10 best-selling technology books like The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web by Jesse James Garrett

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The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web

By: Jesse James Garrett

3.78

Format: 377 pages,

If you liked the technology plot in The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web by Jesse James Garrett , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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

3. 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

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  • website design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference
"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

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

7. 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

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • design
Cover of The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web by Jesse James Garrett

8. The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web

By: Jesse James Garrett

3.78

Format: 377 pages,

read more

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

9. 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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10. 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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  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference
  • business
  • technology

11. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

By: Dave Thomas , Andy Hunt

3.28

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

-- Ward Cunningham Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through th… read more

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12. 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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13. The Non-Designer's Design Book

By: Robin P. Williams

3.14

Format: 32 pages,

So you have a great concept and all the fancy digital tools you could possibly require--what's stop… 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. 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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16. Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules

By: None

3.64

Format: 216 pages, ebook

User interface (UI) design rules and guidelines, developed by early HCI gurus and recognized throug… read more

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17. 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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  • 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

18. 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

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

19. 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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  • design
  • 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

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20. 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
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference
  • 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

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21. 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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15 Top nonfiction books like The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web by Jesse James Garrett

Transform Your Habits

Just Enough Research

Erika Hall , Jeffrey Zeldman

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung

None , Josef Muller-Brockmann

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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