Books I enjoyed reading
The Design of Everyday Things
- By Donald A. Norman
The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful appeal for good design, and a reminder of how-and why-some products satisfy while others only disappoint.
The Elements of User Experience
- By Jesse Garrett
Successful interaction design requires more than just creating clean code and sharp graphics. You must also fulfill your strategic objectives while meeting the needs of your users. The Elements of User Experience gives readers the big picture of user experience development, from strategy and requirements to information architecture and visual design.
Don't Make Me Think
- By Steve Krug
Witty, commonsensical, and eminently practical, it’s one of the best-loved and most recommended books on the subject - also the one that made me fall in love with user experience.
The User Experience Team of One
- By Leah Buley
Whether you want to cross over into user experience or you're a seasoned practitioner trying to drag your organization forward, this book gives you tools and insight for doing more with less.
Lean UX
- By Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seden
Lean UX lets you focus on the actual experience being designed, rather than deliverables. This book shows you how to collaborate closely with other members of your Agile product team, and gather feedback early and often. You'll learn how to drive the design in short, iterative cycles to assess what works best for the business and the user. Lean UX shows you how to make this change-for the better.
UX Strategy
- By Jaime Levy
This hands-on guide introduces lightweight product strategy tools and techniques to help you and your team devise innovative digital solutions that people want.
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
- By Charles Duhigg
Habits aren't destiny. They’ re science, one which can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives. This book is a well worth read that makes an exhilarating case: the key to almost any door in life is instilling the right habit.
Webs of Influence: The Psychology of Online Persuasion
- By Nathalie Nahai
In this book, Nathalie Nahai brings together the latest insights from the world of psychology, neuroscience and behavioural economics to explain the underlying dynamics and motivations behind consumer behaviour.
This Is Service Design Doing
- By Stickdorn, Hormess, Lawrence, Schneider
Service design requires a common language across disciplines to break down silos within an organization. This Is Service Design Doing provides a consistent model for accomplishing this and offers hands-on descriptions of every single step, tool, and method used.
Contextual Design: Design for Life
- By Karen Holtzblatt, Hugh Beyer
Learn how to gather detailed data on how people live, work, and use products, develop a coherent picture of a whole user population, generate new product concepts guided by user and structure the system and user interface to best support the user across place, time, and platform.
Put together in 2019. Let me know what you think. :)