The Only UX Reading List Ever

1.
The Design of Everyday Things
The Design of Everyday Things 4.15 avg rating — 46,466 ratings
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Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability 4.24 avg rating — 30,312 ratings
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Educational Game Design Fundamentals: A Journey to Creating Intrinsically Motivating Learning Experiences
Educational Game Design Fundamentals: A Journey to Creating Intrinsically Motivating Learning Experiences 4.33 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web 4.01 avg rating — 4,125 ratings
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Just Enough Research
Just Enough Research 4.19 avg rating — 2,089 ratings
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Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application
Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10,711 ratings
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Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior
Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior 3.87 avg rating — 1,074 ratings
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The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide
The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide 4.20 avg rating — 1,583 ratings
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About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design 4.07 avg rating — 3,519 ratings
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Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences
Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences 4.08 avg rating — 1,372 ratings
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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity 3.94 avg rating — 2,938 ratings
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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People 4.10 avg rating — 6,185 ratings
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The Laws of Simplicity
The Laws of Simplicity 3.90 avg rating — 6,952 ratings
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Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites 3.93 avg rating — 3,823 ratings
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A Project Guide to UX Design: For User Experience Designers in the Field or in the Making
A Project Guide to UX Design: For User Experience Designers in the Field or in the Making 3.87 avg rating — 1,777 ratings
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Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics (Interactive Technologies)
Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics (Interactive Technologies) 4.08 avg rating — 564 ratings
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Designing for Emotion
Designing for Emotion 3.96 avg rating — 2,667 ratings
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User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product
User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product 4.19 avg rating — 3,865 ratings
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Well-Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love
Well-Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love
by: Jon Kolko
3.90 avg rating — 502 ratings
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Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research
Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 693 ratings
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Microinteractions: Designing with Details
Microinteractions: Designing with Details 4.01 avg rating — 1,012 ratings
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Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design
Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design 3.90 avg rating — 2,519 ratings
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Universal Principles of Design: 125 ways to enhance usability, influence perception, increase appeal, make better design decisions, and teach through design
Universal Principles of Design: 125 ways to enhance usability, influence perception, increase appeal, make better design decisions, and teach through design 4.16 avg rating — 5,855 ratings
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Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems
Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems 4.14 avg rating — 4,354 ratings
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The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction
The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Designing Interfaces
Designing Interfaces 3.83 avg rating — 1,999 ratings
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Gamestorming A Playbook For Innovators, Rulebreakers, And Changemakers
Gamestorming A Playbook For Innovators, Rulebreakers, And Changemakers
by: Dave Gray
3.95 avg rating — 6,775 ratings
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Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests
Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests 3.95 avg rating — 551 ratings
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Practical Empathy: For Collaboration and Creativity in Your Work
Practical Empathy: For Collaboration and Creativity in Your Work 3.83 avg rating — 319 ratings
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Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights
Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights 4.14 avg rating — 1,412 ratings
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Design Is a Job
Design Is a Job 4.22 avg rating — 5,055 ratings
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Content Strategy for the Web
Content Strategy for the Web really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,952 ratings
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Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills
Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills 3.97 avg rating — 870 ratings
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Responsive Web Design
Responsive Web Design 4.13 avg rating — 3,632 ratings
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Undercover User Experience Design
Undercover User Experience Design 4.03 avg rating — 508 ratings
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Designing With Web Standards
Designing With Web Standards 4.08 avg rating — 2,099 ratings
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Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click?
Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click? 3.85 avg rating — 987 ratings
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Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services
Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services 4.15 avg rating — 687 ratings
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A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences
A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences 4.37 avg rating — 261 ratings
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The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience
The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience 3.84 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience
Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience 3.99 avg rating — 6,635 ratings
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Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World
Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World 3.83 avg rating — 385 ratings
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A Practical Guide to Information Architecture
A Practical Guide to Information Architecture 3.81 avg rating — 273 ratings
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Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning
Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning 3.90 avg rating — 1,216 ratings
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Designing Together: The Collaboration and Conflict Management Handbook for Creative Professionals
Designing Together: The Collaboration and Conflict Management Handbook for Creative Professionals 3.96 avg rating — 106 ratings
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The Shape of Design
The Shape of Design 3.90 avg rating — 1,158 ratings
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Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions
Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions 3.92 avg rating — 564 ratings
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Thoughts on Interaction Design
Thoughts on Interaction Design
by: Jon Kolko
3.86 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Brain-Computer Interfaces: Revolutionizing Human-Computer Interaction
Brain-Computer Interfaces: Revolutionizing Human-Computer Interaction really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (99U)
Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (99U) 3.95 avg rating — 26,224 ratings
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Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? 3.83 avg rating — 46,217 ratings
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Pervasive Information Architecture: Designing Cross-Channel User Experiences
Pervasive Information Architecture: Designing Cross-Channel User Experiences 4.07 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Human-Computer Interaction: An Empirical Research Perspective
Human-Computer Interaction: An Empirical Research Perspective 4.30 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Designing with Blends: Conceptual Foundations of Human-Computer Interaction and Software Engineering
Designing with Blends: Conceptual Foundations of Human-Computer Interaction and Software Engineering 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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UX for Lean Startups: Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design
UX for Lean Startups: Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design 4.10 avg rating — 2,091 ratings
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Designing Interactions
Designing Interactions 3.98 avg rating — 2,463 ratings
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Human–Computer Interaction: Fundamentals and Practice
Human–Computer Interaction: Fundamentals and Practice 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information 4.39 avg rating — 8,577 ratings
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High Performance Web Sites
High Performance Web Sites 4.15 avg rating — 687 ratings
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Envisioning Information
Envisioning Information 4.23 avg rating — 7,914 ratings
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Even Faster Web Sites
Even Faster Web Sites 3.94 avg rating — 345 ratings
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Designing for People
Designing for People 4.11 avg rating — 227 ratings
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The Mobile Frontier: A Guide for Designing Mobile Experiences
The Mobile Frontier: A Guide for Designing Mobile Experiences 3.76 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Design Is The Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable
Design Is The Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable 3.86 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Prototyping: A Practitioner's Guide
Prototyping: A Practitioner's Guide 3.72 avg rating — 413 ratings
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Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences
Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences 3.70 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works
Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works 4.07 avg rating — 1,310 ratings
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Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design
Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design 4.02 avg rating — 826 ratings
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Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action
Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action 3.89 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Designing For The Social Web
Designing For The Social Web 3.94 avg rating — 520 ratings
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Product Design for the Web: Principles of Designing & Releasing Web Products
Product Design for the Web: Principles of Designing & Releasing Web Products 3.76 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction
Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction 3.52 avg rating — 179 ratings
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This is Service Design Thinking: Basics – Tools – Cases
This is Service Design Thinking: Basics – Tools – Cases 3.99 avg rating — 1,921 ratings
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Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences
Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences 4.11 avg rating — 5,560 ratings
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Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age
Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age 4.13 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Brand Gap, The
Brand Gap, The 3.99 avg rating — 5,448 ratings
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Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages
Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages 3.75 avg rating — 436 ratings
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The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems 4.03 avg rating — 1,043 ratings
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Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design
Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design 4.04 avg rating — 771 ratings
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Search Patterns: Design for Discovery
Search Patterns: Design for Discovery 3.86 avg rating — 292 ratings
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Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things 3.95 avg rating — 5,395 ratings