100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People by Susan M. Weinschenk
If you design for people, it’s essential you understand psychology, and design psychologist Susan Weinschenk has spent years explaining how psychology impacts the way users interact with design. 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About Peoplehas been an essential read since it initially came out in 2011 and was recently updated this year with .
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Designing Experiences by J. Robert Rossman and Mathew D. Duerden
Designing Experiencesis a great book for students and beginning UX designers—and anyone else who has a stake in creating experiences people will love.
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Robert Rossman and Mathew Duerden are professors and take a smart but practical approach to their topic, which enables them to outline various theories and methods for designing experie.
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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
Hookeduses consumer psychology to explain why some digital products are so engaging they become habit forming, while others never capture users’ attention.
Author Nir Eyal has years of experience as researcher, consultant and start-up founder and he’s distilled what he’s learned about user engagement into this book.
The book includes case studies a.
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Microcopy: The Complete Guide by Kinnerest Yifrah
Israeli UX writer Kinnerest Yifrah’s handbook Microcopy is considered the gold standard of UX writing.
The recently released second edition covers the essentials of UX writing, including establishing the voice and tone for your project, writing everything from error messages to buttons and how writing can be used to guide users through tasks.
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Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes
While UX and UI designers have made nods to creating accessible, inclusive designfor years, this has rarely been as active a consideration as it should be.
Yet, as the world becomes increasingly dependent on digital technology, the necessity to understand and accommodate the needs of everyone is more important than ever.
In Mismatch, designer Kat H.
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Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro
If you’re a designer, there’s a high likelihood Ruined by Designwill make you angry.
Designer and author Mike Monteiro is going for the jugular with his observations, but he’s also pointing out something essential designers should consider in their work: that everything designers create has the power to shape human behavior.
That means design can b.
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User Friendly by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant
User Friendlyis a fascinating book that presents UX design from a unique angle: the history of design and rise of user-friendly products.
Designers and co-authors Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant explain how design shapes us as individuals and as a society while discussing the reasons UX design has become increasingly essential in a world where poo.
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What are the best design thinking books?
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Many lists of design thinking books tend to tout the same titles, including:
Alan Cooper’s About Face Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think and Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things. ,
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Books shelved as design-thinking:
Change by Design:How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation by Tim Brown The Design of Busi.. ,
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Graphic Design Theory:
Readings from the Field This book is perfect for graphic designers of all ages and experience levels.
Obviously, it’s important for any graphic designer to understand the technical aspect of design.
But the whys of graphic design are equally important. 