Top 6 Books For Product Designers

Ruslan Galba
@hellotegra
Published in
3 min readMay 15, 2020

My Top Books For Product Designers 📚

Courtesy of @jeliazkovdsgn

I know that reading a book might not be your top priority, but reading this list is a must for every product designer ☝

1️⃣Creative Confidence — by Dave & Tom Kelly

2️⃣Made to Stick — by Chip and Dan Heath

3️⃣Don’t Make Me Think — by Steve Krug

4️⃣Hacking Growth — by Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown

5️⃣The Design of Everyday Things — by Don Norman

6️⃣The Lean Startup — by Eric Ries

I am currently reading Thinking Fast and Slow and absolutely love it.

It’s an outstandingly clear and precise study of the ‘dual-process’ model of the brain and our embedded self-delusions.

Creative confidence

A powerful and inspiring book from the founders of IDEO, the award-winning design firm, on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us.

Made to stick

Why do disproved urban legends persist? How do you keep letting newspapers and clickbait sites lure you in with their headlines? And why do you remember complicated stories but not complicated facts?

Don’t make me think

Hundreds of thousands of Web designers and developers have relied on usability guru Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design.

Hacking growth

Think of the Growth Hacking methodology as doing for market-share growth what Lean Start-Up did for product development, and Scrum did for productivity.

The design of everyday things

Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door.

The lean startup

Ries developed the idea for the lean startup from his experiences as a startup advisor, employee, and founder.

Bonus — tools that may be useful in your designer way:

Webflow — all-in-one web design tool that allows users to design, build, and launch responsive websites visually.
Crello — the simplest online image editor. A simple but powerful tool to create awesome designs for any social media format — posts, covers, graphics, and posters using the best software on the web. It’s easy! A lot of animated designs.
Designmodo — a timesaving tool that helps create websites and email builders designed for developers, designers, marketers, and non-tech users.
LPgenerator — professional landing page platform for your business to generate new leads and increase sales.
Flowkit — allows designers to create frighteningly fast user flows within Sketch and Figma.
Leadpages — lets you build beautiful, high-converting websites, unlimited landing pages, pop-up forms you can add to your other websites.

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Ruslan Galba
@hellotegra

Increasing revenue for DTC brands via Facebook / Google ads 🚀Growth Strategist 🤘 Founder @hellotegra growth team 🤖 $5M+ profitable ad spend in 2020