What I'm reading.
Books
A selection of the books on design and related subjects I've read.
- Writing for Designers by Scott Kubie
- Pricing Design by Dan Mall
- Product Design Exercises by Artiom Dashinsky
- The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
- Cross-Cultural Design by Senongo Akpem
- Expressive Design Systems by Yesenia Perez-Cruz
- Ruined by Design by Mike Monterio
- Shape of Design by Frank Chimero
- The Best Interface is no Interface by Golden Krishna
- Change by Design by Tim Brown
- Emotional Design by Don Norman
- Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
- Just Enough Research by Erika Hall
- Rehearsing the Future by Joachim Halse, Eva Brandt (Editors)
- Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction by Helen Sharpe, Yvonne Rogers and Jenny Preece
- This is Service Design Thinkng by Marc Stickdorn and Jakob Schneider
Articles, pappers, and talks
This is a growing selection of content I can recommend reading.
- The things of everyday design by Matthew Ström
- Fast design will kill your product by Phillip Ardeljan
- 100 Days of 3D design by Tiantian Xu
- What makes a UX Strategy successful by Bilgi Karan
- Hey now by Jeremy Keith
- Design is not about solving problems by Robin Rendle
- Applying visual art expertise to product design by Jesse Lee
- Learning SwiftUI by Joey Banks
- A design API in practice by Matthew Ström
- Design APIs: the evolution of design systems by Matthew Ström
- The Design System Between Us by Ethan Marcotte
- What's new in SwiftUI for iOS 14 by Paul Hudson
- Apple WWDC 2020 from the UI/UX perspective by Malewicz
- Why I Don’t Believe in Empathic Design by Don Norman
- What does the product design team do here? by Tanner Christensen
- Designing and Making by Matthias Ott
- My Lived Racism Experience by Collin Lyons
- Design for Kids Based on Their Stage of Physical Development by Feifei Liu
- Designing for Kids: Cognitive Considerations by Feifei Liu
- The Mistakes I Have Made Running a Design Agency by Marcus Taylor
- Notes about Product Design by Robin Rendle
- Unlearning the UI by Robin Rendle
- Give it Five Minutes by Jason Fried
- How Spotify Organises Work in Figma to Improve Collaboration by Cliona O’Sullivan and Barton Smith
- How Apple reinvented the cursor for iPad by Matthew Panzarino
- Being Unhappy with Your Creative Work by Tanner Christensen
- The Pragmatic Designer’s 10 Things by by Uday Gajendar
- Adapting to remote research by Cynthia Risse
- As a designer, you probably don't like the words "it's great" by Kajsa Westman
- CSS for internationalisation by Chen Hui Jing
- Design Doesn’t Scale by Stanley Wood
- Redesign: Looking at Letters by Frank Chimero
- The Sliding Scale of Giving a Fuck by Cap Watkins
- Incrementally Correct Personal Websites by Brian Lovin
- Mental models for designers by Wes O'Haire
- Everything you need to know about layout grids in Figma by Thomas Lowry
- Notes on Design Practice: Stories and Prototypes as Catalysts for Communication by Thomas Erickson
- How can digital government contribute to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? by Alessia Aquaro
- The Definitive Guide to Asking Follow-up Questions by Dan Brown
- Becoming a Product designer: requirements by Alex Muench
- Oliver Reichenstein from iA, on the need for an ethical and philosophical approach in digital design by Giorgia Lombardo
- Your best work will be invisible by Tanner Christensen
- Empathy reifies disability stigmas by Liz Jackson
- Intercom’s fundamentals of good interaction design by Gustavs Cirulis
- Why Designing Affordances Is Apple’s Secret Design Superpower by John Brownlee
- Mind the Gap: User Centered Design in Large Organizations by Luke Wroblewski