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I'm interested in the impact that design has on societies and systems and this book talks about it Get for $40

They both have the same name - but they're kind of companion books to each other and talk about the same thing - using complexity science to understand design's impact on society Get for $40

One of the best design books ever written, and one of the first "hypertext" books that proposed an idea of a "design pattern" - these patterns link to each other in a complex constellation of ideas that's honestly unprecedented in literature Get for $73

I'm a big fan of Scott Berkun - he wrote a fantastic book about the future of remote work that I really liked, and I'm looking forward to reading this! Get for $34

One of the best books on human-computer interaction ever written Get for $36

Bill Moggridge founded the legendary design studio IDEO - and this book is a great educational resource to learn more about where interaction design as a discipline came from Get for $70

A comprehensive encyclopedia and reference book Get for $38

Herbert Simon is kind of an O.G of design, psychology and economics. Among his other achievements, he invented what's now called "Design Thinking" - he was one of the first people to realise that design is a different discipline from the sciences and the humanities Get for $51

Typography is a subject that is so vast and fascinating. I realise now that I need to learn more about it so here I am Get for $20

Color is a very deep and complicated subject. This book is a ready reference guide of principles like temperature, color intensity, color relativity, vibrating and vanishing boundaries, the illusion of transparencies, and reversed grounds.. Get for $21

It would be good to learn more about branding. It's a fascinating topic that doesn't get enough love because it's one of the hardest applied psychology disciplines out there, playing into our minds and culture to create associations out of thin air Get for $56

This is one of the best books on advertising Get for $18

The economist ad campaigns were iconic - I really like how iconic they were. Get for $84

I really like this book when I had the chance to go through it - Industrial design is in a lot of ways a "mother discipline" of UX and doesn't get enough love Get for $57

One of the OG graphic design books - every visual designed object you've seen uses a grid because of someone like Brockmann Get for $68

I'm interested in how interaction design can interact with other fields - so I'm looking to learn more about computational architecture, for example Get for $29

This book is about the responsibility that designers have to create better societies. I'm very excited to read it Get for $15

This is an iconic book on how constructs and tropes from our collective mythologies affect the kinds of stories that get told today. Get for $28

One of the OG books on interface design. Looking for the 3rd edition (hard to find!) Get for $68

Again - another OG book. Kim Goodwin is famous for pioneering the use of personas at Cooper Get for $79

4th edition - Another very important book in the "canon" on Interaction Design Get for $57

Dan Saffer is another OG. I was lucky to listen to his talk on robotics and UX design at the IxDA conference in Milan in 2020 and this book seems great Get for $62

Very interesting book on the current state of design from one of the world's most pre-eminent design critics Get for $35

This is one of the best books on an under-rated subject called "design space analysis" in HCI - a design space is a space of constraints and possible solutions that constitute a given situation a designer faces - but how do you articulate the parameters or the limits of that? Get for $102

The book explores a range of mobile media practices from interface design to maps, AR/VR, mobile games, performances that use mobile devices, and mobile storytelling projects, and provides a theoretical framework to understand it Get for $55

I'm a big fan of HCI and User Interface history and this book about Xerox PARC which pioneered a lot of the elements of the graphic user interface is a classic Get for $21

This is a kind of huge critique of the "Affordance" concept that's been central to product and UX design in the last 40 years. Get for $NaN

One of the most important voices questioning the role of design in the 21st century - this talks about the role social media and digital tech designers have had to play in society and asks us to do better Get for $30

Apparently one of the most timeless advice on investing and business Get for $40

It covers a wide range of cognitive biases which is helpful Get for $101

Many books on nudges and biases just recount the results of academic experiments. This stands out as it provides lots of details about real world tests that government departments have run. Get for $23

A good book on market research Get for $24

People attach value to things. What's up with that? Get for $20

One of the best psychology books ever written Get for $24

The strength of the book is that it’s full of practical recommendations and lots of interesting examples of how brands have harnessed the social nature of their customers. Get for $47

Again one of the more academic books on human psychology and biases Get for $21

One of the earliest and best books on human factors and safety Get for $NaN

John Heskett was one of the most famous writers on design, history and economics. This book promises to be good Get for $150

I'm a huge fan of the 99% Invisible Podcast on design, and this book promises to be a great successor to it Get for $17

Bill Moggridge is the founder of IDEO, one of the most famous design studios in the world. In this book, he talks about new media technology and interviews people like Mark Zuckerberg, Evan Williams, Jimmy Wales etc. Get for $NaN

This is one of the foundational books on design and human computer interaction Get for $90

One of the best books written on what a post graphic user interface world might look like. Get for $41

Read it for the first time in design school and I was immediately taken by it. One of the first and most important books in data visualisation Get for $51

Another very important data visualisation book Get for $NaN

I'm a big fan of Dunne and Raby who are speculative designers, wondering about what the future can look like. The book is a valuable tool to learn their methods Get for $NaN

One of the best books on data visualisation currently available - highly recommended Get for $41

I'm a big fan of Ellen Lupton and health is an important emerging topic Get for $24

Another good book on how design has influenced everyday life Get for $21

A new book that looks at how typography, images, colour, symbols, and information can be applied across different cultures Get for $21

Task Analysis is a technique that helps designers and researchers understand what people do in order to meet their goals Get for $106

Jef Raskin is a legend in HCI - he led the Macintosh project at Apple. He says current computer interfaces are often poor and set up users to fail, as a result of poor planning (or lack of planning) by programmers and a lack of understanding of how people actually use software. Get for $62

This is one of the best books on how the design of screens has affected human psychology Get for $21

This is a review of people that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page. Get for $23

Bell Labs is credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++.. and 9 nobel prizes. This is their story Get for $22

This is a very interesting book on how the price of a product can be dependent on psychological factors Get for $24

I'm a big fan of the Prince of Persia videogames, and these diaries give an invaluable insight into them Get for $20