Great books for UX people

Jens Wedin
4 min readOct 23, 2017

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I asked UX people in Sweden what work related books they would recommend, this is what they wrote.

Lean UX

https://www.amazon.com/Lean-UX-Applying-Principles-Experience/dp/1449311652

User story mapping

https://www.amazon.com/User-Story-Mapping-Discover-Product/dp/1491904909

Thinking fast and slow

https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555

Don’t make me think

https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability/dp/0321965515

This is Service Design Thinking

https://www.amazon.com/This-Service-Design-Thinking-Basics/dp/1118156307

Creative Confidence

https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Confidence-Unleashing-Potential-Within/dp/038534936X

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

https://www.amazon.com/Sprint-Solve-Problems-Test-Ideas/dp/150112174X

Nudge

https://www.amazon.com/Nudge-Improving-Decisions-Health-Happiness

Team of Teams

https://www.amazon.com/Team-Teams-Rules-Engagement-Complex/dp/1591847486

Business Model Generation

https://www.amazon.com/Business-Model-Generation-Visionaries-Challengers/dp/0470876417

Designing for interaction

https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Interactions-Press-Bill-Moggridge/dp/0262134748

Jävla skitsystem

https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/javla-skitsystem-hur-en-usel-digital-arbetsmiljo-stressar-oss-pa-jobbet-9789187207525

Quick brainstorming activities for busy managers

https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Brainstorming-Activities-Busy-Managers/dp/0814417922

Interaktionsdesign och UX : om att skapa en god användarupplevelse

https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/interaktionsdesign-och-ux-om-att-skapa-en-god-anvandarupplevelse-9789144097640

Designing for situation awareness

https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Situation-Awareness-Approach-User-Centered/dp/1420063553

Idea agent

https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Agent-Handbook-Creative-Processes/dp/0415824141

Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits

https://www.amazon.com/Brand-Thinking-Other-Noble-Pursuits/dp/162153247X

Product Leadership

https://www.amazon.com/Product-Leadership-Managers-Products-Successful/dp/1491960604

The best Interface is no interface

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Interface-No-brilliant-technology/dp/0133890333

About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design

https://www.amazon.com/About-Face-Essentials-Interaction-Design/dp/1118766571

Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population

https://www.amazon.com/Designing-User-Interfaces-Aging-Population/dp/0128044675

Build better products

https://www.amazon.com/Build-Better-Products-Successful-User-Centered/dp/1933820586

Service Design — From Insight to Implementation

https://www.amazon.com/Service-Design-Implementation-Andy-Polaine/dp/1933820330

Strategi är ett verb

https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/strategi-ar-ett-verb-en-bok-om-smarta-organisationer-beteende-och-hur-framgang-kan-foda-nedgang-9789147116553

Inclusive design patterns

https://www.amazon.com/Inclusive-Design-Patterns-Heydon-Pickering-ebook/dp/B01MAXK8XR

Kreativ när piskan viner

https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/kreativ-nar-piskan-viner-pusselbiten-som-saknas-i-lean-9789187905155

Sense & Respond

http://senseandrespond.co/

The User Experience Team of One

https://www.amazon.com/User-Experience-Team-One-Research/dp/1933820187

Hooked — how to build habit forming products

https://www.amazon.com/Hooked-How-Build-Habit-Forming-Products/dp/1591847788

Linkography: Unfolding the design process

https://www.amazon.com/Linkography-Unfolding-Design-Process-Thinking/dp/0262027194

You’re my favorite client

https://www.amazon.com/Youre-Favorite-Client-Mike-Monteiro/dp/1937557146

The upside of irrationality

https://www.amazon.com/Upside-Irrationality-Unexpected-Benefits-Defying/dp/0061995045

Design is the problem

https://www.amazon.com/Design-Problem-Future-Must-Sustainable/dp/1933820004

Mapping Experiences

https://www.amazon.com/Mapping-Experiences-Complete-Creating-Blueprints/dp/1491923539

Methods of Persuasion

https://www.amazon.com/Methods-Persuasion-Psychology-Influence-Behavior/dp/0615815650

Simple and usable

https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Usable-Mobile-Interaction-Design/dp/0321703545

What the foresight?

https://www.amazon.com/What-Foresight-personal-explored-preferred/dp/1537424866

Black Swan

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Improbable-Robustness-Fragility/dp/081297381X

Sapiens

https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316095

Industrie 4.0

https://www.amazon.com/Industry-4-0-Managing-Transformation-Manufacturing/dp/3319578693

Animation at work

https://abookapart.com/products/animation-at-work

On Web Typography

https://www.amazon.com/Web-Typography-Maria-Jason-Santa/dp/1937557065

UX for Lean Startups

https://www.amazon.com/UX-Lean-Startups-Experience-Research/dp/1449334911

Lean vs Agile vs Design thinking

https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Agile-Design-Thinking-High-Performing/dp/0999476912

Game storming

https://www.amazon.com/Gamestorming-Playbook-Innovators-Rulebreakers-Changemakers/dp/0596804172

Quantifying the user experience

https://www.amazon.com/Quantifying-User-Experience-Second-Statistics/dp/0128023082

Att leda digital transformation

https://www.bokus.com/bok/9789175578620/att-leda-digital-transformation/

101 design methods

https://www.amazon.com/101-Design-Methods-Structured-Organization/dp/1118083466

Designing of everyday things

https://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Revised-Expanded/dp/0465050654

Designing connected products

https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Connected-Products-Consumer-Internet/dp/1449372562

Seductive interaction design

https://www.amazon.com/Seductive-Interaction-Design-Effective-Experiences/dp/0321725522

Interaction Design

https://www.amazon.com/Interaction-Design-Beyond-Human-Computer/dp/1119020751

Card sorting

https://www.amazon.com/Card-Sorting-Designing-Usable-Categories/dp/1933820020

The Field Study Handbook

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1939727065/ref=as_li_ss_tl?m=A2BI7L8S7A3VNH

Service innovation handbook

https://www.amazon.com/Service-Innovation-Handbook-Action-oriented-Organizations/dp/9063693532

Over the brink

https://www.amazon.com/Brink-Fresh-Lens-Business-Heights/dp/1626342806

You are my favorite client

https://www.amazon.com/Youre-Favorite-Client-Mike-Monteiro/dp/1937557146

Influence

https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Robert-Cialdini/dp/006124189X

Value proposition canvas

https://www.amazon.com/Value-Proposition-Design-Customers-Strategyzer/dp/1118968050

Information Architecture

https://www.amazon.com/Information-Architecture-Beyond-Louis-Rosenfeld/dp/1491911689

Rocket Surgery Made Easy

https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Surgery-Made-Easy-Yourself/dp/0321657292

The user is always right

https://www.amazon.com/User-Always-Right-Practical-Creating/dp/0321434536

How to

https://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Design-Things-Explain-Better/dp/0062413902

Originals

https://www.amazon.com/Originals-How-Non-Conformists-Move-World/dp/014312885X

UX Strategy

https://www.amazon.com/UX-Strategy-Innovative-Digital-Products/dp/1449372864

Competing against luck

https://www.amazon.com/Competing-Against-Luck-Innovation-Customer/dp/0062435612

Design research ethics

https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Design-Research-Ethics/dp/0578163039

Predictably irrational

https://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expanded-Decisions/dp/0061353248/

The paradox of choice

https://www.amazon.com/Paradox-Choice-More-Less-Revised/dp/0062449923

Just Enough Research

https://www.amazon.com/Just-Enough-Research-Erika-Hall/dp/1937557103

Effektstyrning av IT

https://www.bokus.com/bok/9789147095865/effektstyrning-av-it-nyttan-uppstar-i-anvandningen/

You should test that

https://www.amazon.com/You-Should-Test-That-Optimization/dp/1118301307

The mobile frontier

https://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Frontier-Guide-Designing-Experiences/dp/1933820551

Designing for touch

https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Touch-Josh-Clark/dp/1937557286

Interviewing users

https://www.amazon.com/Interviewing-Users-Uncover-Compelling-Insights/dp/193382011X

Microinteractions

https://www.amazon.com/Microinteractions-Full-Color-Designing-Details/dp/1491945923

To sell is human

https://www.amazon.com/Sell-Human-Surprising-Moving-Others/dp/1594631905

Change by design

https://www.amazon.com/Change-Design-Transforms-Organizations-Innovation/dp/0061766089

Its our research

https://www.amazon.com/Its-Our-Research-Stakeholder-Buy/dp/0123851300

Impact mapping

https://www.amazon.com/Impact-Mapping-Software-Products-Projects/dp/0955683645

Creativity inc

https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Inspiration/dp/0812993012

Atomic design

http://atomicdesign.bradfrost.com/

The UX Book

https://www.amazon.com/UX-Book-Guidelines-Ensuring-Experience/dp/0123852412

Tändvätska

https://www.adlibris.com/se/e-bok/tandvatska-9789187419560

Inspired

https://www.amazon.com/Inspired-Create-Products-Customers-Love/dp/0981690408/

Inside Google

https://www.amazon.com/How-Google-Works-Eric-Schmidt/dp/1455582328

Design Leadership

https://www.amazon.com/Design-Leadership-Leaders-Successful-Organizations/dp/1491929200

UX for Lean startups

https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Analytics-Better-Startup-OReilly/dp/1449335675

LEAN ENTERPRISE

https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Enterprise-Performance-Organizations-Innovate/dp/1449368425

Scaling Lean

https://www.amazon.com/Scaling-Lean-Mastering-Metrics-Startup/dp/1101980524

Web analytics 2.0

https://www.amazon.com/Web-Analytics-2-0-Accountability-Centricity/dp/0470529393

Validating product Ideas

https://www.amazon.com/Validating-Product-Ideas-Through-Research/dp/1933820292

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Jens Wedin
Jens Wedin

Written by Jens Wedin

Design + Coaching + Transformation + Leadership @ Seventyone Consulting // Mostly in English // http://jenswedin.com

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