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| 1 | +Article written by - [uxui.Abdulhussain](https://www.instagram.com/uxui.abdulhussain/) |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +# **My Top Ten** |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +1. [The Design of Everyday Things](http://amzn.to/2xpu01E), Donald Norman |
| 6 | +2. [About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design](http://amzn.to/2xoN7bM), Alan Cooper |
| 7 | +3. [The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond](http://amzn.to/2ePoABG), Jesse James Garrett |
| 8 | +4. [The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide](http://amzn.to/2jfCrX2), Leah Buley |
| 9 | +5. [Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind](http://amzn.to/2je3NMU), Jocelyn K. Glei, 99u |
| 10 | +6. [A Practical Guide to Information Architecture](http://amzn.to/2xoNbIy), Donna Spencer |
| 11 | +7. [Designing Together: The collaboration and conflict management handbook for creative professionals](http://amzn.to/2xpa9Q5), Dan M. Brown |
| 12 | +8. [Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences](http://amzn.to/2wTwuUo), Stephen Anderson |
| 13 | +9. [100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People](http://amzn.to/2ePei4r), Susan Weinschenk |
| 14 | +10. [Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience](http://amzn.to/2ePGGmU), Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +# **More Must-Reads On Thinking, Methods, Principles and Best Practices** |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +I find it helpful to choose what to read based on what's relevant at the time. Applying what you're reading, as you're _thinking_ and _making_ is a great way to solidify concepts, reflect and learn. |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +Some old, some new. All important reading, in no particular order. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +_Last updated 09/10/2017_ |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +- [The Shape of Design](http://amzn.to/2xp1IEe), Frank Chimero |
| 25 | +- [Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior](http://amzn.to/2eYaukY), Indi Young |
| 26 | +- [Practical Empathy: For Collaboration and Creativity in Your Work](http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/practical-empathy/), Indi Young |
| 27 | +- [Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights](http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/interviewing-users/), Steve Portigal |
| 28 | +- [Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions](http://amzn.to/2xpnfNa), Bill Scott, Theresa Neil |
| 29 | +- [The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)](http://amzn.to/2vYhKEV), John Maeda |
| 30 | +- [Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing for the Web and Beyond](http://amzn.to/2xpz1qM), Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld, Jorge Arango |
| 31 | +- [Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook](http://amzn.to/2ePeXCY), Saul Greenberg, Sheelagh Carpendale , Nicolai Marquardt, Bill Buxton |
| 32 | +- [Well Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love](http://amzn.to/2xpbkPv), Jon Kolko |
| 33 | +- [Thoughts on Interaction Design](http://amzn.to/2gWiXWF), Jon Kolko |
| 34 | +- [Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?](http://amzn.to/2gVp25y), Seth Godin |
| 35 | +- [Don't Make Me Think](http://amzn.to/2jgCrWG) AND [Rocket Surgery Made Easy](http://amzn.to/2xp43zh), Steve Krug |
| 36 | +- [Designing Interfaces](http://amzn.to/2eX5AVt), Jennifer Tidwell |
| 37 | +- [Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests](http://amzn.to/2gV7KFQ), Jeffrey Rubin, Dana Chisnell |
| 38 | +- [Designing Interactions](http://amzn.to/2xpooUY), Bill Moggridge |
| 39 | +- [The Visual Display of Quantitative Information](http://amzn.to/2xoY25w) AND [Envisioning Information](http://amzn.com/0961392118), Edward R. Tufte |
| 40 | +- [A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making](http://amzn.to/2eYgkmt), Russ Unger & Carolyn Chandler |
| 41 | +- [Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers](http://amzn.to/2gWSUyp), Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo |
| 42 | +- [The Mobile Frontier: A Guide for Designing Mobile Experiences](http://amzn.to/2gV6MFV), Rachel Hinman |
| 43 | +- [Design Is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable](http://amzn.to/2eYbuFK), Nathan Shedroff |
| 44 | +- [Prototyping: A Practitioner's Guide](http://amzn.to/2eXnx6o), Todd Zaki Warfel |
| 45 | +- [Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences](http://amzn.to/2eQvTJo), Steve Diller, Nathan Shedroff, Darrel Rhea |
| 46 | +- [Content Strategy for the Web](http://amzn.to/2wjuUrh), by Kristina Halvorson, Melissa Rach |
| 47 | +- [Just Enough Research](http://amzn.to/2gULTOx), Erika Hall |
| 48 | +- [Design Is A Job](http://amzn.to/2ePBv6r), Mike Monteiro |
| 49 | +- [Designing for Emotion](http://amzn.to/2eYj2bs), Aaron Walter |
| 50 | +- [Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills](http://amzn.to/2wTUJls), David Sherwin |
| 51 | +- [Letting Go of The Words: Writing Web Content that Works](http://amzn.to/2gWTIzw), Janice (Ginny) Redish |
| 52 | +- [Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design](http://amzn.to/2gUlCjx), Robert Hoekman Jr |
| 53 | +- [Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action](http://amzn.to/2fc2uKf), Robert Hoekman Jr |
| 54 | +- [Designing for the Social Web](http://amzn.to/2wTwCDp), Joshua Porter |
| 55 | +- [Undercover User Experience Design](http://amzn.to/2wTO0ro), Cennydd Bowles, James Box |
| 56 | +- [Product Design for the Web: Principles of Designing and Releasing Web Products](http://amzn.to/2eYdwWo), Randy Hunt |
| 57 | +- [Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction](http://amzn.to/2gW18Dn), by Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Maxine Cohen, Steven Jacobs |
| 58 | +- [This is Service Design Thinking: Basics, Tools, Cases](http://amzn.to/2wTKLQT), Marc Stickdorn, Jakob Schneider |
| 59 | +- [Resonate: Present Visual Stories That Transform Audiences](http://amzn.to/2wjim3n), Nancy Duarte |
| 60 | +- [Metaskills: 5 Talents for the Robotic Age](http://amzn.to/2wjlM69), Marty Neumeier |
| 61 | +- [The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design](http://amzn.to/2xp5OfA), Marty Neumeier |
| 62 | +- [Getting Real](http://amzn.to/2wiXFV9) AND [Rework](http://amzn.to/2wjxOw9), 37 Signals, Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson |
| 63 | +- [The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems](http://amzn.to/2eXbN3A), Jef Raskin |
| 64 | +- [Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design](http://amzn.to/2eYk9rU), Giles Colborne |
| 65 | +- [Search Patterns: Design for Discovery](http://amzn.to/2xpmaoD), Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender |
| 66 | +- [Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things](http://amzn.to/2eXa26D), Don Norman |
| 67 | +- [Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click?](http://amzn.to/2eYzVTF) Susan Weinschenk |
| 68 | +- [Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services](http://amzn.to/2xp2Ac5), Kim Goodwin |
| 69 | +- [A Web For Everyone](http://amzn.to/2gVzXMy), Sarah Horton, Whitney Quesenbery |
| 70 | +- [How to Make Sense of Any Mess](http://amzn.to/2fcUhp3), Abby Covert |
| 71 | +- [Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results](http://amzn.to/2vZ0VtA), Christina Wodtke |
| 72 | +- [Org Design for Design Orgs: Building and Managing In-House Design Teams](http://amzn.to/2gVjNms), Peter Merholz, Kristin Skinner |
| 73 | +- [Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning](http://amzn.to/2xpEcXU), Dan M. Brown |
| 74 | +- [Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World](http://amzn.to/2xpb1UQ), Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, Brandon Schauer, David Verba |
| 75 | +- [Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products](http://amzn.to/2gUH73F), Nir Eyal |
| 76 | +- [The 46 Rules of Genius: An Innovator's Guide to Creativity](http://amzn.to/2xYyF7K), Marty Neumeier |
| 77 | +- [Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days](http://amzn.to/2xpyCVi), Braden Kowitz, Jake Knapp, and John Zeratsky |
| 78 | +- [Designing with Data: Improving the User Experience with A/B Testing](http://amzn.to/2eXHj1l), Rochelle King, Elizabeth F Churchill, Caitlin Tan |
| 79 | +- [Banish Your Inner Critic: Silence the Voice of Self-Doubt to Unleash Your Creativity and Do Your Best Work](http://amzn.to/2gXj9oj), Denise Jacobs |
| 80 | +- [Design for Real Life](http://amzn.to/2eYT3AN), Eric Meyer & Sara Wachter-Boettcher |
| 81 | +- [Designing Interface Animation: Meaningful Motion for User Experience](http://amzn.to/2wjcNC0), Val Head |
| 82 | +- [Practical Design Discovery](http://amzn.to/2wjj1lf), Dan Brown |
| 83 | +- [On Web Typography](http://amzn.to/2gV03PE), By Jason Santa Maria |
| 84 | +- [Designing Voice User Interfaces: Principles of Conversational Experiences](http://amzn.to/2xoPxr5), Cathy Pearl |
| 85 | +- [Thinking in Systems: A Primer](http://amzn.to/2gWnu7U), Donella H. Meadows |
| 86 | +- [Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All](http://amzn.to/2eXO8Al), Tom Kelley, David Kelley |
| 87 | + |
| 88 | +# **More Useful Reading** |
| 89 | + |
| 90 | +Reading books is only a partial source of my inspiration and learning. I also frequently read blogs and articles. I highly recommend staying connected to these sources of great thought leadership: |
| 91 | + |
| 92 | +- [Eleganthack](http://eleganthack.com/), |
| 93 | +[Christina Wodtke](https://medium.com/u/b8250db9473?source=post_page-----d420edb3f4ff--------------------------------) |
| 94 | +- [Peter Merholz](http://www.peterme.com/) |
| 95 | +- [The Year of the Looking Glass](https://medium.com/the-year-of-the-looking-glass), |
| 96 | +[Julie Zhuo](https://medium.com/u/b8a4e5ae7490?source=post_page-----d420edb3f4ff--------------------------------) |
| 97 | +- [Bokardo](http://bokardo.com/about/), Joshua Porter |
| 98 | +- [Information Architects](https://ia.net/know-how), Oliver Reichenstein |
| 99 | +- [Felt Presence](http://feltpresence.com/), Ryan Singer |
| 100 | +- [Whitney Hess](http://whitneyhess.com/blog/) |
| 101 | +- [Disambiguity](http://www.disambiguity.com/), Leisa Reichelt |
| 102 | +- [Form and Function](http://www.lukew.com/ff/), Luke Wroblewski |
| 103 | +- [Frank Chimero](http://frankchimero.com/) |
| 104 | +- [Aral Balkan](https://aralbalkan.com/) |
| 105 | +- [David Cole](http://davidcole.me/) |
| 106 | +- [Seth Godin](http://sethgodin.typepad.com/) |
| 107 | +- [Scott Berkun](http://scottberkun.com/blog/) |
| 108 | +- [Intercom](http://blog.intercom.io/) |
| 109 | +- [Google Ventures Design Library](https://library.gv.com/tagged/design) |
| 110 | +- [Adaptive Path](http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/) |
| 111 | +- [Boxes and Arrows](http://boxesandarrows.com/) |
| 112 | +- [UXmatters](http://www.uxmatters.com/) |
| 113 | +- [UIE Brainsparks](http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/) |
| 114 | +- [UX Magazine](http://uxmag.com/) |
| 115 | +- [UX Booth](http://www.uxbooth.com/) |
| 116 | +- [A List Apart](http://alistapart.com/) |
| 117 | +- [Smashing Magazine](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/) |
| 118 | +- [Signal vs. Noise](https://signalvnoise.com/), |
| 119 | +[Basecamp](https://medium.com/u/3f51e0e5b209?source=post_page-----d420edb3f4ff--------------------------------) |
| 120 | +- [52 Weeks of UX](http://52weeksofux.com/) |
| 121 | +- [Interaction Design Foundation Library of Resources](https://www.interaction-design.org/literature) |
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