A curated collection of design books that have shaped my professional practice and personal development—curated by Greg Robleto (robleto.com).
- 📚 Business
- 📚 Product Design
- 📚 UX Research
- 📚 Interaction Design
- 📚 User Interface Design
- 📚 Beginner Design 101
- 📚 Design Management
.
A curated selection of business books focusing on innovation, product development, and organizational growth. Includes foundational works on startup methodology, design thinking, and business transformation strategies.
- 📔 Creativity by Ed Catmull
- 📔 Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
- 📔 Good to Great by Jim Collins
- 📔 Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagann
- 📔 The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
- 📔 The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- 📔 Sprint by Jake Knapp
- 📔 Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler
.
A curated list of essential product design books covering user experience fundamentals, behavioral psychology, product strategy, and design thinking methodologies. These resources help designers create engaging digital products through proven frameworks and research-backed principles.
- 📕 Build Better Products by Laura Klein
- 📕 The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero
- 📕 The Design Thinking Playbook by Michael Lewrick, Patrick Link, and Larry Leifer
- 📕 Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
- 📕 Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug
- 📕 Hooked by Nir Eyal
- 📕 The Inmates are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper
- 📕 Lean UX by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden
- 📕 The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen
- 📕 Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
- 📕 Scaling Up Excellence by Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao
- 📕 Sprint by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Braden Kowitz
- 📕 The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
- 📕 Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler
- 📕 UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want by Jaime Levy
.
A curated selection of UX research books focused on user research methodologies, interview techniques, usability testing approaches, and data analysis frameworks to help researchers conduct effective studies and deliver actionable insights.
- 📗 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People by Susan M. Weinschenk
- 📗 A Project Guide to UX Design: For User Experience Designers in the Field or in the Making by Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler
- 📗 Bottlenecks: Aligning UX Design with User Psychology by David Evans
- 📗 The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
- 📗 Designing for Behavior Change by Stephen Wendel
- 📗 Designing for Emotion by Aarron Walter
- 📗 Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
- 📗 The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web by Jesse James Garrett
- 📗 Laws of UX by Jon Yablonski
- 📗 Observing the User Experience, Second Edition: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research by Mike Kuniavsky
- 📗 Understanding Users: A Practical Guide to User Research Methods by Kathy Baxter and Catherine Courage
- 📗 The User is Always Right by Steve Mulder
.
A comprehensive collection of books focused on interaction design principles, patterns, and best practices. These resources help designers create intuitive and engaging digital experiences through effective interface design, user flows, and interactive elements.
- 📘 About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin, and Christopher Noessel
- 📘 The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
- 📘 Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell
- 📘 Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
- 📘 Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things by Don Norman
- 📘 Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction by Jenny Preece, Helen Sharp, Yvonne Rogers
- 📘 Interaction Design: Creating Innovative Applications and Devices by Dan Saffer
- 📘 Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences by Stephen Anderson
- 📘 The Art of Interaction Design by John Zimmerman
- 📘 The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience by Rex Hartson and Pardha Pyla
- 📘 The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience by Rex Hartson and Pardha Pyla
.
A curated collection of essential UI design books focused on visual design principles, interface patterns, and layout fundamentals to help designers create intuitive and visually appealing user interfaces.
- 📙About Faceby Alan Cooper and Robert Reimann
- 📙 The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
- 📙 Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell
- 📙 Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
- 📙 Designing Visual Interfaces by Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano
- 📙 Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman
- 📙 The Inmates Are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper
- 📙 Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug
- 📙 Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton
- 📙 Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler
.
An essential reading list for design beginners covering fundamental principles, user-centered design approaches, and core methodologies to build a solid foundation in design practice.
- 📓 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People by Susan M. Weinschenk
- 📓 Design Is a Job by Mike Monteiro
- 📓 Design for Real Life by Eric Meyer and Sara Wachter-Boettcher
- 📓 The Design Sprint by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Braden Kowitz
- 📓 Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
- 📓 Designing with Type by James Craig
- 📓 Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Form and Function by Ellen Lupton
- 📓 The Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests by Jeffrey Rubin
- 📓 How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy
- 📓 The Power of Color in UI Design by Nick Babich
- 📓 The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero
- 📓 Solving Product Design Exercises by Artiom Dashinsky
- 📓 Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell
- 📓 The User Experience Team of One by Leah Buley
- 📓 The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience by Rex Hartson and Pardha Pyla
- 📓 UX Design for Beginners: A Crash Course in 100 Short Lessons by James Royal-Lawson, Per Axbom
- 📓 The UX Design Process: A Beginner's Guide by Nick Babich
- 📓 The Vignelli canon by Massimo Vignelli
.
A collection of essential books for design managers and leaders covering team management, product strategy, organizational design, and leadership principles to effectively guide design teams and drive innovation.
- 📒 Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
- 📒 Design Leadership by Richard Banfield
- 📒 The Design Thinking Playbook by Michael Lewrick, Patrick Link, and Larry Leifer
- 📒 Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
- 📒 Inspired: How To Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
- 📒 The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen
- 📒 Managing Humans by Michael Lopp
- 📒 The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier
- 📒 Org Design for Design Orgs by Peter Merholz
- 📒 The Power of Intentional Leadership by Joanne Miller
- 📒 Scaling Up Excellence by Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao
.