A well-rounded book list for Designers, Design Leaders & Product Managers

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A well-rounded book list for Designers, Design Leaders & Product Managers

Here’s a list of book recommendations for people who contribute to the creation of digital products and/or services.

It spans topics from user research to design to psychology and business and innovation — covering a broad spectrum that I feel can make any design practitioner, design leader or product manager more well-rounded in today’s landscape.

The Book List

“The Design of Everyday things” — Don Norman

“Just Enough Research” — Erika Hall

“The Elements of User Experience” — Jesse James Garrett

“Articulating Design Decisions” — Tom Greever

“The Best Interface is No Interface” — Golden Krishna

“Don’t Make Me Think” Steve Krug

“Design Leadership: How Top Design leaders Build & Grow Successful Organizations” — Richard Banfield

“Emotional Design” Don Norman

“Designing For Emotion” — Aarron Walter

“Sprint” — Jake Knapp

“Mobile First” — Luke Wroblewski

“Content Strategy for Mobile” — Karen McGrane

“Org Design for Design Orgs” — Kristin Skinner and Peter Merholz

“UX Strategy” — Jaime Levy

“Lean UX” — Jeff Gothelf

“UX for Lean Startups” — Klein

“Lean Analytics” — Alistair Croll

“Universal Principles of Design” — William Lidwell

“Observing the User Experience” — Goodman, Kuniavsky, Moed

“User Experience Management” —Arnie Lund

“Heads First: HTML with CSS and XHTML” — Freeman & Freeman

“Lean Enterprise” — Jez Humble

“A project guide to UX Design” — Unger and Chandler

“Service Design” — Polaine, Lovile and Reason

“User Story Mapping” — Patton

“Designing Interfaces” — Tidwell (The one with the duck on the cover)

“100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People” — Susan Weinschenk

“The Inmates are running the asylum” — Alan Cooper

“Envisioning Information” — Edward Tufte

“Inspired” — Marty Cagan

“The Lean Product Playbook” — Dan Olsen

“The Innovator’s Solution” — Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor

“Hooked” — Nir Eyal

“Creativity Inc” — Edwin Catmull

“Change By Design” — Tim Brown

“Mindset” — Carol Dweck

“Blink” — Malcolm Gladwell

“A More Beautiful Question” — Warren Berger

“The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less” — Barry Schwartz

“Flow: The psychology of optimal experience” — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“How to Win Friends and Influence People” — Dale Carnegie

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Have other books that you’d add to this list or recommend? Leave them in the comments!