13 Top technology books like Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services by Jon Yablonski

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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…

"minimise choices when response time is critical to decrease decision time"

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

"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 experience. Where possible, designers and developers should handle complexity, while taking care not to over-simplify to the point of abstraction."

-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 experience. Where possible, designers and developers should handle complexity, while taking care not to over-simplify to the point of abstraction."

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

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1. Just Enough Research

By: Erika Hall , Jeffrey Zeldman

4.18

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Design research is a hard slog that takes years to learn and time away from the real work of design… read more

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  • art design
  • website design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference
  • business
  • technology
"A large corporation is more like Australia: it’s impossible to see the whole landscape at once and there are so many things capable of maiming or killing you."

-Erika Hall, Just Enough Research

"Some websites are completely optimized for simple conversion, and it’s easy to tell. The design centers on one clear call to action, a vivid lozenge labeled with a verb."

-Erika Hall, Just Enough Research

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

2. 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

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  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites by Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld

3. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites

By: Peter Morville , Louis Rosenfeld

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

The post-Ajaxian Web 2.0 world of wikis, folksonomies, and mashups makes well-planned information a… read more

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  • programming
  • website design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference
  • technology
Cover of Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug

4. 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

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

5. 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

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  • art design
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • business
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6. 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

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • design
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7. The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web

By: Jesse James Garrett

3.78

Format: 377 pages,

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  • website design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference
  • business
  • technology
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8. 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

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • design
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9. 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

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  • programming
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference
  • business
  • technology

10. The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide

By: None

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

The User Experience Team of One prescribes a range of approaches that have big impact and take less… read more

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11. Universal Principles of Design: 100 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach Through Design

By: William Lidwell , Jill Butler , None

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Whether a marketing campaign or a museum exhibit, a video game or a complex control system, the des… read more

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12. How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody

By: Abby Covert

4.28

Format: 364 pages,

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13. 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

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14. 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

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15. 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

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16. User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product

By: Peter Economy , None

4.06

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

How do you build a product that delights users? You must first know who your users are and how they… read more

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17. Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems

By: Steve Krug

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

It's been known for years that usability testing can dramatically improve products. But with a typi… read more

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18. UX for Beginners: 100 Short Lessons to Get You Started

By: None

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

In today s digital world, any product, app, or website requires a professional User Experience (UX)… read more

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19. 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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20. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

By: Rob Fitzpatrick

4.37

Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition

The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak. They say y… read more

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  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • business
  • audiobook
"The world’s most deadly fluff is: “I would definitely buy that."

-Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

"Compliments are the fool’s gold of customer learning: shiny, distracting, and entirely worthless."

-Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

"Here’s the thing: only the market can tell if your idea is good. Everything else is just opinion."

-Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

"Trying to learn from customer conversations is like excavating a delicate archaeological site. The truth is down there somewhere, but it’s fragile."

-Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

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21. Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

By: Marty Cagan

4.24

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

The basic premise of Inspired is that the best tech companies create products in a manner very diff… read more

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  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • business
  • audiobook
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22. Design Is Storytelling

By: Ellen Lupton

3.97

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Ellen Lupton, award-winning author of Thinking with Type and How Posters Work, demonstrates how sto… read more

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

23. 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

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"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

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24. The SaaS Playbook: Build a Multimillion-Dollar Startup Without Venture Capital

By: Rob Walling

4.36

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Do you want to build a software product that people want and are willing to pay for? Do you dream o… read more

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  • audiobook
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  • programming
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  • technology
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25. Atomic Design

By: Brad Frost

4.01

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

We're tasked with making interfaces for more users in more contexts using more browsers on more dev… read more

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  • website design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • programming
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Cover of Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services by Jon Yablonski

26. 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
  • website design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • programming
  • reference
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  • 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 Universal Principles of UX: 100 Timeless Strategies to Create Positive Interactions between People and Technology (Volume 4) (Rockport Universal, 4) by Irene Pereyra

27. Universal Principles of UX: 100 Timeless Strategies to Create Positive Interactions between People and Technology (Volume 4) (Rockport Universal, 4)

By: Irene Pereyra

4.30

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Master the art of user experience design through the 100 laws, guidelines, human biases, and genera… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • design
Cover of Refactoring UI by Adam Wathan

28. 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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  • website design
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Cover of Design for How People Think: Using Brain Science to Build Better Products by John Whalen

29. Design for How People Think: Using Brain Science to Build Better Products

By: John Whalen

3.67

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Understanding the mind of a customer is essential for any product or service designer. True, some d… read more

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Cover of Bottlenecks: Aligning UX Design with User Psychology by David C. Evans

30. Bottlenecks: Aligning UX Design with User Psychology

By: David C. Evans

4.17

Format: 281 pages, Paperback

Learn the psychological constrictions of attention, perception, memory, disposition, motivation, an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • design
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31. Practical UI

By: Adham Dannaway

4.55

Format: 281 pages, ebook

Learn a logic-driven approach to design intuitive, accessible, and beautiful interfaces using quick… read more

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  • website design
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6 must-read audiobook books like Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services by Jon Yablonski

Transform Your Habits

The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

Rob Fitzpatrick

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

Marty Cagan

4.24

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

The SaaS Playbook: Build a Multimillion-Dollar Startup Without Venture Capital

Rob Walling

4.36

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Transform Your Habits

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

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Donald A. Norman

4.11

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