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The books behind the thinking.

88 books that shaped how I think and work.

Design & UX

42 books
  • The Design of Everyday Things cover

    The Design of Everyday Things

    Don Norman

  • Don't Make Me Think cover

    Don't Make Me Think

    Steve Krug

  • Articulating Design Decisions cover

    Articulating Design Decisions

    Tom Greever

  • Creative Confidence cover

    Creative Confidence

    Tom & David Kelley

  • Inspired cover

    Inspired

    Marty Cagan

  • Refactoring UI cover

    Refactoring UI

    Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger

  • About Face cover

    About Face

    Alan Cooper

  • Laws of UX cover

    Laws of UX

    Jon Yablonski

  • Designing Interfaces cover

    Designing Interfaces

    Jenifer Tidwell

  • Designing Connected Products cover

    Designing Connected Products

    Claire Rowland et al.

  • Design for Care cover

    Design for Care

    Peter Jones

  • Experience Design cover

    Experience Design

    Patrick Newbery & Kevin Farnham

  • Designing Human-Centric AI Experiences cover

    Designing Human-Centric AI Experiences

    Akshay Kore

  • A Project Guide to UX Design cover

    A Project Guide to UX Design

    Russ Unger & Carolyn Chandler

  • Flow cover

    Flow

    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  • Design Thinking cover

    Design Thinking

    Tim Brown

  • Forms that Work cover

    Forms that Work

    Caroline Jarrett & Gerry Gaffney

  • The UX Book cover

    The UX Book

    Rex Hartson & Pardha S. Pyla

  • Information Architecture cover

    Information Architecture

    Christina Wodtke & Austin Govella

  • Strategic Writing for UX cover

    Strategic Writing for UX

    Torrey Podmajersky

  • User Story Mapping cover

    User Story Mapping

    Jeff Patton

  • Communicating the User Experience cover

    Communicating the User Experience

    Richard Caddick & Steve Cable

  • Search Patterns cover

    Search Patterns

    Peter Morville & Jeffery Callender

  • The New Designer cover

    The New Designer

    Manuel Lima

  • Handbook of Usability Testing cover

    Handbook of Usability Testing

    Jeffrey Rubin & Dana Chisnell

  • GUI Bloopers 2.0 cover

    GUI Bloopers 2.0

    Jeff Johnson

  • Universal Methods of Design cover

    Universal Methods of Design

    Bruce Hanington & Bella Martin

  • The Elements of Voice First Style cover

    The Elements of Voice First Style

    Ahmed Bouzid & Weiye Ma

  • Design Beyond Devices cover

    Design Beyond Devices

    Cheryl Platz

  • Conversations with Things cover

    Conversations with Things

    Diana Deibel & Rebecca Evanhoe

  • Customers Know You Suck cover

    Customers Know You Suck

    Debbie Levitt

  • Customer Experience Excellence cover

    Customer Experience Excellence

    Tim Knight & David Conway

  • The Cult of the Customer cover

    The Cult of the Customer

    Shep Hyken

  • Intersection cover

    Intersection

    Milan Guenther

  • Emotionally Intelligent Design cover

    Emotionally Intelligent Design

    Pamela Pavliscak

  • Drive cover

    Drive

    Daniel H. Pink

  • Designing with the Mind in Mind cover

    Designing with the Mind in Mind

    Jeff Johnson

  • Designing for Behavior Change cover

    Designing for Behavior Change

    Stephen Wendel

  • Design for How People Think cover

    Design for How People Think

    John Whalen

  • Designing with Sound cover

    Designing with Sound

    Amber Case & Aaron Day

  • Designing for Emerging Technologies cover

    Designing for Emerging Technologies

    Jonathan Follett

  • Designing Autonomous AI cover

    Designing Autonomous AI

    Kence Anderson

Strategy & Business

10 books
  • Good Strategy Bad Strategy cover

    Good Strategy Bad Strategy

    Richard Rumelt

  • Zero to One cover

    Zero to One

    Peter Thiel

  • The Lean Startup cover

    The Lean Startup

    Eric Ries

  • The Innovator's Dilemma cover

    The Innovator's Dilemma

    Clayton Christensen

  • Measure What Matters cover

    Measure What Matters

    John Doerr

  • Blue Ocean Strategy cover

    Blue Ocean Strategy

    W. Chan Kim

  • Competing Against Luck cover

    Competing Against Luck

    Clayton Christensen

  • Playing to Win cover

    Playing to Win

    A.G. Lafley & Roger Martin

  • Built to Last cover

    Built to Last

    Jim Collins

  • The Emergent Approach to Strategy cover

    The Emergent Approach to Strategy

    Peter Compo

Thinking & Psychology

11 books
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman

  • Range cover

    Range

    David Epstein

  • Atomic Habits cover

    Atomic Habits

    James Clear

  • Deep Work cover

    Deep Work

    Cal Newport

  • The Culture Code cover

    The Culture Code

    Daniel Coyle

  • Influence cover

    Influence

    Robert Cialdini

  • Predictably Irrational cover

    Predictably Irrational

    Dan Ariely

  • Mindset cover

    Mindset

    Carol Dweck

  • The 48 Laws of Power cover

    The 48 Laws of Power

    Robert Greene

  • Bullshit Jobs cover

    Bullshit Jobs

    David Graeber

  • The Laws of Human Nature cover

    The Laws of Human Nature

    Robert Greene

Product & Research

9 books
  • Sprint cover

    Sprint

    Jake Knapp

  • Hooked cover

    Hooked

    Nir Eyal

  • The Mom Test cover

    The Mom Test

    Rob Fitzpatrick

  • Building a StoryBrand cover

    Building a StoryBrand

    Donald Miller

  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things cover

    The Hard Thing About Hard Things

    Ben Horowitz

  • Continuous Discovery Habits cover

    Continuous Discovery Habits

    Teresa Torres

  • Escaping the Build Trap cover

    Escaping the Build Trap

    Melissa Perri

  • Empowered cover

    Empowered

    Marty Cagan

  • Transformed cover

    Transformed

    Marty Cagan

Team Building

9 books
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team cover

    The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

    Patrick Lencioni

  • Team of Teams cover

    Team of Teams

    General Stanley McChrystal

  • Radical Candor cover

    Radical Candor

    Kim Scott

  • Leaders Eat Last cover

    Leaders Eat Last

    Simon Sinek

  • Turn the Ship Around cover

    Turn the Ship Around

    L. David Marquet

  • The Ideal Team Player cover

    The Ideal Team Player

    Patrick Lencioni

  • Dare to Lead cover

    Dare to Lead

    Brené Brown

  • Start with Why cover

    Start with Why

    Simon Sinek

  • The One Minute Manager cover

    The One Minute Manager

    Ken Blanchard & Spencer Johnson

UX Management

7 books
  • Org Design for Design Orgs cover

    Org Design for Design Orgs

    Peter Merholz & Kristin Skinner

  • Design Leadership cover

    Design Leadership

    Richard Banfield

  • The User Experience Team of One cover

    The User Experience Team of One

    Leah Buley

  • Articulating Design Decisions cover

    Articulating Design Decisions

    Tom Greever

  • Design Is a Job cover

    Design Is a Job

    Mike Monteiro

  • Creative Confidence cover

    Creative Confidence

    Tom Kelley & David Kelley

  • User Experience Management cover

    User Experience Management

    Arnie Lund

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