Emotional Design by Donald Norman

Emotional Design

A classic from Donald Norman about cognitive functions and emotions. It answers the questions why we love or hate everyday things and why cheap wine tastes better served in a nice glass. Prologue can be found here.

A perfect complement to the emotional design is another book written by Norman called

“The Design of Everyday Things”.

Emotional Design

Steve Krug‘sDon’t Make me Think

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Don’t make me think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Steve Krug’s guide helps to understand the rules of designing intuitive navigation and information design. Witty, commonsensical and extremely practical book — one of the most popular and most recommended works on the subject of UX.

Don’t make me think

Designing for interaction by Dan Saffer

Design for Interaction

Dan Suffer’a book reveals secrets of interaction design. You will learn how to create design strategy that differentiate your product from the competition, how to

conduct research discovering goals and motivation of users and how to conduct brainstorming sessions. Check the sample here.

Design for Interaction

Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte

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Responsive Web Design

The book focuses on designing responsively and finding answers

to the question how to provide the best user experience in interacting with your product regardless of the size of the screen.

Responsive Web Design

About Face by Alan Copper

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About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design

Alan Cooper’s book is about designing interactions: methodologies, designing for mobile devices, responsiveness, sprinkled with numerous examples.

About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design

Smart Things by Mike Kuniavsky

Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design

The book focuses on the process of UX and not technology that constantly changes. Smart Things discusses methods, compromises and challenges of design in a commercial environment along with many case studies.

Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design

Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton

Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

The book about design thinking and UX design.

Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience

Book published in 2013 focuses on improving methods of User Experience, teamwork including clients to ongoing project.

Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience

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Courses, workshops and studying UX

A list of UX Degrees around the world

Conferences and more tutorials:

Search engine for courses, workshops and conferences about UX

Great and free tutorials on Coursera (Human Computer Interaction)

Interaction Design Foundation — Courses