A few of my favourite design books
These are a few of my favourites. This list will evolve as I discover new literature on this emerging field.
Design Thinking
The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
By Donald A. Norman
The Sciences of the Artificial, Third Edition
By Herbert A. Simon
Experience Design
The new digital storytelling: creating narratives with new media
By Bryan Alexander
Experience design: A framework for integrating brand, experience, and value
By Patrick Newbery, Kevin Farnham
The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experienceby By Rex Hartson, Pardha S. Pyla
Experience Design: Technology for All the Right Reasons
By Marc Hassenzahl
User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product
By Jeff Patton, Peter Economy
Storytelling for user experience: Crafting stories for better design
By Kevin Brooks and Whitney Quesenbery
This is Service Design Thinking: Basics, Tools, Cases
By Marc Stickdorn, Jakob Schneider
Design Research
Ethnography: Principles in Practice
By Martyn Hammersley, Paul Atkinson
Design Kit: The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design
By Ideo
Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research
By Mike Kuniavsky
Behaviour Change
Preference Change: Approaches from philosophy, economics and psychology
Edited by Till Grüne-Yanoff, Sven Ove Hansson
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness
By Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
Interaction Design
Multiple user interfaces: Cross Platform applications and context-aware interfaces
Edited by Ahmed Seffah, Homa Javahery
The best interface is no interface: The simple path to brilliant technology
By Golden Krishna
Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design
By Mike Kuniavsky
Technology as Experience
By John McCarthy, Peter Wright
Calm Technology: Principles and Patterns for Non-Intrusive Design
By Amber Case