BOOKS

Don't Make Me Think

Steve Krug

Usability, Fundamentals

The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman

Usability, Fundamentals

The Elements of User Experience

Jesse James Garrett

Fundamentals

Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design

William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler

Usability, Interaction Design

Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams

Jeff Gothelf

Methods & Process

About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design

Alan Cooper

Interaction Design, Research

Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

Bill Buxton

Sketching & Visual Thinking

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

Susan Weinschenk

Psychology

Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-centered Products and Services

Kim Goodwin

Research, Interaction Design

Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks

Luke Wroblewski

UI Design

Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond

Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld, Jorge Arango

Information Architecture

Simple and Usable: Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design

Giles Colborne

Usability

Rocket Surgery Made Easy

Steve Krug

Usability

The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide

Leah Buley

Fundamentals, Methods & Process

Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics, 2nd edition

Thomas Tullis, William Albert

Analytics, Usability

Designing Interactions

Bill Moggridge

Interaction Design

Envisioning Information

Edward Tufte

Sketching & Visual Thinking

A Project Guide To UX Design

Russ Unger, Carolyn Chandler

Methods & Process, Fundamentals

Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights

Steve Portigal

Research

Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning

Dan M. Brown

Communicating UX

Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences

Stephen P. Anderson

Interaction Design

Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design and Conduct Effective Tests

Jeffrey Rubin, Dana Chisnell

Usability

Designing for Interaction

Dan Saffer

Interaction Design

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

Alan Cooper

Related

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal, Ryan Hoover

Psychology

Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things

Don Norman

Interaction Design

Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design

Jenifer Tidwell

Interaction Design

Gamestorming: A Playbook For Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers

Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo

Methods & Process, Business & Strategy

Designing With the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules

Jeff Johnson

Psychology

Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behaviour

Indi Young

Methods & Process, Research, Psychology

Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content That Works

Janice Redish

Content & Copywriting

The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for ensuring a Quality User Experience

Rex Hartson, Pardha Pyla

Methods & Process, Fundamentals

Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click?

Susan Weinschenk

Psychology

Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web & Mobile Application Design

Robert Hoekman

Usability

Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research

Mike Kuniavsky

Research

Responsive Web Design

Ethan Marcotte

Mobile & Responsive

Smashing UX Design: Foundations for Designing Online User Experiences

Jesmond Allen, James Chudley

Fundamentals

Mobile Usability

Jakob Nielsen, Raluca Budiu

Usability, Mobile & Responsive

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward Tufte

Sketching & Visual Thinking

Design is a Job

Mike Monteiro

Career

Microinteractions: Designing with Details

Dan Saffer

Interaction Design

Just Enough Research

Erika Hall

Research

Communicating the User Experience: A practical guide for creating useful UX documentation

Richard Caddick, Steve Cable

Communicating UX

Designing for Emotion

Aaron Walter

Methods & Process

Undercover User Experience Design

Cennydd Bowles, James Box

Fundamentals

Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories

Donna Spencer

Information Architecture

Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions

Bill Scott

Interaction Design

The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web

Steve Mulder

Methods & Process

Prototyping: A Practitioner's Guide

Todd Zaki Warfel

Prototyping

This is Service Design Thinking: Basics, Tools, Cases

Marc Stickdorn, Jakob Schneider

Service Design

Universal Methods of Design: 100 Ways to Research Complex Problems, Develop Innovative Ideas, and Design Effective Solutions

Bruce Haningto, Bella Martin

Research

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

John Maeda

Related

Mobile First

Luke Wroblewski

Mobile & Responsive

It's Our Research

Tomer Sharon

Research

Usable Usability: Simple Steps for Making Stuff Better

Eric Reiss

Usability

Agile Experience Design: A Digital Designer's Guide to Agile, Lean, and Continuous

Lindsay Ratcliffe, Marc McNeill

Methods & Process

Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook

Saul Greenberg, Sheelagh Carpendale, Nicolai Marquardt, Bill Buxton

Sketching & Visual Thinking

User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product

Jeff Patton

Methods & Process

User Experience Management: Essential Skills for Leading Effective UX Teams

Arnie Lund

Business & Strategy

Search Analytics for Your Site: Conversations with Your Customers

Louis Rosenfeld

Analytics

Designing Together: The collaboration and conflict management handbook for creative professionals

Dan M. Brown

Career

Content Strategy for the Web

Kristina Halvorson, Melissa Rach

Content & Copywriting

Designing Web Navigation

James Kalbach

Information Architecture

Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction

Yvonne Rogers

Interaction Design

Thoughtful Interaction Design: A Design Perspective on Information Technology

Jonas Löwgren, Erik Stolterman

Interaction Design

Thoughts on Interaction Design

Jon Kolko

Interaction Design

Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps

Josh Clark

Mobile & Responsive

Content Strategy for Mobile

Karen McGrane

Mobile & Responsive, Content & Copywriting

Search Patterns: Design for Discovery

Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender

Information Architecture, Interaction Design

Contextual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems

Hugh Beyer, Karen Holtzblatt

Research

Quantifying the User Experience: Practical Statistics for User Research

Jeff Sauro, James R Lewis

Research

The Back of the Napkin

Dan Roam

Sketching & Visual Thinking

Forms That Work

Caroline Jarrett, Gerry Gaffney

UI Design

Living with Complexity

Don Norman

Usability

Usability Engineering

Jakob Nielsen

Usability, Fundamentals

Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data

Stephen Few

Visual Design

A Web For Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences

Sarah Horton, Whitney Quesenbery

Accessibility

Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation

Tim Brown

Related

Think First - My no-nonsense approach to creating successful products, memorable user experiences and happy customers

Joe Natoli

Methods & Process, Business & Strategy

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

Ed Catmull

Related

Understanding Your Users: A Practical Guide to User Requirements Methods, Tools, and Techniques

Catherine Courage, Kathy Baxter

Methods & Process, Research

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz

Business & Strategy, Methods & Process

Web Analytics: An Hour A Day

Avanash Kaushik

Analytics

Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers

Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur

Business & Strategy

The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses

Eric Ries

Business & Strategy

Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World

Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, Brandon Schauer, David Verba

Business & Strategy, Methods & Process

Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind

Jocelyn K. Glei, 99U

Career

A Practical Guide to Information Architecture

Donna Spencer

Information Architecture

Information Anxiety 2

Richard S Wurman

Information Architecture

Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web

Christina Wodtke

Information Architecture

Product Design for the Web: Principles of Designing and Releasing Web Products

Randy Hunt

Methods & Process

User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

Mike Cohn

Methods & Process

Well-Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love

Jon Kolko

Methods & Process

Storytelling For User Experience: Crafting Stories For Better Design

Whitney Quesenbery, Kevin Brooks

Methods & Process

The Shape of Design

Frank Chimero

Methods & Process, Communicating UX

The Persona Lifecycle: Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design

John Pruitt, Tamara Adlin

Methods & Process, Research

Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces

Carolyn Snyder

Prototyping

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Psychology

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Robert B. Cialdini

Psychology

Design Is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable

Nathan Shedroff

Sustainable Design, Business & Strategy

It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be: The world's best selling book

Paul Arden

Related, Communicating UX, Career

Designing with Web Standards

Jeffrey Zeldman, Ethan Marcotte

Related

Service Design: From Insight to Implementation

Andy Polaine, Lavrans Løvlie, Ben Reason

Service Design

Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner's Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis

Jon Kolko

Research

Remote Research: Real Users, Real Time, Real Research

Nate Bolt, Tony Tulathimutte

Research

The Essential Persona Lifecycle: Your Guide to Building and Using Personas

Tamara Adlin, John Pruitt

Research, Methods & Process

Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences

Nancy Duarte

Sketching & Visual Thinking, Communicating UX

See What I Mean: How to use Comics to Communicate Ideas

Kevin Cheng

Sketching & Visual Thinking, Communicating UX

Mobile Design Pattern Gallery: UI Patterns for Smartphone Apps

Theresa Neil

UI Design

Designed for Use

Lukas Mathis

Usability

Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction

Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Maxine Cohen, Steven Jacobs

Usability, Interaction Design

Global Usability

Ian Douglas, Zhengjie Liu

Usability

Prioritizing Web Usability

Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger

Usability

Usability Inspection Methods

Jakob Nielsen

Usability

The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems

Jef Raskin

Usability, Psychology

The Non-Designer's Design Book

Robin Williams

Visual Design

Rework

Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

Business & Strategy

Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team

Alina Wheeler

Branding, Visual Design

Badass: Making Users Awesome

Kathy Sierra

Business & Strategy

UX for Beginners: A Crash Course in 100 Short Lessons

Joel Marsh

Fundamentals

The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design

Marty Neumeier

Business & Strategy, Branding

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Scott McCloud

Sketching & Visual Thinking

UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want

Jaime Levy

Methods & Process, Business & Strategy

Make It New: A History of Silicon Valley Design

Barry M. Katz

Related

Practical Empathy: For Collaboration and Creativity in Your Work

Indi Young

Related, Methods & Process

Eyetracking Web Usability

Jakob Nielsen, Kara Pernice

Usability

Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love

Marty Cagan

Business & Strategy

The Best Interface Is No Interface: The Simple Path to Brilliant Technology

Golden Krishna

UI Design

Atomic Design

Brad Frost

UI Design, Interaction Design

Design for Real Life

Eric A. Meyer, Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Methods & Process, Ethics

Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance

Richard Rutter, Patrick H. Lauke, Cynthia Waddell, Jim Thatcher, Shawn Lawton Henry, Bruce Lawson, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Christian Heilmann, Michael R. Burks, Bob Regan, Mark Urban

Accessibility

Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics

Brian Clifton

Analytics

Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability & Science of Customer Centricity

Avinash Kaushik

Analytics

Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application

37 Signals

Business & Strategy

The Connected Company

Dave Gray

Business & Strategy

The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing

Lisa Gansky

Business & Strategy

Success By Design: The Essential Business Reference for Designers

David Sherwin

Business & Strategy

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Business & Strategy

Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down

John P. Kotter, Lorne A. Whitehead

Business & Strategy

Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

Richard Rumelt

Business & Strategy

Customer Experience Strategy - The Complete Guide from Innovation to Execution

Lior Arussy

Business & Strategy

The Practice of Management

Peter F. Drucker

Business & Strategy

Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences

Steve Diller, Nathan Shedroff, Darrel Rhea

Business & Strategy

Building Design Strategy: Using Design to Achieve Key Business Objectives

Thomas Lockwood, Thomas Walton

Business & Strategy

Design Thinking: Integrating Innovation, Customer Experience, and Brand Value

Thomas Lockwood

Business & Strategy

Designing Search: UX Strategies for eCommerce Success

Greg Nudelman

Information Architecture

Bridging UX and Web Development: Better Results Through Team Integration

Jack Moffett

Business & Strategy, Career

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Seth Godin

Career

Killer Web Content: Make the Sale, Deliver the Service, Build the Brand

Gerry McGovern

Content & Copywriting

Content Strategy at Work: Real-world Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Project

Margot Bloomstein

Content & Copywriting

Persuasive Copywriting

Andy Maslen

Content & Copywriting

Adventures in Experience Design: Activities for Beginners

Carolyn Chandler, Anna van Slee

Fundamentals

Killer UX Design

Jodie Moule

Fundamentals

The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction

Mads Soegaard, Rikke Friis Dam

Fundamentals, Free

UX Storytellers: Connecting the dots

Jan Jursa, Stephen Köver, Jutta Grünewald

Fundamentals, Methods & Process, Free

UI Is Communication: How to Design Intuitive, User Centered Interfaces by Focusing on Effective Communication

Everett N. McKay

Fundamentals, UI Design

Evaluating User Experience in Games

Regina Bernhaupt

Methods & Process, Game Design

Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become

Peter Morville

Information Architecture

Pervasive Information Architecture: Designing Cross-Channel User Experiences

Andrea Resmini, Luca Rosati

Information Architecture

Computers as Theatre

Brenda Laurel

Interaction Design

Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons From Science Fiction

Nathan Shedroff, Christopher Noessel

Interaction Design

Designing Gestural Interfaces: Touchscreens and Interactive Devices

Dan Saffer

Interaction Design, Mobile & Responsive

Designing Intranets: Creating Sites That Work

James Robertson

Intranets

What Every Intranet Team Should Know

James Robertson

Intranets

Where Good Ideas Come From

Steven Johnson

Methods & Process

Adapting User Experience for Global Projects: Towards a Universal UX

Paul Sherman, Whitney Quesenbery

Methods & Process

Design for Emotion

Trevor Van Gorp

Methods & Process, Psychology

Designing Services with Innovative Methods

Satu Miettinen, Mikko Koivisto

Service Design, Methods & Process

Designing Social Interfaces

Christian Crumlish, Erin Malone

Methods & Process

Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action

Robert Hoekman Jr

Methods & Process

Experience Design: Technology for All the Right Reasons

Marc Hassenzahl

Methods & Process

Gamification by Design

Gabe Zichermann, Christopher Cunningham

Methods & Process

Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design

Mike Kuniavsky

Methods & Process, Internet of Things

Useful, Usable, Desirable: Applying User Experience Design to Your Library

Amanda Etches, Aaron Schmidt

Methods & Process

User Experience Innovation: User Centered Design That Works

Christian Kraft

Methods & Process

Designing the Conversation: Techniques for Successful Facilitation

Russ Unger, Brad Nunnally, Dan Willis

Methods & Process, Communicating UX

Designing for the Social Web

Joshua Porter

Methods & Process, Business & Strategy, Psychology

Designing the Mobile User Experience

Barbara Ballard

Mobile & Responsive

Mobile Design and Development: Practical Concepts and Techniques for Creating Mobile Sites and Web Apps

Brian Fling

Mobile & Responsive

The Mobile Frontier: A Guide for Designing Mobile Experiences

Rachel Hinman

Mobile & Responsive

There's Not an App for That: Mobile User Experience Design for Life

Simon Robinson, Gary Marsden, Matt Jones

Mobile & Responsive

Mobile Interaction Design

Matt Jones, Gary Marsden

Mobile & Responsive, Interaction Design

Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Websites

Andrew Chak

Psychology

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

Barry Schwartz

Psychology

Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

Martin Lindstrom

Psychology, Business & Strategy

The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation Design

Tod Polson

Related

Execute - Acting on Ideas Immediately When Inspired Rather Than Following the Normal Rules

Josh Long, Drew Wilson

Related

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure)

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel

Related

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Sherry Turkle

Related

Building the Realtime User Experience

Ted Roden

Related

Awareness: Exploring, Experimenting, Experiencing

John O. Stevens

Related

Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide

Henry Jenkins

Psychology

Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills

David Sherwin

Related

Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change

Victor Papanek

Related

Design Forward: Creative Strategies for Sustainable Change

Hartmut Esslinger

Sustainable Design

Design: The History, Theory and Practice of Product Design

Bernhard E. Burdek

Related

Designing for People

Henry Dreyfuss

Related

Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

David Weinberger

Related

Finite and Infinite Games

James Carse

Related

Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages

Alex Wright

Related

In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World

John Thackara

Related

Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

Cass R. Sunstein

Related

Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind

Gary Marcus

Psychology

Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age

Marty Neumeier

Related

Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain

Tom Stafford & Matt Webb

Related

Notes on the Synthesis of Form

Christopher Alexander

Related

Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World

Rick Poynor

Related

Simplicity

Edward de Bono

Related

The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses

Jesse Schell

Related

The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter

Related

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs

Related

The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are

Henry Petroski

Related

The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage

B. Joseph Pine II, James H. Gilmore

Related

The Grand Design

Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow

Related

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

James Gleick

Related

The Long Tail: Why the Future Is Selling Less of More

Chris Anderson

Related

The Semantic Turn

Klaus H. Krippendorff

Related

The Shallows: How the Internet is changing the way we read, think and remember

Nicholas Carr

Related

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Malcolm Gladwell

Related

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Steven Pressfield, Shawn Coyne

Related

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Related

Watches Tell More Than Time: Product Design, Information, and the Quest for Elegance

Del Coates

Related

We Think: The Power Of Mass Creativity

Charles W. Leadbeater

Related

What Technology Wants

Kevin Kelly

Related

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

Steven Johnson

Related

Creativity For Sale: How I Made $1,000,000 Wearing T-Shirts and How You Can Turn Your Passion Into Profit, Too

Jason SurfrApp

Related, Business & Strategy

Drawn to Business

Bill Beachy

Related, Business & Strategy

From Products to Services: Insights and Experience from Companies Which Have Embraced the Service Economy

Laurie Young

Service Design, Business & Strategy

How Google Works

Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg

Related, Business & Strategy

Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success

Ken Segall

Related, Business & Strategy

Remote: Office Not Required

Jason Frie, David Heinemeier Hansson

Related, Business & Strategy

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)

Clayton M. Christensen

Related, Business & Strategy

Life's a Pitch: How to Sell Yourself and Your Brilliant Ideas

Roger Mavity & Stephen Bayley

Related, Business & Strategy

Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Dan Ariely

Related, Psychology

Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping

Paco Underhill

Related, Psychology

Designing Design

Kenya Hara

Related, Visual Design

The Art of Looking Sideways

Alan Fletcher

Related, Visual Design

World Without Words

Michael Evamy

Related, Visual Design

Always Be Testing: The Complete Guide to Google Website Optimizer

Bryan Eisenberg, John Quarto-vonTivadar

Research

Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Create Extraordinary Products for Tomorrow's Customers

Jan Chipchase, Simon Steinhardt

Research

Practical Ethnography: A Guide to Doing Ethnography in the Private Sector

Sam Ladner

Research

Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

W. Lawrence Neuman

Research

The Handbook of Global User Research

Robert Schumacher

Research

The Moderator's Survival Guide: Handling Common, Tricky, and Sticky Situations in User Research

Donna Tedesco

Research

The Mom Test: How to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

Rob Fitzpatrick

Research

User and Task Analysis for Interface Design

JoAnn T. Hackos, Janice C. Redish

Research

Experience Disaster: How Participatory Designers Can Support Participatory Cultures

Liza Potts

Research, Methods & Process

Sketchnotes 2011

Eva-Lotta Lamm

Sketching & Visual Thinking

The Doodle Revolution

Sunni Brown

Sketching & Visual Thinking

The Graphic Facilitator's Guide

Brandy Agerbeck

Sketching & Visual Thinking

The Sketchnote Handbook

Mike Rohde

Sketching & Visual Thinking

Unfolding the Napkin: The Hands-On Method for Solving Complex Problems with Simple Pictures

Dan Roam

Sketching & Visual Thinking

Beyond the Usability Lab: Conducting Large-Scale Online User Experience Studies

William Albert, Thomas Tullis, Donna Tedesco

Usability

Designing Web Usability

Jakob Nielsen

Usability

E-Commerce Usability: Tools and Techniques to Perfect the On-line Experience

David Travis

Usability

E-Commerce User Experience

Jakob Nielsen

Usability

Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed

Jakob Nielsen, Marie Tahir

Usability

Human Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications

Julie A. Jacko

Usability

Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability

Luke Wroblewski

Usability

The Design of Future Things

Don Norman

Usability

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Engineering

John D. Lee, Alex Kirlik

Usability

The Usability Kit

Gerry Gaffney and Daniel Szuc

Usability

Usability in Government Systems: User Experience Design for Citizens and Public Servants

Elizabeth Buie, Dianne Murray

Usability

A Practical Guide to Usability Testing

Joseph S. Dumas, Janice C. Redish

Usability

Sexy Web Design

Elliot Jay Stocks

Visual Design

The Design of Sites

Jason I. Hong

Visual Design

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

Jason Beaird

Visual Design

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

Edward R. Tufte

Visual Design

Hacking Human Nature for Good: A Practical Guide to Changing Human Behavior

Dan Ariely, Jason Hreha, Kristen Berman

Psychology

Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do

B.J. Fogg

Psychology

How to Get People to Do Stuff: Master the art and science of persuasion and motivation

Susan Weinschenk

Psychology

The Art Of Innovation: Lessons In Creativity From IDEO

Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman

Business & Strategy, Methods & Process

A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers Will Rule The Future

Daniel Pink

Related

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Leslie Jamison

Related

A Pattern Language for Web Usability

Ian Graham

Usability

Visualization Analysis and Design

Tamara Munzner

Visual Design

Six Thinking Hats

Edward de Bono

Business & Strategy, Related

History of Modern Design

David Raizman

Related

Thinking with Type

Ellen Lupton

Visual Design

Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team

Alina Wheeler

Related

The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need

Daniel H. Pink

Career

Interdisciplinary Interaction Design

James Pannafino

Interaction Design

How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody 

Abby Covert

Information Architecture

Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design

Chip Kidd

Visual Design

Web Usability: A User-Centered Design Approach

Jonathan Lazar

Usability

Web Application Design Patterns

Pawan Vora

Interaction Design

Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age

Roman Pichler

Business & Strategy

100 More Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People

Susan Weinschenk

Psychology

The User's Journey: Storymapping Products That People Love

Donna Lichaw

Methods & Process

UX for Lean Startups

Laura Klein

Business & Strategy

The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage

Roger L. Martin

Business & Strategy

Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience

Tom Greever

Communicating UX

Discussing Design: Improving Communication and Collaboration through Critique

Adam Connor, Aaron Irizarry

Communicating UX

The Joy of UX: User Experience and Interactive Design for Developers

David Platt

Fundamentals

The Tao of User Experience

Robert Hoekman Jr

Fundamentals

100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design

Related, Visual Design

Borge Mogensen: Simplicity and Function

Borge Mogensen

Related

Data-Driven Design: Improving User Experience with A/B Testing

Rochelle King

Methods & Process

How to Use Graphic Design to Sell Things, Explain Things, Make Things Look Better, Make People Laugh, Make People Cry, and (Every Once in a While) Change the World

Michael Bierut

Related, Visual Design

The Practitioner’s Guide to User Experience Design

Luke Miller

Fundamentals

Prototyping for Physical and Digital Products

Kathryn McElroy

Prototyping

Graphic Design Visionaries

Caroline Roberts

Related, Visual Design

Validating Product Ideas: Through Lean User Research

Tomer Sharon

Research

Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things

Peter-Paul Verbeek

Ethics

The Little Book of Design Research Ethics

Ideo

Research, Ethics, Free

The Republic

Plato

Ethics, Free

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Immanuel Kant

Ethics, Free

Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill

Ethics, Free

Introducing Ethics

Dave Robinson, Chris Garratt

Ethics