Reading List

2025

[In Progress] Digital Modeling by William Vaughan

Designing Interface Animation: Improving the User Experience Through Animation by Val Head

Refactoring UI by Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger

Practical UI by Adham Dannaway

Planned Reads

Digital Modeling by William Vaughan

Permissionless: A Manifesto for the Future of Everything by J.A. Westenberg

Design for Motion: Fundamentals and Techniques of Motion Design by Austin Shaw

About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann & and Dave Cronin

Product Management for UX People by Christian Crumlish

The Jobs To Be Done Playbook by Jim Kalbach

Build Better Products by Laura Klein

Design that Scales by Dan Mall

2024

Beautiful Visualization by Julie Steele & Noah Iliinsky

Better Portfolio by Artiom Dashinksy

2023

The Path to Senior Product Designer: An Actionable Growth Plan for a UX Design Career by Artiom Dashinsky

Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience by Tom Greever

2022

A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences by Sarah Horton, Whitney Quesenbery, & Aaron Gustafson

Start with Why by Simon Sinek

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield & Shawn Coyne

2021

UX Magic by Daniel Rosenberg

Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler

Computers as Theatre by Brenda Laurel

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People by Susan Weinschenk

The User’s Journey: Storymapping Products People Love by Donna Lichaw (2016)

Orchestrating Experiences: Collaborative Design for Complexity by Chris Risdon & Patrick Quattlebaum

Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights by Steve Portigal

Writing Is Designing: Words and the User Experience by Michael J. Metts, Andy Welfle, & Nick Madden

Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, & Jill Butler

2020

Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Guidelines by Jeff Johnson & Morgan Kaufmann

Designing for People: An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering by John D. Lee, Christopher D. Wickens, Yili Liu, & Linda Ng Boyle

Designing and Conducting Ethnographic Research: An Introduction by Margaret D. LeCompte & Jean J. Schensul

Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes by Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, & Linda L. Shaw

Engineering Psychology and Human Performance by Christopher D. Wickens, Justin G. Hollands, Simon Banbury, & Raja Parasuraman

Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction by Helen Sharp, Jennifer Preece, & Yvonne Rogers

2019

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 by Michael Beirut

Cognition: Theories and Applications by Stephen K. Reed

Sensation & Perception by Jeremy M. Wolfe et al.

2018

Branded Interactions: Creating the Digital Experience by Marco Spies

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug

Just Enough Research by Erica Hall

Thinking Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman

2017

Hooked by Nir Eyal

The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

The Atomic Chef: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error by Steven Casey

2016

Graphic Design: A New History by Stephen J. Eskilson

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath & Dan Heath