Reading list
I have to admit, I did not read many books when I was young, but I am a book guy now and I have a pretty decent library. Here is a list of some of my recommended books in no particular order.
UX, Design, Product
- The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
- User Friendly by Cliff Kuang
- Experience required by Robert Hoekman Jr
- Change by Design by Tim Brown
- Figuring it out by Stephen P Anderson and Karl Fast
- Bottlenecks by David Evans
- Designing with the Mind in Mind by Jeff Johnson
- The Laws of Simplicy by John Maeda
- About Face by Alan Cooper
- 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People by Susan Weinschenk
- 100 More Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People by Susan Weinschenk
- The Inmates are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper
- Outcome over Outputs by Josh Seiden
- Sense and Respond by Josh Seiden
- Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri
- How To Speak Machine by John Maeda
- Friction by Roger Dooley
- Badass by Kathy Sierra
- Well Designed by Jon Kolko
- Inspired by Marty Cagan
- Articulating Design Decisions by Tom Greever
- The Gamer's Brain by Celia Hodent
Psychology
- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Behave by Robert Sapolsky
- Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky
- How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
- The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
- Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
- Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
- Deviate by Beau Lotto
- Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) by Carol Tavris
- How We Learn by Benedict Carey
- The Craving Mind by Judson Brewer
- Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg
- Made to Stick by Dan Heath
- Hooked by Nir Eyal
Science, History, Philosophy
- Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
- The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
- Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
- Guns, Germs and Steal by Jared Diamond
- The Secret of Our Success by Joseph Henrich
- From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel Dennett
- The Skeptics' Guide to The Universe by Steven Novella
- The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Misc
- Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
- Tech Monopolies by Jon Barnes
- The Heretics by Will Storr
- Selfie by Will Storr