Recommended Reads

Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience (2nd Edition)
by Tom Greever

Cracking Information Architecture: The Definitive Field Guide for Designers, Business Managers and Project Teams
by Colin Shanley

Design for How People Think: Using Brain Science to Build Better Products
by John Whalen

The Design of Everyday Things
by Don Norman

Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Guidelines.
by Jeff Johnson

Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design (3rd Edition)
by Jenifer Tidwell

Dieter Rams: Ten Principles for Good Design
by Cees W. De Jong, Klaus Klemp, Jorrit Maan, and Erik Mattie

Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition)
by Steve Krug

The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond (2nd Edition)
by Jesse James Garrett

Evil by Design: Interaction Design to Lead Us into Temptation
by Chris Nodder

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
by Nir Eyal

Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond (4th Edition)
by Louis Rosenfeld

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
by Alan Cooper

Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
by Austin Klein

The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
by John Madea

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
by Eric Ries

Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams (3rd Edition)
by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden

Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services
by Jon Yablonski

Microcopy: The Complete Guide (2nd Edition)
by Kinneret Yifrah

The Non-Designer’s Design Book (4th Edition)
by Robin Williams

Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design (2nd Edition)
by Giles Colborne

Solving Product Design Exercises
by Artiom Dashinsky

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
by Austin Kleon

Storytelling in Design: Defining, Designing, and Selling Multidevice Products
by Anna Dahlström

Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design (2nd edition)
by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler

User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
by Cliff Kuang

UX Strategy: Product Strategy Techniques for Devising Innovative Digital Solutions (2nd Edition)
by Jaime Levy