The Golden Books Of UX Design

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This comprehensive books list will help you better understand UX Design

If you’re looking to up your game in UX, user research, usability, information architecture, user interface design, interaction design, content strategy, or experience strategy, you’re in luck!

There’s a fantastic collection of reading materials out there that you will want to take advantage of.

This books collection offers extensive resources that can help you enhance your expertise and talents in these areas.

So, don’t miss this opportunity to expand your knowledge and skill set with these books.

It offers a diverse selection of books that deeply delve into design thinking, methodologies, techniques, core principles, and industry standards. By perusing this comprehensive list, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of these topics and glean invaluable insights and knowledge that will significantly benefit you in your career.

Various books delve into design thinking, methodologies, techniques, core principles, and industry standards.

The Golden Books (evergreen)

The Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman
About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Alan Cooper
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond, Jesse James Garrett
The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide, Leah Buley
Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind, Jocelyn K. Glei, 99u
A Practical Guide to Information Architecture, Donna Spencer
Designing Together: The collaboration and conflict management handbook for creative professionals, Dan M. Brown
Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences, Stephen Anderson
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People, Susan Weinschenk
Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience, Jeff Gothelf, and Josh Seiden

More Must-Reads On Thinking, Methods, Principles, and Best Practices

The Shape of Design, Frank Chimero
Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior, Indi Young
Practical Empathy: For Collaboration and Creativity in Your Work, Indi Young
Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights, Steve
Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions, Bill Scott, Theresa Neil
The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life), John Maeda
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing for the Web and Beyond, Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld, Jorge Arango
Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook, Saul Greenberg, Sheelagh Carpendale, Nicolai Marquardt, Bill Buxton
Well Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love, Jon Kolko
Thoughts on Interaction Design, Jon Kolko
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? Seth Godin
Don’t Make Me Think AND Rocket Surgery Made Easy, Steve Krug
Designing Interfaces, Jennifer Tidwell
Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests, Jeffrey Rubin, Dana Chisnell
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information AND Envisioning Information, Edward R. Tufte
A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making, Russ Unger & Carolyn Chandler
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers, Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo
The Mobile Frontier: A Guide for Designing Mobile Experiences, Rachel Hinman
Design Is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable, Nathan Shedroff
Prototyping: A Practitioner’s Guide, Todd Zaki Warfel
Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences, Steve Diller, Nathan Shedroff, Darrel Rhea
Content Strategy for the Web, by Kristina Halvorson, Melissa Rach
Just Enough Research, Erika Hall
Design Is A Job, Mike Monteiro
Designing for Emotion, Aaron Walter
Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills, David Sherwin
Letting Go of The Words: Writing Web Content that Works, Janice (Ginny) Redish
Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design, Robert Hoekman Jr
Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action, Robert Hoekman Jr
Designing for the Social Web, Joshua Porter
Undercover User Experience Design, Cennydd Bowles, James Box
Product Design for the Web: Principles of Designing and Releasing Web Products, Randy Hunt
Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, by Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Maxine Cohen, Steven Jacobs
This is Service Design Thinking: Basics, Tools, Cases, Marc Stickdorn, Jakob Schneider
Resonate: Present Visual Stories That Transform Audiences, Nancy Duarte
Metaskills: 5 Talents for the Robotic Age, Marty Neumeier
The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design, Marty Neumeier
Getting Real AND Rework, 37 Signals, Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems, Jef Raskin
Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design, Giles Colborne
Search Patterns: Design for Discovery, Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things, Don Norman
Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click? Susan Weinschenk
Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services, Kim Goodwin
A Web For Everyone, Sarah Horton, Whitney Quesenbery
Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results, Christina Wodtke
Org Design for Design Orgs: Building and Managing In-House Design Teams, Peter Merholz, Kristin Skinner
Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning, Dan M. Brown
Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World, Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, Brandon Schauer, David Verba
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, Nir Eyal
The 46 Rules of Genius: An Innovator’s Guide to Creativity, Marty Neumeier
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days, Braden Kowitz, Jake Knapp, and John Zeratsky
Designing with Data: Improving the User Experience with A/B Testing, Rochelle King, Elizabeth F Churchill, Caitlin Tan
Banish Your Inner Critic: Silence the Voice of Self-Doubt to Unleash Your Creativity and Do Your Best Work, Denise Jacobs
Design for Real Life, Eric Meyer & Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Practical Design Discovery, Dan Brown
On Web Typography, By Jason Santa Maria
Designing Voice User Interfaces: Principles of Conversational Experiences, Cathy Pearl
Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Donella H. Meadows