5c

Other Book Lists

Collecting together useful lists collated by others.

🌐 http://www.nickfinck.com/blog/entry/nicks_top_user_experience_books_for_2014/
🌐 https://medium.com/interactive-mind/the-only-ux-reading-list-ever-d420edb3f4ff
🌐 https://www.billbuxton.com/bill_buxton_design_library.html
🌐 https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/202195-user-experience-design-slack
🌐 http://www.vandelaydesign.com/best-typography-books/
🌐 https://designerhangout.co/books 🌐 https://uxuncensored.medium.com/darren-hoods-ux-research-uxr-book-recommendation-list-cdd2f5f5533e 🌐 https://www.notion.so/Design-Books-by-Womxn-People-of-Color-efaffa5233cc44a8b3bebb2d0a2b038f