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Books every UX designer should read

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UX books that cover essential points of a UX design process that i have discovered along my UX journey.
 
Sprint: Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas
 
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With this book, you’ll be better equipped to know what aspects of behaviour matter most to the product, as well as how you can know what makes your users tick.
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know
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Design Thinking Workbook (Innovation Mastery)
 
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How desing serves as the communication between objects and users
The Design of Everyday Things: Revised & Expanded
 
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how to conduct users interviews, how to prepare for user interviews, how to ask questions, how to document findings and how to optimize the interview 
Interviewing Users: Uncover Insights
 
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a startup is a common environment for designers to work for 
The Lean Startup: How Entrepreneurs Use...
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what are design patterns and why we should use them, how we should decide on using them and many more
Practical UI Patterns for Design Systems
 
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understand why users engage more with selected products
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
 
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Emotional Design is all about the part that human emotions play in UX.
Emotional Design: Why We Love Everyday Things
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emphasizes the importance of simplicity as well as consistency when it comes to design
Don't Make Me Think
 
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process that can help designers to achieve a successful product, lots of stories from experienced designers 
Designing Products People Love: How Great ...
 
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essentials at your fingertips
Universal Principles of Design Hardcover - Books
 
Grid Systems in Graphic Design: Visual Comm...
 
Graphic Design: The New Basics Paperback
 
Designing with Data: Improving User Experience
 
The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies
 
Algorithms of Oppression - NYU Press
 
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data...
 
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Your friend when transitioning to UX
Taking Your Talent to the Web
 
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A great read for solo designers and small design teams. Lots of UX learnings
The User Experience Team of One: A Research
 
An Essay on Typography
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this books helps if you lost your creativity
The Creative Act: A Way of Being Hardcover
 
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intersection of design and politics
The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global
 
Erika Hall Just Enough Research
 
Microcopy: The Complete Guide
 
97 Things Every UX Practitioner Should Know [Book]
 
Atomic Design by Brad Frost
 
Designing for People : Dreyfuss, Henry
 
Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond
 
Opticks: or, A treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflexions ...
 
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This UX design book can be either an eye-opening experience for new designers or a great opportunity to freshen up on the lean method for design veterans.
Lean UX
 
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The book focuses on products that people use often because they want to, not because they have to.
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
 
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This book can double as an introduction to UX as well as interesting reading material for design veterans.
Understanding Industrial Design: Principles for UX
 
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Many readers agree that Usable Usability is a wonderful way to showcase the main elements and goals involved in usability testing.
Usable Usability: Simple Steps for Making Stuff Better
 
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While this book won’t tell you how to create a convincing interface, it will help you understand how people’s decisions can be influenced. And that, friends, is knowledge worth having as a designer.
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone
 
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Meant for people who are only starting to get familiar with the world of UX, this book gives an overview of all the factors at play when we create a brand new digital product.
UX for Beginners: A Crash Course in 100 Short Lessons
 
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It takes the complex and sometimes overwhelming idea of usability testing and breaks it down into theory and applicable guidelines.
Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide
 
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This UX design book aims to be a great introduction to the world of digital product design.
About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design
 
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It covers everything, from design and research, to the rollout and quality assurance that continues far beyond the product launch.
Project Guide to UX Design, A: For user exp...
 
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This book is a complete guide to user testing and usability as a whole. The take on usability is quite interesting: the matter of quantifying the design.
Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing...
 
Inclusive Design for a Digital World: Designing
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Ruined by Design
 
Building for Everyone
 
Mismatch
 
Sameera Kapila Inclusive Design Communities
 
Beyond Sticky Notes
 
Deploy Empathy Home - Deploy Empathy
 
Senongo Akpem Cross-Cultural Design