A list of books.
I don’t believe in a UX ‘bible’ or absolute must-read set of literature but below are a few of my favorites books that won’t steer you wrong.
The Design of Everyday Things — Don Norman
Elements of User Experience — Jesse James Garret
A Project Guide to UX — Russ Unger
Don’t Make Me Think — Steve Krug
Rocket Surgery Made Easy — Steve Krug
Communicating Design — Dan Brown
Observing the User Experience — Mike Kuniavsky
About Face — Alan Cooper
Experience Design: Technology for All the Right Reasons — Marc Hassenzahl
Sleights of Mind — Macknik, Blakeslee
Why We Fail — Victor Lombardi
GUI Bloopers 2.0: Common User Interface […] — Jeff Johnson
Designing from Both Sides of the Screen — Ellen Issacs
The Essential Persona Lifecycle — John Pruitt
Prototyping: A Practitioners Guide — Todd Warfel
Emotional Design — Don Norman
Living with Complexity — Don Norman
Paper Prototype: Fast Easy […] — Carolyn Snyder
Getting Real — 37 Signals
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know […] — Susan Weinschenk
Envisioning Information — Edward Tufte
Mental Models — Indi Young
Undercover User Experience — Cennydd Bowles
Mobile First — Luke Wroblewski
Experience Mapping — Adaptive Path
Getting to Thank You — Chris Finley
Ten Types of Innovation — Larry Keeley
Lean UX — Jeff Gothelf
Designing Interactions — Bill Moggridge
Designing for the Social Web — Joshua Porter
See What I Mean: Comics — Kevin Cheng
Seductive Interaction Design — Stephen Anderson
The Sketchnote Handbook — Mike Rohde
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion — R Cialdini
Interviewing Users — Steve Portigal
Make It So — Nathan Shedroft
Designing for Emotion — Aarron Walter
Design is a Job — Mike Monteiro
