Product Design Book List
Many UX Designers have had to find their own way to understand more broadly what product design means. When looking at the opportunity space for a product, the list of recommended books for reading becomes quite a bit longer and best for another post.
The top recommendations that I suggest owning for referencing more often are in listed here first:
The Customer-Driven Playbook
Converting Customer Feedback into Successful Products
By Travis Lowdermilk and Jessica Rich
Product Leadership:
How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams.
By Richard Banfield and Martin Eriksson
Product Roadmaps Relaunched
How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty
By C. Todd Lombardo, Bruce McCarthy, Evan Ryan, Michael Connors
Build Better Products
A Modern Approach to Building Successful User-Centered Products
By Laura Klein
Universal Methods of Design:
100 Ways to Research Complex Problems, Develop Innovative Ideas, and Design Effective Solutions
By Bruce Hanington
Mapping Experiences:
A Complete Guide to Creating Value through Journeys, Blueprints, and Diagrams
By James Kalbach
Below are the list of books I suggest as a go-to resource for moments when you would need to tackle specific issues many product designers encounter.
Business Model Generation:
A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
By Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
Value Proposition Design:
How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer)
By Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda, Alan Smith, and Trish Papadakos
Ten Types of Innovation:
The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs
By Larry Keeley, Helen Walters, Ryan Pikkel, Brian Quinn
Validating Product Ideas:
Through Lean User Research
By Tomer Sharon
Just Enough Research
By Erika Hall
Interviewing Users:
How to Uncover Compelling Insights
By Steve Portigal
Lean UX:
Designing Great Products with Agile Teams
By Jeff Gothelf
Sprint:
How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
By Jake Knapp
Sense and Respond:
How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously
by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden
Articulating Design Decisions:
Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience
By Tom Greever
Blind Spot:
Illuminating the Hidden Value In Business
By Steve Diller, Nathan Sheriff, and Sean Sauber
Making Meaning:
How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences
By Steve Diller, Nathan Sheriff, and Darrel Rhea
User Story Mapping:
Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product
By Jeff Patton
Why We Fail:
Learning from Experience Design Failures
By Victor Lombardi
AIGA: Design Business and Ethics
https://www.aiga.org/design-business-and-ethics
The Design of Everyday Things
By Don Norman
Understanding Industrial Design:
Principles for UX and Interaction Design
By Simon King and Kuen Chang
Designing Connected Products:
UX for the Consumer Internet of Things
By Claire Rowland, Elizabeth Goodman, Martin Charlier, Ann Light, and Alfred Lui
Hooked:
How to Build Habit-Forming Products
by Nir Eyal and Ryan Hoover
About Face:
The Essentials of Interaction Design
by Alan Cooper and Robert Reimann
Understanding Context
Environment, Language, and Information Architecture
By Andrew Hinton
Intertwingled:
Information Changes Everything
By Peter Morville
How to Make Sense of Any Mess
By Abby Covert
Microinteractions:
Designing with Details
By Dan Saffer
This Is Service Design Doing:
Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World
by Marc Stickdorn and Markus Edgar Hormess
This list doesn’t nearly cover the spectrum of new content constantly coming on the market. Which books do you recommend?
