Welcome to the review of the best selling books on UX design. User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design are at the heart of creating intuitive, engaging, and user-friendly digital products. For both beginners and seasoned professionals, the right books can provide invaluable insights, techniques, and inspiration to refine your design skills and understand the principles that drive exceptional user experiences. From foundational texts to advanced strategies, the best-selling UX and UI books offer a wealth of knowledge, covering topics like design thinking, usability testing, wireframing, and interaction design. Whether you’re starting your journey or looking to elevate your craft, these must-read titles are perfect companions for mastering the art of creating impactful and user-centric designs.
1. UX and UI Strategy: A Step by Step Guide on UX & UI Design
By PAMALA DEACON (Author)
A step by step Guide on UX and UI design This book analyzes how Don Norman originated the word “User Experience Design” in the 1990s and it means a person’s perception or feeling towards using a product, service, website or software. Steps on how to develop user experience includes: User interface (UI) is the process by which users (people) interact with a product or service.
The UI includes hardware and software components. User interface exists for various processes and provides a means of input and output. The following are the basic procedural steps of user interface design. The steps are namely.
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- Study the idea of the products and design requirements
- Do research on potential end-users, study and analyze them
- Locate a group of people matching end users
- Create use cases and test the cases
- Create paper demonstration What a user feels would depend on the way an organization has designed its user experience to fit the user’s needs and expectation, an organization looks at the patterns, habits and behavior of users to make their experience better. UX design is all encompassing in the sense that it covers various fields such as psychology, computer science, statistics, and graphic design. A great user experience has to be useful, usable and desirable. Essential rules for UX Design such as design for users, provide absolute clarity, give users control, predict, then adapt etc. The design thinking process such as:
- User centricity and empathy
- Collaboration
- Ideation
- Experimentation and Iteration
- A bias towards action The roles of UX designers as well as the misconceptions of UI and UX. UI is actually a subset of UX, UX goes beyond designing to ensure organizations fit into the shoes of consumers or users by carrying out surveys and interviews to know their needs in order to design what will solve their problem and meet their needs.
This book teaches readers about the three basic interview methods: structured interviews, semi-structured interviews, and unstructured interviews. The author discusses the various strengths, weaknesses, issues with each type of interview, and includes best practices and procedures for conducing effective and efficient interviews. The book dives into the detailed information about interviews that haven’t been discussed before – readers learn how and when to ask the “how” and “why” questions to get a deeper understanding of problems, concepts, and processes, as well as discussions on laddering and critical incident techniques.
Because so much of what UX practitioners do involves good interviewing skills, this is your one-stop resource with the definitions, processes, procedures and best practices on the basic approaches.
3. UX Design Principles: How design principles help create delightful and compelling user experiences
By Tarun Kohli (Author), Nilanjan Debnath (Illustrator), Shruti Sharma (Editor), Shalvika Sood (Editor)
One of the most frustrating aspects of a designer’s job is receiving vague feedback from clients, leaders, and peers. The subjectivity inherent in design renders it difficult to create a shared understanding and this shows up frequently in the form of differing opinions of each individual in their design philosophies. The book “UX Design Principles”, written by Tarun Kohli, is a compilation of the principles codified by him to bring method to the madness. The book will help the creative teams and product evangelists understand the importance of designs principles.
The book explains the 7 UX principles, the value they add to the design process and how they can be implemented in designs.
Highlights of the book-
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- An in-depth explanation of each principle with colorful illustrations
- Examples and case studies from real life to showcase implementation
- Takeaways at the end of each chapter to help you make informed decisions
4. Hands-On UX Design for Developers: Design, prototype, and implement compelling user experiences from scratch
By Elvis Canziba (Author)
Designing user experience (UX) is one of the most important aspects of a project, as it has a direct effect on how customers think of your company. The process of designing a user experience is one of the most challenging yet rewarding aspects of product development. Hands-On UX Design for Developers will teach you how to create amazing user experiences for products from scratch.
This book starts with helping you understand the importance of a good UX design and the role of a UX designer. It will take you through the different stages of designing a UX and the application of various principles of psychology in UX design. Next, you will learn how to conduct user research and market research, which is crucial to creating a great UX. You will also learn how to create user personas and use it for testing. This book will help you gain the ability to think like a UX designer and understand both sides of product development: design and coding. You will explore the latest tools, such as Sketch, Balsamiq, and Framer.js, to create wireframes and prototypes. The concluding chapters will take you through designing your UI, dealing with big data while designing a UX, and the fundamentals of frontend. Finally, you’ll prepare your portfolio and become job ready in the UX arena.
What you will learn
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- What UX is and what a UX designer does
- Explore the UX Process and science of making products user-friendly
- Create user interfaces and learn which tools to use
- Understand how your design works in the real world
- Create UI interaction, animation, wireframes, and prototypes
- Design a product with users in mind
- Develop a personal portfolio and be well-prepared to join the UX world
Who this book is for
Hands-On UX/UI Design for Developers is for web designers who have knowledge of basic UX design principles.
5. UX on the Go: A Flexible Guide to User Experience Design
By Andrew Mara (Author) mm
Designed with flexibility and readers’ needs in mind, this purpose driven book offers new UX practitioners succinct and complete intructions on how to conduct user research and rapidly design interfaces and products in the classroom or the office.
With 16 challenges to learn from, this comprehensive guide outlines the process of a User Experience project cycle from assembling a team to researching user needs to creating and veryifying a prototype. Practice developing a prototype in as little as a week or build your skills in two-, four-, eight-, or sixteen-week stretches. Gain insight into individual motivations, connections, and interactions; learn the three guiding principles of the design system; and discover how to shape a user’s experience to achieve goals and improve overall immediate experience, satisfaction, and well-being.
Written for professionals looking to learn or expand their skills in user experience design and students studying technical communication, information technology, web and product design, business, or engingeering alike, this accessible book provides a foundational knowledge of this diverse and evolving field.
A companion website will include examples of contemporary UX projects, material to illustrate key techniques, and other resources for students and instructors. Access the material at uxonthego.com.
6. UX for Beginners: A practical handbook on the space of user experience design and strategy
By Joanna Ngai (Author, Editor)
Want to get started as a UX designer? Learn how to improve user experience? UX for Beginners delivers a range of practical principles, guidelines and resources to describe the nature of a UX designer’s role and how to begin a career in the industry.
Whether you want to enter the design profession or have experience under your belt, this book gives you the best insights into design in the context of business, effective data visualization, mobile design, product design and how to avoid common UX pitfalls from an industry’s perspective. With the influx of technology the role of UX designer is one that is undergoing change from working on UI/UX to constructing a brand’s strategy and meaningful connection with its user base.
Ngai, writes as a UX designer, illustrator, author and maker who has transitioned from academia to industry, and is currently a user experience designer at Microsoft.
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By Mohana Das (Author)
Want to become a designer, but don’t know how? Stuck in a mundane job where your creative skills are wasting away? Want a sneak peek into corporate life, and tips to navigate the insane web of politics?
Professional designer, and former software engineer, Mohana Das talks about her journey into the world of User Experience (UX) Design in India – without any formal training or design education. This short, succinct eBook describes in detail how to crack a completely new career track, and the preparation required to dive into it head first. If you are already a designer, are a design student, or are aspiring to be a designer – this is the book for you.
The book also describes the dynamics involved between different stakeholders in a corporate setting, and the diplomacy and politics it sometimes involves. It gives you a preview of life as an entry-level designer in corporate India – including the pros and the cons. It also offers a brief look at the infamous Impostor Syndrome plaguing young (mostly female) designers in the industry.
8. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
By Don Norman (Author)
One of the world’s great designers shares his vision of “the fundamental principles of great and meaningful design”, that’s “even more relevant today than it was when first published” (Tim Brown, CEO, IDEO).
Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door.
The fault, argues this ingenious — even liberating — book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. The problems range from ambiguous and hidden controls to arbitrary relationships between controls and functions, coupled with a lack of feedback or other assistance and unreasonable demands on memorization.
The Design of Everyday Things shows that good, usable design is possible. The rules are simple: make things visible, exploit natural relationships that couple function and control, and make intelligent use of constraints. The goal: guide the user effortlessly to the right action on the right control at the right time.
The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how — and why — some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them.
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