I’ve posted several updates to my Monster List of UX Books over the past 8 months, but I wanted to put them in a more visible format. I also wanted to highlight new and upcoming books. To that end, I collected these items into this post. I plan to do more of these posts as I continue to make updates, so let me know if you find this helpful.
Recently Added Book Lists
35 Books Every Designer Should Read by Vincent van der Meulen
The Essential UX Library by UXcellence
Service Design Books by Jacquelyn Brioux
9 Amazing Books That Go Beyond UX Design by Laura Yarrow
Newly Released Books
January
This Is Service Design Doing: Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World by Marc Stickdorn, Markus Edgar Hormeß, Adam Lawrence, and Jakob Schneider
March
Meeting Design: For Managers, Makers, and Everyone by Kevin M. Hoffman
Conversational Design by Erika Hall
April
The Design Thinking Playbook: Mindful Digital Transformation of Teams, Products, Services, Businesses and Ecosystems by Michael Lewrick
Designing Across Senses: A Multimodal Approach to Product Design by Christine Park and John Alderman
May
Orchestrating Experiences: Collaborative Design for Complexity by Chris Risdon and Patrick Quattlebaum
This Is Service Design Methods: A Companion to This Is Service Design Doing by Marc Stickdorn, Markus Edgar Hormeß, Adam Lawrence, and Jakob Schneider
June
Living in Information: Responsible Design for Digital Places by Jorge Arango
July
Flexible Typesetting by Tim Brown
September
Enterprise Design Sprints by Richard Banfield
Future Ethics by Cennydd Bowles
Book Reviews by Users
The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
"An excellent introduction to user centered design. A must read for all aspiring UXers."
- Hawk, Rating: 5/5
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
"This book is great for first-time managers and other creative professionals looking to strengthen collaborative processes like design reviews."
- Taylor Palmer, Rating: 5/5
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper
"Although it's almost two decades old, Alan Cooper's handbook of user-centered design remains relevant. The fundamentals concepts around scenario planning, personas, user goals, tasks, and completion as the basics of interaction design are as important today as they were in the Web 1.0 era."
- Miguel Gonzalez, Rating: 4/5
"An excellent overview of interaction design and the Goal-Directed Design (GDD) process. Kim Goodwin takes the time to unpack each phase of the GDD process explaining how each works and showing how it all connects together. On our team this book is given to every UX/Interaction Designer."
- Grant Baker, Rating: 5/5
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