6 best-selling website design books like Practical UI by Adham Dannaway

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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…

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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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  • website design
  • design
"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

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2. The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)

By: John Maeda

3.90

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Ten laws of simplicity for business, technology, and design that teach us how to need less but get … read more

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"Semplicità significa sottrarre l'ovvio e aggiungere il significativo."

-John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)

"Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful."

-John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)

"When a small, unassuming object exceeds our expectations, we are not only surprised but pleased. Our usual reaction is something like, "That little thing did all that?" Simplicity is about the unexpe…"

-John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)

"If the forest were covered with ten times the number of blue markers I had seen on my hike, the probability of my getting lost would certainly be reduced. One could imagine the markers organized in a…"

-John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)

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3. 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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  • design
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4. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

By: Greg McKeown

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underuti… read more

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5. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert

By: John M. Gottman , Nan Silver

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

John Gottman has revolutionized the study of marriage by using rigorous scientific procedures to ob… read more

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6. 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
  • design
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7. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Why do we do the things we do? More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert … read more

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

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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  • design

10. Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

By: Roger L. Martin , A.G. Lafley

4.54

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Are you just playing--or playing to win? Strategy is not complex. But it ishard. It's hard because … 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. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

By: Robert C. Martin

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Even bad code can function. But if code isn t clean, it can bring a development organization to its… read more

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13. 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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  • 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

"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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14. 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

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  • design
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15. Hell Yeah or No

By: Derek Sivers

4.26

Format: 122 pages, ebook

A collection of thoughts around re-defining yourself, changing focus, and saying yes to less read more

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"People often ask me what they can do to be more successful. I say disconnect. Even if just for a few hours. Unplug. Turn off your phone and Wi-Fi. Focus. Write. Practice. Create. That’s what’s rare a…"

-Derek Sivers, Hell Yeah or No

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16. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

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17. 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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  • website design
  • design
"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

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18. 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
  • design
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19. Accessibility for Everyone

By: Laura Kalbag

4.15

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

A guide for the accessibility landscape: understand disability and impairment challenges; get a han… read more

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  • website design
  • design
Cover of The Path to Senior Product Designer: An Actionable Growth Plan for a UX Design Career by Artiom Dashinsky

20. The Path to Senior Product Designer: An Actionable Growth Plan for a UX Design Career

By: Artiom Dashinsky

4.51

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

Master the 12 skills by which top companies evaluate UX designers Knowing every Figma trick doesn’… read more

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  • design
Cover of Practical UI by Adham Dannaway

21. 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
  • design

13 Best design books like Practical UI by Adham Dannaway

Transform Your Habits

Just Enough Research

Erika Hall , Jeffrey Zeldman

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)

John Maeda

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal

4.11

Transform Your Habits

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

Steve Krug

4.30

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15 must-read nonfiction books like Refactoring UI by Adam Wathan

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

Transform Your Habits

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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