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2020 - 2024

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What every designer should have on their bookshelves, podcasts, and reading lists.

Educational Books

Interdisciplinary Interaction Design: A Visual Guide to Basic Theories, Models and Ideas for Thinking and Designing for Interactive Web Design and Digital Device Experiences
UX Design and Usability Mentor Book: With Best Practice Business Analysis and User Interface Design Tips and Techniques
UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want
Type on Screen: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Developers, and Students (Design Briefs)
Research for Designers: A Guide to Methods and Practice
How to Use Graphic Design to Sell Things, Explain Things, Make Things Look Better, Make People Laugh, Make People Cry, and (Every Once in a While) Change the World
Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams
Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook
The Practitioner's Guide to User Experience Design
Evil by Design: Interaction Design to Lead Us into Temptation
From Start-Up to Grown-Up: Grow Your Leadership to Grow Your Business
Designing Multi-Device Experiences: An Ecosystem Approach to User Experiences across Devices
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
UX Simplified: Models & Methodologies
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience
100 More Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter)
Org Design for Design Orgs: Building and Managing In-House Design Teams
INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)

Inspirational Books

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
Creativity, Inc.: an inspiring look at how creativity can - and should - be harnessed for business success by the founder of Pixar
Crystallizing Public Opinion
The Design Of Everyday Things
Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career (99U)

Personal Favorites

The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life
The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
Graphic: 500 Designs that Matter

Favorite Podcasts

Where to Learn
Bruce Mau: MC24: Bruce Mau's 24 Principles for Designing Massive Change in your Life and Work
Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition)
Change by Design, Revised and Updated: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Favorite Online Reading
Branding Terror: The Logotypes and Iconography of Insurgent Groups and Terrorist Organizations
Mid-Century Ads
Designed in the USSR: 1950-1989
Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Start-Up Nation
Do the F*cking Work: Lowbrow Advice for High-Level Creativity
The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Beating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization
Perception: An Introduction To The Gestalt Theory: A Classic Article in the History of Psychology
Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color
Gestalt Psychology An Introduction to New Concepts in Modern Psychology
Web Design: The Evolution of the Digital World 1990-Today