Khoa Nguyen
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Best UX Design Books you should read in 2023 + Download Links

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Mega list

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roadmap

read these first

Fundamental books will give you a feel for what UX design is all about. The essential reading list includes following books:

  • The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
  • Designing for Interaction by Dan Saffer
  • 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People by Susan Weinschenk
  • Dont Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
  • About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper.

Checklist

Kickstart

  • The Design of Everyday Things

Working in small design team

  • The User Experience Team of One
  • Just Enough Research

Leadership and Design Management

  • The Making of a Manager

Into Product Management

  • Insprired
  • Zero To One

Want to learn basic Visual Design

  • The non designer Design book
  • Universal Principles of Design

Design that influences human behaviors

  • Hooked
  • 100 Things Every Designer Needs to know about people

Usability

  • Dont Make Me Think
  • Measuring the User Experience

Win design challenge for UX job

  • Solving Product Design exercises

Understand the core of UX

Human Computer Interaction

  • Interaction Design
  • About face

Strategic UX

  • The Elements of User Experience

Information Architecture

  • Information Architecture
  • DesigningTheSearchExperience

Research

  • Observing the User Experience
  • Research methods in human-computer interaction

Run a UX Project

  • Project Guide to UX Design
  • Sprint
  • UX for lean startups

transition from dev to designer

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  • Design Thinking
  • Usability
  • Accessibility
  • Information Architecture
  • Wireframe
  • Responsive Design