A well-rounded book list for Designers, Design Leaders & Product Managers
Here’s a list of book recommendations for people who contribute to the creation of digital products and/or services.
It spans topics from user research to design to psychology and business and innovation — covering a broad spectrum that I feel can make any design practitioner, design leader or product manager more well-rounded in today’s landscape.
The Book List
“The Design of Everyday things” — Don Norman
“Just Enough Research” — Erika Hall
“The Elements of User Experience” — Jesse James Garrett
“Articulating Design Decisions” — Tom Greever
“The Best Interface is No Interface” — Golden Krishna
“Don’t Make Me Think” Steve Krug
“Design Leadership: How Top Design leaders Build & Grow Successful Organizations” — Richard Banfield
“Emotional Design” Don Norman
“Designing For Emotion” — Aarron Walter
“Sprint” — Jake Knapp
“Mobile First” — Luke Wroblewski
“Content Strategy for Mobile” — Karen McGrane
“Org Design for Design Orgs” — Kristin Skinner and Peter Merholz
“UX Strategy” — Jaime Levy
“Lean UX” — Jeff Gothelf
“UX for Lean Startups” — Klein
“Lean Analytics” — Alistair Croll
“Universal Principles of Design” — William Lidwell
“Observing the User Experience” — Goodman, Kuniavsky, Moed
“User Experience Management” —Arnie Lund
“Heads First: HTML with CSS and XHTML” — Freeman & Freeman
“Lean Enterprise” — Jez Humble
“A project guide to UX Design” — Unger and Chandler
“Service Design” — Polaine, Lovile and Reason
“User Story Mapping” — Patton
“Designing Interfaces” — Tidwell (The one with the duck on the cover)
“100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People” — Susan Weinschenk
“The Inmates are running the asylum” — Alan Cooper
“Envisioning Information” — Edward Tufte
“Inspired” — Marty Cagan
“The Lean Product Playbook” — Dan Olsen
“The Innovator’s Solution” — Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor
“Hooked” — Nir Eyal
“Creativity Inc” — Edwin Catmull
“Change By Design” — Tim Brown
“Mindset” — Carol Dweck
“Blink” — Malcolm Gladwell
“A More Beautiful Question” — Warren Berger
“The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less” — Barry Schwartz
“Flow: The psychology of optimal experience” — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“How to Win Friends and Influence People” — Dale Carnegie
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Have other books that you’d add to this list or recommend? Leave them in the comments!
