Reading list
Books, articles, talks and tools on design, people and better ways of working.
Books
Highly recommended in bold.
UX & Product Design
- Sprint: How To Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days - Jake Knapp
- Gamestorming - Gray, Brown, Macanufo
- How to make sense of any mess - Abby Covert
- 100 Things Every Designer Should Know About People - Susan Weinschenk
- 100 More Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People - Susan Weinschenk
- How to Get People to Do Stuff - Susan Weinschenk
- Lean UX - Jeff Gothelf
User Psychology
- Tiny Habits - BJ Fogg
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products - Nir Eyal
- Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability - Steve Krug
- Nudge - Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions - Dan Ariely
- Thinking fast and slow - Daniel Kahneman
- Alchemy - Rory Sutherland
Leadership & Communication
- Resonate - Nancy Duarte
- The Making of a Manager - Julie Zhuo
- Dare to Lead - Brene Brown
- Daring Greatly - Brene Brown
- Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for talking when stakes are high - Grenny, Paterson, McMillan, Switzler, Gregory
- Supercommunicators - Charles Duhigg
- The Next Conversation - Jefferson Fisher
Personal Development & Decision Making
- Switch: How to change things when change is hard - Chip Heath & Dan Heath
- Decisive: How to make better choices in life and work - Chip Heath & Dan Heath
- Made to Stick - Chip Heath & Dan Heath
- Think Again - Adam Grant
- Upstream: How to solve problems before they happen - Dan Heath
- Alchemy - Rory Sutherland
- Make Time - Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky
Blogs
Articles
- Collaboration in the User Experience Design Process - Designmodo
- A Guide To Heuristic Website Reviews | Smashing UX Design
- Optimizing UI icons for faster recognition « Boxes and Arrows
- How Do Users Really Hold Mobile Devices? :: UXmatters
- Top 5 Ironclad Banner Ad Best Practices | SingleHop
- Infographic: 5 Tips for a More Successful Call to Action | SingleHop
- Creating Mental Models
- Click, Tap, and Touch: A Guide to CTA Best Practices | Litmus
- Cognitive Biases - Business Insider
- What UX Methods to Use and When to Use Them: Measuring Usability
- User Experience Design
- A No-Fail Process For Writing Landing Page Copy That Converts | Unbounce
- Revisiting Proto-Personas for Executive Alignment | UX Magazine
- B.F. Skinner | Operant Conditioning | Simply Psychology
- Game reward systems
- Gestural Interfaces: A Step Backwards In Usability - jnd.org
- Why user personas are not enough
- 20 Product Prioritization Techniques: A Map and Guided Tour
Workshops
Forms
UI Patterns
Talks
- Simon Coxon: Pitching and presenting your Ideas effectively
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the secret to happiness | TED Talk | TED.com
- David Eagleman: Can we create new senses for humans? | TED Talk | TED.com
- Hugh Herr: The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance | TED Talk | TED.com
- Neil Burgess: How your brain tells you where you are | TED Talk
- Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness | TED Talk
- Pawan Sinha: How brains learn to see | TED Talk
- Michael Merzenich: Growing evidence of brain plasticity | TED Talk
- Mary Lou Jepsen: Could future devices read images from our brains? | TED Talk
- Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight | TED Talk
- Anatomy of a neuron (video) | Human biology | Khan Academy
- Advanced nervous system physiology | Health and medicine | Khan Academy
- The structure of the eye (video) | Khan Academy
- BJ Fogg - Why Tiny Habits Give Big Results | Interactive 2013 | SXSW - YouTube
- BJ Fogg - Forget big change, start with a tiny habit | TEDxFremont - YouTube
- Nir Eyal - What makes some technology so habit-forming? | TED Talk
- Rory Sutherland - Perspective is everything | TED Talk