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A collection of books which are essential reads for designers at all levels, covering a wide range of topics and skills.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

Susan Weinschenk

Change by Design

Change by Design

Tim Brown

Click!

Click!

Strategies for ethical design that encourages user engagement.

Design Systems & DesignOps in the Enterprise

Design Systems & DesignOps in the Enterprise

UXPin, Whitespace

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Steve Krug

Expressive Design Systems

Expressive Design Systems

Yesenia Perez-Cruz

Generating Product Ideas: Actionable Techniques for Finding New Business Ideas

Generating Product Ideas: Actionable Techniques for Finding New Business Ideas

Artiom Dashinsky

Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success

Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success

Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal

How to design intuitive, user-centered interfaces by focusing on effective communication

How to design intuitive, user-centered interfaces by focusing on effective communication

Everett McKay

INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

Marty Cagan

Laws of UX: The Book

Laws of UX: The Book

Applying psychology in design for better products and services.

Lean UX

Lean UX

Jeff Gothelf with Josh Seiden

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Chip and Dan Heath

Ruined By Design

Ruined By Design

Mike Monteiro

Shape Up - Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters

Shape Up - Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters

Ryan Singer

Solving Product Design Exercises: Questions & Answers

Solving Product Design Exercises: Questions & Answers

Artiom Dashinsky

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Jake Knapp

The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO

The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO

Tom Kelley

The Best Interface Is No Interface: The simple path to brilliant technology

The Best Interface Is No Interface: The simple path to brilliant technology

Golden Krishna

The Design of Everyday Things

The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman

The Digital Product Handbook

The Digital Product Handbook

3steban - Product Crafters

The Laws of Simplicity

The Laws of Simplicity

John Maeda

The Path to Senior Product Designer

The Path to Senior Product Designer

Practical steps to grow a UX design career.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

User Friendly

User Friendly

Exploring the unseen rules of design and their impact on life and work.

UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want

UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want

Jaime Levy

Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want

Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want

A. Osterwalder, Y. Pigneur, G. Bernarda, A. Smith

Well-Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love

Well-Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love

Jon Kolko

Wireframing for Everyone

Wireframing for Everyone

Michael Angeles, Leon Barnard, and Billy Carlson

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