31 Books on User Experience Design
31 Books on User Experience Design
31 Books on User Experience Design
A Journey of Learning
The life of a UX Designer can be hectic and challenging, but great UX designers are always perfecting their craft by staying up to date with the best user experience design practices and strategies. They are always learning about their industry and put what they learn to the test in their designs.
The best way to improve any craft is to learn from industry experts. Integrating the thoughts, opinions, and practices of experts with your own unique approach is one of the best ways to create designs that are both innovative and user-friendly. This substantial collection of user experience design books is designed to help advance a designer’s skills from the fundamentals to research and analytics, sketching and visual thinking, methods, and much more.
Fundamentals
- Killer UX Design – Jodie Moule
- The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction – Mads Soegaard & Rikke Friis Dam
- The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide – Leah Buley
- Universal Principles of Design -by William Lidwell
- The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience – Rex Hartson and Pardha S. Pyla
- Undercover User Experience Design – Cennydd Bowles & James Box
Research
- Contextual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems – Hugh Beyer and Karen Holtzblatt
- 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
- The Moderator’s Survival Guide: Handling Common, Tricky, and Sticky Situations in User Research – Donna Tedesco
- Interviewing Users: how to Uncover Compelling Insights – Steve Portigal
- Research Methods in Human-computer Interaction – Jonathan Lazar and Jinjuan Heidi Feng
- Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-centered Products and Services – Kim Goodwin
Methods & Process
- The Persona Lifecycle: Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design – John Pruitt & Tamara Adlin
- The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web – Steve Mulder
- Mapping Experiences: A Complete Guide to Creating Value through Journeys, Blueprints, and Diagrams 1st Edition by James Kalbach
- Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behaviour – Indi Young
Information Architecture
- A Practical Guide to Information Architecture (e-book) – Donna Spencer
- Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories – Donna Spencer
- Information Anxiety 2 – Richard S Wurman
Sketching & Visual Thinking
- Sketching User Experiences (workbook) – Saul Greenberg, Sheelagh Carpendale, Nicolai Marquardt and Bill Buxton
- Envisioning Information – Edward Tufte
- Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences – Nancy Duarte
- The Doodle Revolution – Sunni Brown
- The Graphic Facilitator’s Guide – Brandy Agerbeck
- Sketchnotes 2011 – Eva-Lotta Lamm
- The Back of the Napkin – Dan Roam
- Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design – Bill Buxton
- Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces – Carolyn Snyder
- The Sketchnote Handbook – Mike Rohde
Analytics
- Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics – Brian Clifton
- Web Analytics: An Hour A Day – Avanash Kaushik
Conclusion
The best UX designers are always learning – learning from their own mistakes, learning from the mistakes of colleagues, and learning from the mistakes of experts – and always looking to be innovative in their industry. The key to being successful in this industry is integration. Great UX designers are always open to combining their unique ideas with the perspectives of other professionals in the industry.
We hope this reading list will help in your pursuit of being an expert UX designer, but in making life easier for users by constantly innovating and creating designs that delight. Please feel free to share it with your colleagues, connections, and friends. Be sure to check out our library of UX resources.
