11 Best technology books like User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play by Cliff Kuang

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User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

By: Cliff Kuang

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition can be found here. In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant…

"Simple as it sounds, that bit of information means the difference between feeling like you’re taking a ride, and feeling like you’ve been taken hostage."

-Cliff Kuang, User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

"Simple as it sounds, that bit of information means the difference between feeling like you’re taking a ride, and feeling like you’ve been taken hostage."

-Cliff Kuang, User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

"Whether we’re communicating with a human or a machine, the goal is to create a shared understanding of the world. That’s the point behind both the rules governing polite conversation and how a user-friendly machine should work."

-Cliff Kuang, User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

"Whether we’re communicating with a human or a machine, the goal is to create a shared understanding of the world. That’s the point behind both the rules governing polite conversation and how a user-friendly machine should work."

-Cliff Kuang, User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

If you liked the technology plot in User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play by Cliff Kuang , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir   Eyal

1. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

By: Nir Eyal

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

How do successful companies create products people can’t put down?Why do some products capture wide… read more

Similar categories in Nir Eyal's Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products book and Cliff Kuang's User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung by None, Josef Muller-Brockmann

2. Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung

By: None , Josef Muller-Brockmann

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Das Werk eignet sich für das Arbeiten in der automatischen Text-/Bildgestaltung. Es zeigt Beispiele… read more

Similar categories in None's Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung book and Cliff Kuang's User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

  • art
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
"Every visual creative work is a manifestation of the character of the designer."

-None, Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung

"Every visual creative work is a manifestation of the character of the designer. It is a reflection of his knowledge, his ability, and his mentality."

-None, Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung

Cover of Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug

3. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

By: Steve Krug

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since Don't Make Me Think was first published in 2000, over 400,000 Web designers and developers ha… read more

Similar categories in Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability book and Cliff Kuang's User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

  • business
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • technology
Cover of Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman

4. Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

By: Donald A. Norman

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

Did you ever wonder why cheap wine tastes better in fancy glasses? Why sales of Macintosh computers… read more

Similar categories in Donald A. Norman's Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things book and Cliff Kuang's User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

  • art
  • art design
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • business
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5. The Design of Everyday Things

By: Donald A. Norman

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans -- from physical objects to computer programs to c… read more

Similar categories in Donald A. Norman's The Design of Everyday Things book and Cliff Kuang's User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

  • art
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • business
  • science
Cover of Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All by David Kelley, Tom Kelley

6. Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All

By: David Kelley , Tom Kelley

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

IDEO founder and Stanford d.school creator David Kelley and his brother Tom Kelley, IDEO partner an… read more

Similar categories in David Kelley's Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All book and Cliff Kuang's User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

  • art
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • business
Cover of Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, None

7. Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

By: Jake Knapp , John Zeratsky , None

4.03

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

From three design partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems… read more

Similar categories in Jake Knapp's Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days book and Cliff Kuang's User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

  • business
  • nonfiction
  • design
Cover of Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience by Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden

8. Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience

By: Jeff Gothelf , Josh Seiden

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

The Lean UX approach to interaction design is tailor-made for today's web-driven reality. In this i… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Gothelf's Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience book and Cliff Kuang's User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

  • business
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • technology

9. Graphic Design: The New Basics

By: Ellen Lupton , Jennifer Cole Phillips

3.67

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

How do designers get ideas? Many spend their time searching for clever combinations of forms, fonts… read more

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10. Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Every designer has had to justify designs to non-designers, yet most lack the ability to explain th… read more

Similar categories in None's Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience book and Cliff Kuang's User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

11. 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People

By: Susan M. Weinschenk

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

We design to elicit responses from people. We want them to buy something, read more, or take action… read more

Similar categories in Susan M. Weinschenk's 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People book and Cliff Kuang's User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

12. Design Is a Job

By: Erik Spiekermann , Mike Monteiro

5.00

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Co-founder of Mule Design and raconteur Mike Monteiro wants to help you do your job better. From co… read more

Similar categories in Erik Spiekermann's Design Is a Job book and Cliff Kuang's User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

13. Thinking with Type

By: Ellen Lupton

3.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

The organization of letters on a blank sheet--or screen--is the most basic challenge facing anyone … read more

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Cover of Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value by Teresa  Torres

14. Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value

By: Teresa Torres

4.47

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

"If you haven't had the good fortune to be coached by a strong leader or product coach, this book c… read more

Similar categories in Teresa Torres's Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value book and Cliff Kuang's User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

  • business
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • technology
Cover of Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It by Mike Monteiro

15. Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It

By: Mike Monteiro

4.12

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is working exactly as designed. The combustion engine which is destroying our planet’s… read more

Similar categories in Mike Monteiro's Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It book and Cliff Kuang's User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

  • audiobook
  • art
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • business
  • technology
"We need to value the consequences of our actions more than the cleverness of our ideas."

-Mike Monteiro, Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It

Cover of Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) by Kat Holmes

16. Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)

By: Kat Holmes

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all. Sometimes designed obje… read more

Similar categories in Kat Holmes's Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) book and Cliff Kuang's User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

  • audiobook
  • art
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • business
  • technology
Cover of User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play by Cliff Kuang

17. User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

By: Cliff Kuang

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition can be found here. In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant… read more

Similar categories in Cliff Kuang's User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play book and Cliff Kuang's User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

  • audiobook
  • art
  • science
  • history
  • art design
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • business
  • technology
"Simple as it sounds, that bit of information means the difference between feeling like you’re taking a ride, and feeling like you’ve been taken hostage."

-Cliff Kuang, User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

"Whether we’re communicating with a human or a machine, the goal is to create a shared understanding of the world. That’s the point behind both the rules governing polite conversation and how a user-f…"

-Cliff Kuang, User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

"Being polite means following a conversation, not co-opting it and dragging it in other directions. It means knowing who you’re talking with, and knowing what they know. It’s rude to talk over people,…"

-Cliff Kuang, User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

Cover of Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services by Jon Yablonski

18. Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services

By: Jon Yablonski

4.35

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

An understanding of psychology—specifically the psychology behind how users behave and interact wit… read more

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  • audiobook
  • art design
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • business
  • technology
"minimise choices when response time is critical to decrease decision time"

-Jon Yablonski, Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services

"As designers, we have a responsibility to remove inherent complexity from our interfaces, or else we ship that complexity to our users. This can result in confusion, frustration and a bad user experi…"

-Jon Yablonski, Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services

Cover of Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs by Ken Kocienda

19. Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

By: Ken Kocienda

4.06

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

An insider's account of Apple's creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs. Hundreds… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Refactoring UI by Adam Wathan

20. Refactoring UI

By: Adam Wathan

4.66

Format: 252 pages, ebook

Make your ideas look awesome, without relying on a designer. Learn how to design beautiful user int… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • design
  • technology
Cover of Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech by Geoffrey Cain

21. Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech

By: Geoffrey Cain

3.65

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Geoffrey Cain offers a penetrating look behind the curtains of the biggest company nobody in Americ… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology

6 Top audiobook books like User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play by Cliff Kuang

Transform Your Habits

Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It

Mike Monteiro

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)

Kat Holmes

4.12

Transform Your Habits

User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

Cliff Kuang

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services

Jon Yablonski

4.35

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Charles Petzold

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal

4.11

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Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Steve Krug

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Design of Everyday Things

Donald A. Norman

4.11

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