8 must-read technology books like Practical Design Discovery by Dan M. Brown

Cover of Practical Design Discovery by Dan M. Brown

Practical Design Discovery

By: Dan M. Brown

4.03

Format: 144 pages, ebook

Design discovery is crucial to a project’s success—unite your team in an approach toward a common g…

If you liked the technology plot in Practical Design Discovery by Dan M. Brown , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) by William Gibson

1. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

Similar categories in William Gibson's Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

Cover of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink

2. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

By: Daniel H. Pink

3.95

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motiv… read more

Similar categories in Daniel H. Pink's Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

  • nonfiction
  • business
"Lawyers often face intense demands but have relatively little “decision latitude."

-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

"Motivation is deeply personal and only you know what words or images will resonate with you."

-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

"Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics."

-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

"Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon."

-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Cover of A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4) by Agatha Christie

3. A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

By: Agatha Christie

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"A Murder is Announced" is a staple of crime fiction and often considered as the best Miss Marple n… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4) book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

"الناس في الظلام مختلفين كثيرا"

-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

"Use that fluff of yours you call a brain."

-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

"It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy."

-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

"إن الجرائم الصغيرة تؤدي إلى الجرائم الكبيرة .. أليس كذلك ؟"

-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

Cover of Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success by Brad Stulberg, Steve Magness

4. Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

By: Brad Stulberg , Steve Magness

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A few common principles drive performance, regardless of the field or the task at hand. Whether som… read more

Similar categories in Brad Stulberg's Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

  • nonfiction
  • business
"Even seemingly trivial decisions deplete us."

-Brad Stulberg, Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

"It isn't experience that sets top performers apart but the amount of deliberate practice they put in."

-Brad Stulberg, Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

"More than half of white collar workers believe they have reached a breaking point. They simply can't handle any more information, and they report feeling demoralized as a result."

-Brad Stulberg, Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

"In every field that's been studied from wine tasting to financial investing, when it came to differentiating between top performers, experience was not the critical variable....experience and experti…"

-Brad Stulberg, Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

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

5. 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 Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

  • website design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Anything You Want by Derek Sivers

6. Anything You Want

By: Derek Sivers

4.11

Format: 256 pages,

The creator of CDBaby.com shares what he has learned over his ten years of starting and growing CDB… read more

Similar categories in Derek Sivers's Anything You Want book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman

7. 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 Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

  • business
  • nonfiction
  • design

8. UX Research: Practical Techniques for Designing Better Products

By: Brad Nunnally , None

3.73

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

One key responsibility of product designers and UX practitioners is to conduct formal and informal … read more

Similar categories in Brad Nunnally's UX Research: Practical Techniques for Designing Better Products book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

9. A Practical Guide to Information Architecture

By: Donna Spencer

4.11

Format: 500 pages, ebook

If you're a website designer, intranet manager or someone without much Information Architecture exp… read more

Similar categories in Donna Spencer's A Practical Guide to Information Architecture book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

Cover of She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai, Tsubasa Yamaguchi

10. She and Her Cat

By: Makoto Shinkai , Tsubasa Yamaguchi

3.69

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

“It was the start of spring. It was raining. That was the day that she brought me home.” This is… read more

Similar categories in Makoto Shinkai's She and Her Cat book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

"Let's go home together."

-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat

"The only one waiting at home for me is my cat!"

-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat

"And then after that long, long phone call, she wept."

-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat

"When she came home, she smelled the way I like. But . . . her face seemed sadder than when she left."

-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat

11. Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results

By: Christina Wodtke

4.22

Format: 224 pages,

How do you inspire a diverse team to work together, going all out in pursuit of a single, challengi… read more

Similar categories in Christina Wodtke's Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

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

By: Abby Covert

4.28

Format: 364 pages,

read more

Similar categories in Abby Covert's How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

13. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

By: David Eagleman

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

If the conscious mind--the part you consider you--accounts for only a tiny fraction of the brain's … read more

Similar categories in David Eagleman's Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

14. 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 Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

Cover of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2) by Jules Verne, Anthony Bonner

15. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

By: Jules Verne , Anthony Bonner

3.89

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronna… read more

Similar categories in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2) book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not"

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

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

Similar categories in Peter Economy's User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

Cover of Baptism of Fire (The Witcher, #3) by Andrzej Sapkowski

17. Baptism of Fire (The Witcher, #3)

By: Andrzej Sapkowski

4.25

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher … read more

Similar categories in Andrzej Sapkowski's Baptism of Fire (The Witcher, #3) book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

"Nie polują wilcy samotnie! <...> Jedyną czynnością, która dobrze wychodzi samotnym, jest samogwałt."

-Andrzej Sapkowski, Baptism of Fire (The Witcher, #3)

"«Sulla strada dell’eternità, ognuno procederà lungo la propria scala, portando il proprio fardello.»"

-Andrzej Sapkowski, Baptism of Fire (The Witcher, #3)

"Cuando alguien me comunica que es apolítico, siempre pregunto en qué política concreta está pensando."

-Andrzej Sapkowski, Baptism of Fire (The Witcher, #3)

"In tutto il mondo l’onore è sceso di prezzo, perché al giorno d’oggi è una merce difficile da vendere"

-Andrzej Sapkowski, Baptism of Fire (The Witcher, #3)

Cover of Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential by Tiago Forte

18. Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

By: Tiago Forte

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

>For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has ne… read more

Similar categories in Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2) by Agatha Christie

19. The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

By: Agatha Christie

3.87

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-s… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2) book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

"Two people rarely see the same thing."

-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

"Again you have the sentiment and not the logic!"

-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

"[...] She is not for you, that one! Take it from Papa Poirot!"

-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

"Mon ami, двоє людей рідко можуть похвалитись, що бачать однакові речі"

-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)

Cover of Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be by Becky   Kennedy

20. Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

By: Becky Kennedy

4.55

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving--whi… read more

Similar categories in Becky Kennedy's Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

  • nonfiction
Cover of Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day by Jake Knapp

21. Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

By: Jake Knapp

4.08

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint, a simple 4-step system for improving focus, … read more

Similar categories in Jake Knapp's Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

  • business
  • nonfiction
  • design
Cover of 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

22. 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

Similar categories in Rob Fitzpatrick's The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

  • business
  • nonfiction
  • design
"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

"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

"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

"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

Cover of Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan

23. 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

Similar categories in Marty Cagan's Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

  • business
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • technology
Cover of Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value by Teresa  Torres

24. 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 Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

  • research
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value by Melissa Perri

25. Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

By: Melissa Perri

4.30

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

To stay competitive in today’s market, organizations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric pr… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Perri's Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

  • business
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • technology
Cover of Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty by C. Todd Lombardo

26. Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty

By: C. Todd Lombardo

4.12

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

A good product roadmap is one of the most important and influential documents an organization can d… read more

Similar categories in C. Todd Lombardo's Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

  • business
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • technology
Cover of Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

27. Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

By: Anne Helen Petersen

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An incendiary examination of burnout in millennials—the cultural shifts that got us here, the press… read more

Similar categories in Anne Helen Petersen's Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

  • nonfiction
  • business
"[Burnout] isn’t a personal problem. It’s a societal one—and it will not be cured by productivity apps, or a bullet journal, or face mask skin treatments, or overnight fucking oats."

-Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

"It's always been implied that if you fail to succeed, you aren't passionate enough. But I no longer invest in work emotionally. It isn't worth it. I learned that every single person is expendable. No…"

-Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

"The story of middle-class ascendancy is all about individual hard work. And no one wants to lose any of the hard-won benefits of that work, which helps explain the popularity of the Personal Responsi…"

-Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

"The idea of a pension was not, and is not, extravagant. It's premised on the idea that some of the profits you help produce for a company should not go to stockholders, or the CEO, back back to longt…"

-Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

Cover of Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group) by Marty Cagan

28. Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group)

By: Marty Cagan

4.29

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

What is it about the top tech product companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix and Tesla th… read more

Similar categories in Marty Cagan's Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group) book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

  • business
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • technology
"But anytime we interact with users and customers, we have a chance to learn more about them, and sometimes we discover even bigger opportunity if we're open to it"

-Marty Cagan, Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group)

Cover of Practical Design Discovery by Dan M. Brown

29. Practical Design Discovery

By: Dan M. Brown

4.03

Format: 144 pages, ebook

Design discovery is crucial to a project’s success—unite your team in an approach toward a common g… read more

Similar categories in Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery book and Dan M. Brown's Practical Design Discovery

  • research
  • website design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • business
  • technology

16 best-selling nonfiction books like Practical Design Discovery by Dan M. Brown

Transform Your Habits

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Daniel H. Pink

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

Brad Stulberg , Steve Magness

4.18

Transform Your Habits

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

Steve Krug

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Anything You Want

Derek Sivers

4.11

View all the books

27 Top fiction books like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2) by Jules Verne, Anthony Bonner

Transform Your Habits

Robinson Crusoe

Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)

Arthur Conan Doyle

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

Arthur Conan Doyle , Anne Perry , Sidney Paget , Maria Buitoni Duca

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.