6 best-selling psychology books like Deceptive Patterns: Exposing the Tricks Tech Companies Use to Control You by Harry Brignull

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Deceptive Patterns: Exposing the Tricks Tech Companies Use to Control You

By: Harry Brignull

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Step into the shadowy world of deceptive patterns and learn how online businesses exploit consumers…

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1. 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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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • design
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2. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler

3.84

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."

-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"

-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

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3. Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong

By: Eric Barker

4.11

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Ba… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology

4. Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

By: Jason Schreier

4.75

Format: None pages,

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5. Bloodchild and Other Stories

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable B… read more

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6. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

By: Brian Christian , Tom Griffiths

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday l… read more

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7. 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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8. 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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9. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

By: Robert Coram

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

John Boyd may be the most remarkable unsung hero in all of American military history. Some remember… read more

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10. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began

By: Leah Hazard

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking, triumphant investigation of the uterus--from birth to death, in sickness and in h… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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13. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

By: Alice Wong

4.47

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

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14. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.10

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more

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"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

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15. Content Design

By: Sarah Richards

4.31

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Between 2010 and 2014, Sarah Richards and her team at the United Kingdom’s Government Digital Servi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • design
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16. The Book of Love

By: Kelly Link

3.50

Format: 628 pages, Hardcover

The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attu… read more

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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

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  • psychology
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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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18. 101 UX Principles: A definitive design guide

By: Will Grant

4.12

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn from the opinions of a UX expert, evaluate your own design principles and avoid common mistak… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • design
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19. Better Onboarding

By: Krystal Higgins

4.26

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

When users try your product for the first time, what keeps them coming back? Onboarding can make th… read more

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  • design
Cover of Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work by Uri Gneezy

20. Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work

By: Uri Gneezy

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An informative and entertaining account of how actions send signals that shape behaviors and how to… read more

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  • psychology
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21. Deceptive Patterns: Exposing the Tricks Tech Companies Use to Control You

By: Harry Brignull

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Step into the shadowy world of deceptive patterns and learn how online businesses exploit consumers… read more

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Donald A. Norman

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3.84

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