Design Resources

Books 

• The Messy Middle by Scott Belsky 

• Change by Design by Tim Brown

• Insanely Simple by Ken Segall

• Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda

• Creative Confidence by Tom and David Kelley

• Living with Complexity by Donald Norman

• Usability Engineering by Jakob Nielson

• The Design of Future Things by Donald Norman

• The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander

• Emotional Design by Donald Norman

• Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge

• Information Architecture for the World Wide Web

• The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman

• Observing the User Experience by Elizabeth Goodman

• Handbook of Emotions

• Human Computer Interaction by Alan Dix

• Human Computer Interaction by Scott Mackenzie

• Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction by Claude Ghaoui

• Human Computer Interaction by Andrew Sears and Julie Jacko

• The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin

• Practical Typography by Matthew Butterick

• Measuring the User Experience by Bill Albert

• Beautiful Evidence by Edward Tufte

• The UX Book by Rex Hartson

• Persuasive Technology by BJ Fogg

• Designing with the Mind in Mind by Jeff Johnson

• Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications by John Anderson

• Elements of Graphic Design by Alex White

• Typographic Design by Rob Carter

• From Tool to Partner by Jonathan Grudin

• About Face by Alan Cooper

• Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell

• Field Guide to Human Centered Design by IDEO

• Sprint by Jake Knapp

• Hooked by Eyal Nir

• Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug

• Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte

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

• Killer UX Design by Jodie Moule

• Interaction Design: Beyond Human Computer Interaction by Yvonne Rogers

• Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug

• Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights by Steve Portigal

• Shape Up by Basecamp

• Visual Usability by Tania Schlatter

• Think Like a UX Researcher by David Travis

• The Elements of the User Experience by Jesse James Grant

• Technology as Experience by John McCarthy

• Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton

• To Engineer is Human by Henry Petroski

• Success Through Failure by Henry Petroski

• The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski

• Invention by Design by Henry Petroski

• Dieter Rams by Klaus Klemp

• Less but Better by Dieter Rams

• Less and More by Klaus Klemp

• Dieter Rams: Ten Principles for Good Design by Cees W. De Jong

• The Art of Game Design by Jesse Schell

• Level Up by Scott Rogers

• A Theory of Fun by Raph Koster

• Rules of Play by Katie Tekinbas

• Game Mechanics by Ernest Adams

• Fundamentals of Game Design by Ernest Adams

• Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky

• Laws of UX by Jon Yablonski

• User Friendly by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant

• Lean UX by Josh Seiden

• Solving Product Design Exercises by Artiom Dashinsky

• Designing Interfaces by Jennifer Tidwell

• Inspired by Marty Cagan

• Build by Tony Fadell

• Storytelling with Data by Cole Knaflic

• Crossing the Chasm by Geoffry Moore

• 7 Powers by Hamilton Helmer

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

• The Things We Love by Aaron Ahuvia

• Research for Designers by Gjoko Muratovski

• Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital by Carlota Perez

• The Right It by Alberto Savoia

• The Design Way by Harold Nelson

• Seductive Interaction Design by Stephen P. Anderson

• Designing for Behavior Change by Stephen Wendel

• Invention: A Life by James Dyson

• Exposing the Magic of Design by Jon Kolko

• Amp it Up by Frank Slootman

• Japanese Design Since 1945 by Naomi Pollock

Papers

• The Essence of Enjoyable Experiences

• A Behavior Model for Persuasive Design

• Three Paradigms of HCI

• Scenario Based Design

• Paper Prototyping

• Mental Models in Human Computer Interaction

• Contextual Design

• Breaking Affordance

• Evaluating Experience Focused HCI

• Being Human: HCI in the Year 2020

• Human Computer Interaction: Psychology as a Science of Design

• What is Beautiful is Usable

• Activity Theory and Human Computer Interaction

• HCI Models, Theories and Frameworks

• The Thing and I

• User Experience

• The Logic of Invention

Design Inspiration 

• Godly

• Resource

• Land-book

• Dribbble

• Mobbin

• Interface Futures

Newsletters

• Lenny’s Newsletter 

• Better by Design

• Nielson Norman Group

• Proof of Concept

• Technically

• ui.land

Miscellaneous 

• Participatory Design

• Human Computer Interaction Course Notes

• Human Computer Interaction Lecture Notes

• Human Computer Interaction Lecture Notes

• Human Computer Interaction Lecture Notes

• IDEO Method Cards

• Lessons.design

Blogs / Articles  

• The Design of Everyday Things Book Summary

• First Principles of Interaction Design

• Invisible Details of Interaction Design 

• Why Figma Wins

• No More Boring Apps