Are you a UX practitioner? Are you ready to deepen your knowledge? Here’s a list of books to inspire you to branch out and read something outside your usual comfort zone. Some classics, some new titles, all worth reading!
UX books
The Design of Everyday Things Don Norman <– a classic
Designing Multi-Device Experiences, Michal Levin <– new and good
Design for the digital age, Goodwin <– the Cooper method, explained
A project guide to UX design, Unger, Chandler <– putting it all together with projects and teams
UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want, Jaime Levy
The “Lean” Series
The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
Lean UX, Gothelf & Seiden
UX for Lean Startups: Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design, Laura Klein
Running Lean, Ash Maurya
Lean Analytics, Yoskovitz & Kroll
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development, Cooper and Vlaskovitz
Lean Enterprise, Jez Humble
Classic business books
The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayon Christensen
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, Chip Heath
Crossing the Chasm, Geoffery Moore
Design Systems & Typography
Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty David Kadavy
Design for Software: A Playbook for Developers Erik Klimczak
Sketching
Sketching User Experiences – The Workbook <– much better than the book “Sketching User Experiences” which I don’t recommend
Unfolding the Napkin Dan Roam
Sketchnote Workbook Mike Rohde the book Sketchnote Handbook is also excellent.
Product management
Inspired: How to create products customers love, Marty Cagan
Web development
Responsive Web Design, Ethan Marcotte
Atomic Design, Brad Frost
Designing with Web Standards, Jeffrey Zeldman
Agile and Lean
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Kent Beck
The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions, Mary & Tom Poppendieck
Get Agile: Scrum for UX, Design & Development, Jongerius et al.
The Principles of Product Development Flow, Donald Reinertsen
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