A Resource List for UX Professionals: Books, Sites, and More

• The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience – Rex Hartson, Pardha Pyla
• About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design – Alan Cooper
• The Inmates Are Running the Asylum – Alan Cooper
• Seductive Interaction Design – Stephen Anderson
• Hooked: How to Build Habit Forming Products – Nir Eyal
• Agile Experience Design – Lindsay Ratcliffe, Mac McNeill
• Graphic Design School – David Dabner
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information – Edward Tufte
• Passionate Product Ownership: Using Agile Development & Scrum to Collaboratively Design and Build Products to be Proud of – Jeff Patton (Training Manual)
• The Design of Everyday Things – Donald Norman
• Emotional Design – Donald Norman
• A Theory of Fun: For Game Design – Ralph Koster
• 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People – Susan Weinschenk
• Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click – Susan Weinschenk
• Logo Design Love – David Airey
• Simple and Usable – Giles Colborne
• Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules – Jeff Johnson
• Daily Rituals: How Artists Work – Mason Currey
• Everything I Know About VCT Fits in My Back Pocket – Gene Poor
• The Mac is Not a Typewriter – Robin Williams
• The Non-Designer’s Design Book – Robin Williams
• Thinking With Type – Ellen Lupton
• The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers – Thames & Hudson
• The Photoshop book for Digital Photographers – Scott Kelby
• Learning to See Creatively: Design, Color, and Composition – Bryan Peterson
• National Geographic Photography Field Guide – Peter Burian Robert Caputo
• Single Camera Video Production – Robert Musburger
• The DV Rebel’s Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap – Stu Maschwitz
• Adobe After Effects Professional Studio Techniques – Mark Christiansen
• Video Basics 4 – Herbert Zettl
• Flash Professional Training From the Source – Tom Green and Jordan Chilcott
• The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles – Steven Pressfield
• Don’t Make Me Think – Steve Krug
• Rocket Surgery Made Easy – Steve Krug
• Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love – Marty Cagan
• Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small – Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayres
• The Pursuit of Wow! – Tom Peters

• Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works – A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things – Ben Horowitz
• Creativity, Inc. – Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
• How Google Works – Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg
• The Business Side of Creativity – Cameron Foote
• The Entrepreneur’s Journey – Gene Poor
• Entreprenuerial Finance – Chris Leach and Ronald Melicher
• The Decision Book: 50 Models For Strategic Thinking – Mikael Krogerus
• Rework – Jason Fried and David Hansson
• The Lean Startup – Eric Ries
• Spin Selling – Neil Rackham
• Secrets of Power Negotiating – Roger Dawson
• Start With Why – Simon Sinek
• Leaders Eat Last – Simon Sinek
• 80/20 Sales and Marketing – Perry Marshall
• Raise The Bar – Jon Taffer
• How to Win at the Sport of Business – Mark Cuban
• The Halo Effect: and Eight Other Business Delusions that Deceive Managers – Phil Rosenzweig
• Leadership Power Plays: How The World’s Most Powerful Executives Reach the Top of Their Game – BusinessWeek Magazine
• The Personal MBA: Mastering the Art of Business – Josh Kaufman
• The 4-Hour Workweek – Tim Ferriss
• The Bathrobe Millionaire: Confessions of an Unemployable Job-Hopper – Jason Yelowitz
• The Six Figure Second Income: How to Start and Grow a Successful Online Business – David Lindahl and Johnathan Rozek
• How to Make Millions with Your Ideas: An Entrepreneur’s Guide – Dan Kennedy
• The Graphic Designer’s Guide to Pricing, Estimating, and Budgeting – Theo Williams
• Marketing – Gary Armstrong and Phillip Kotler
• The Psychology of Selling – Brian Tracy
• Trust Me, I’m Lying – Ryan Holiday
• Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? – Seth Godin
• Purple Cow: How to Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable – Seth Godin
• The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing – Al Ries and Jack Trout
• Positioning – Al Ries and Jack Trout
• Hey Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Ads – Luke Sullivan
• The World is Flat – Thoman Friedman
• The ABC’s of Writing Winning Business Plans – Garrett Sutton

• The Psychology Book – Various Contributors
• Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
• Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert Cialdini
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us – Dan Pink
• The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
• Made to Stick – Chip and Dan Heath
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness – Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature – Steven Pinker
• How the Mind Works – Steven Pinker
• Mindset – Carol Dweck
• The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance – Steven Kotler
• The Happiness Advantage – Shawn Achor
• Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think – Brian Wansink
• Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
• Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
• The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
• Talent is Overrated – Geoff Colvin
• The 48 Laws of Power – Robert Greene
• The Working Memory Advantage – Tracy Alloway
• Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
• Social Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
• Focus – Daniel Goleman
• Behavioral Economics – Scott Huettel
• Psychology of Human Behavior – David W. Martin
• The Great Ideas of Psychology – Daniel N. Robinson
• The Ultimate Introduction to NLP – Alessio Roberti, Owen Fitzpatrick, Richard Bandler
• The Sports Gene – David Epstein (Performance Psychology)
• The Art of Learning – Josh Waitzkin (Performance Psychology)

• The Art of War – Sun Tzu
• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win – Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
• Discipline Equals Freedom Field Manual – Jocko Willink
• Above the Line: Lessons in Leadership and Life From a Championship Season – Urban Meyer, Wayne Coffey
• Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
• Seneca: Letters From a Stoic – Lucius Seneca
• The Edge – Howard Ferguson
• The Way of the SEAL – Mark Divine
• The Checklist Manifesto – Atul Gawande
• The Art of Mental Training – D.C. Gonzalez
• The Obstacle is the Way – Ryan Holiday
• Managing Oneself – Peter Drucker
• The Practicing Mind – Thomas M. Sterner
• The Obstacle is the Way – Ryan Holiday
• Practicing Mindfulness: An Introduction to Meditation – Mark W. Muesse
• How to Meditate – Paul Roland
• Zen Habits – Leo Babuta
• Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable – Tim Grover
• The Warrior Ethos – Steven Pressfield
• The 50th Law – Robert Greene, 50 Cent
• The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
• Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
• Goals: Setting and Achieving Them on Schedule – Zig Ziglar

• In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing – Walter Murch
• The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers – Christopher Vogler
• Power Cues: The Subtle Science of Leading Groups, Persuading Others, and Maximizing Your Personal Impact – Nick Morgan
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey
• How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
• Fascinate – Sally Hogshead
• How the World Sees You – Sally Hogshead
• Resonate – Nancy Duarte
• An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments – Ali Almossawi
• Conversational Capacity – Craig Weber
• How to Write and Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit – Robert Bly
• The Art of Seduction – Robert Greene
• The Power of Body Language – Tonya Reiman
• Looking at Movies – Richard Barsam
• Covert Persuasion – Kevin Hogan
• Irresistible Attraction – Kevin Hogan
• Talking the Winner’s Way – Leil Lowndes
• The Definitive Book of Body Language – Allan and Barbara Pease
• What Every Body is Saying – Joe Navarro
• A**•hole•ol•o•gy – Steven Green, Dennis LaValle, and Chris Illuminati
• 101 Smart Questions to Ask on Your Interview – Ron Fry
• The Charisma Myth – Olivia Cabane
• The Sound of Your Voice – Carol Fleming
• How to Be a Poker Player: The Philosophy of Poker – Haseeb Qureshi (Performance Psychology)
• Cesar’s Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems – Cesar Milan (Behaviorist Psychology)
• Cesar’s Way – Cesar Milan (Behaviorist Psychology)

• Steve Jobs – Walter Issacson
• The Bald Truth – David Falk
• Michael Jordan: The Life – Roland Lazenby
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon – Brad Stone
• Total Recall – Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you think there is something not here that should be included, get in touch and I’ll check it out. This is a living resource that is updated regularly.

(updated 2/18/2018)