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Nate and Tim’s reading list

The books Nate and Tim keep handing designers.

Convergent 4

The titles that landed on both.

Inspired, Marty Cagan. On both lists. Lean UX (3E), Jeff Gothelf & Josh Seiden, 2016. On both lists. Radical Candor, Kim Scott. On both lists. The Lean Startup, Eric Ries, 2011. On both lists.

Nate 5

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, Nir Eyal. Nate's shelf. Sprint, Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky & Braden Kowitz, 2016. Nate's shelf. Start With Why, Simon Sinek, 2009. Nate's shelf. The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, Al Ries & Jack Trout, 1993. Nate's shelf. The Lean Product Playbook, Dan Olsen. Nate's shelf.

Tim 118

User experience 23

Accessibility for Everyone, Laura Kalbag. Tim's shelf. Data Driven Design, Christopher Wong. Tim's shelf. Deceptive Patterns, Harry Brignull. Tim's shelf. Design for Impact, Erin Weigel. Tim's shelf. Design for Real Life, Sara Wachter-Boettcher. Tim's shelf. Design for the Real World, Victor Papanek. Tim's shelf. Designing for Behavior Change (2nd Edition), Stephen Wendel. Tim's shelf. Disability Visibility, Alice Wong. Tim's shelf. Don't Make Me Think, Steve Krug. Tim's shelf. Gamestorming, Dave Gray. Tim's shelf. Good Services: How to Design Services that Work, Lou Downe. Tim's shelf. How to Make Sense of Any Mess, Abby Covert. Tim's shelf. Inclusive Design for a Digital World, Regine Gilbert. Tim's shelf. Just Enough Research, Erika Hall. Tim's shelf. Laws of UX, Jon Yablonski. Tim's shelf. Life and Death Design, Kate Swindler. Tim's shelf. Nudge, Richard Thaler. Tim's shelf. The Elements of User Experience, Jesse James Garrett. Tim's shelf. The User Experience Team of One, Leah Buley. Tim's shelf. Think like a UX Researcher, David Travis. Tim's shelf. Thinking Fast & Slow, Daniel Kahneman. Tim's shelf. User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play, Cliff Kuang. Tim's shelf. UX Strategy, Jaime Levy. Tim's shelf.

Interface & interaction 11

About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Alan Cooper & Robert Reimann. Tim's shelf. Atomic Design, Brad Frost. Tim's shelf. Data Visualization Handbook, Juuso Koponen & Jonatan Hildén. Tim's shelf. Designing Interface Animation: Improving the User Experience Through Animation, Val Head. Tim's shelf. Designing User Interfaces, Mike & Diana Malewicz. Tim's shelf. Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production, Johanna Drucker. Tim's shelf. Information Dashboard Design, Stephen Few. Tim's shelf. Making Design Decisions, DesignerTom. Tim's shelf. Practical UI, Adham Dannaway. Tim's shelf. Refactoring UI, Adam Wathan. Tim's shelf. The Illusion of Life, Ollie Johnston & Frank Thomas. Tim's shelf.

Product 6

Continuous Discovery Habits, Teresa Torres. Tim's shelf. Designing Products People Love, Scott Hurff. Tim's shelf. Escaping the Build Trap, Melissa Perri. Tim's shelf. Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction, Derek Thompson. Tim's shelf. Shape Up, Ryan Singer. Tim's shelf. Well Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love, John Kolko. Tim's shelf.

Graphic design 12

Art Direction for the Web, Andy Clarke. Tim's shelf. Branding in five and a half steps, Michael Johnson. Tim's shelf. Elements of Typographic Style, Robert Bringhurst. Tim's shelf. Graphic Design Theory - Readings from the Field, Helen Armstrong. Tim's shelf. Grid Systems in Graphic Design, Josef Müller-Brockmann. Tim's shelf. Just My Type: A Book about Fonts, Simon Garfield. Tim's shelf. Process: Visual Journeys in Graphic Design, Banker Wessel. Tim's shelf. Smile in the Mind: Witty Thinking in Graphic Design, Beryl McAlhone. Tim's shelf. The App Icon Book, Michael Flarup. Tim's shelf. The Geometry of Type, Stephen Coles. Tim's shelf. The Mac is Not a Typewriter, Robin Williams. Tim's shelf. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte. Tim's shelf.

Theory & principles 9

Blindspot, Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald. Tim's shelf. Curation is Creation, Colin Wright. Tim's shelf. Gamification Guide, Mambo.io. Tim's shelf. How to Speak Machine, John Maeda. Tim's shelf. Living With Complexity, Don Norman. Tim's shelf. Mastery, Robert Greene. Tim's shelf. The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman. Tim's shelf. The Shape of Design, Frank Chimero. Tim's shelf. Universal Principles of Design, William Lidwell. Tim's shelf.

Business & strategy 25

Accelerate, Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim. Tim's shelf. Anything You Want, Derek Sivers. Tim's shelf. Blue Ocean Strategy, W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne. Tim's shelf. Build Better Products, Laura Klein. Tim's shelf. Company of One, Paul Jarvis. Tim's shelf. Competing Against Luck, Clayton Christensen. Tim's shelf. Creative Strategy and the Business of Design, Douglas Davis. Tim's shelf. Crucial Conversations - Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Joseph Grenny. Tim's shelf. Great by Choice, Jim Collins. Tim's shelf. Million Dollar Weekend, Noah Kagan. Tim's shelf. Outcomes Over Output, Josh Seiden. Tim's shelf. Play Bigger, Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead & Kevin Maney. Tim's shelf. Playing to Win, A.G. Lafley. Tim's shelf. Positioning, Al Ries & Jack Trout. Tim's shelf. Principles, Ray Dalio. Tim's shelf. Product Management for UX People, Christian Crumlish. Tim's shelf. The Discipline of Market Leaders, Michael Treacy & Fred Wiersema. Tim's shelf. The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded, Michael Watkins. Tim's shelf. The Hero and the Outlaw, Margaret Mark & Carol S. Pearson. Tim's shelf. The Infinite Game, Simon Sinek. Tim's shelf. The Personal MBA, Josh Kaufman. Tim's shelf. The Power of Whole Human Leadership, Victoria Pelletier. Tim's shelf. Right Kind of Wrong, Amy C. Edmondson. Tim's shelf. The Win Without Pitching Manifesto, Blair Enns. Tim's shelf. This is Marketing, Seth Godin. Tim's shelf.

Creativity & innovation 13

10 Faces of Innovation, Tom Kelley. Tim's shelf. Creativity Inc, Ed Catmull. Tim's shelf. Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday. Tim's shelf. Feck Perfuction, James Victore. Tim's shelf. Herding Tigers, Todd Henry. Tim's shelf. Now Try Something Weirder, Michael Johnson. Tim's shelf. Pocket Full of Do, Chris Do & Min Choi. Tim's shelf. Show Your Work!, Austin Kleon. Tim's shelf. Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon. Tim's shelf. The Creative Act, Rick Rubin. Tim's shelf. The Creative Habit, Twyla Tharp. Tim's shelf. War of Art, Steven Pressfield. Tim's shelf. Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite, Paul Arden. Tim's shelf.

Career 13

Articulating Design Decisions, Tom Greever. Tim's shelf. Design is a Job, Mike Monteiro. Tim's shelf. Essentialism, Greg McKeown. Tim's shelf. How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul, Adrian Shaughnessy. Tim's shelf. How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie. Tim's shelf. Oh Shit What Now? Honest advice for new graphic designers, Craig Oldham. Tim's shelf. Range, David Epstein. Tim's shelf. So Good They Can't Ignore You, Cal Newport. Tim's shelf. Solving Product Design Exercises, Artiom Dashinsky. Tim's shelf. The Art of Persuasion: Winning Without Intimidation, Bob Burg. Tim's shelf. The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron. Tim's shelf. The Path to Senior Product Designer, Artiom Dashinsky. Tim's shelf. The Tao of Leadership, John Heider. Tim's shelf.

Tech & society 6

But What if We're Wrong, Chuck Klosterman. Tim's shelf. Ruined by Design, Mike Monteiro. Tim's shelf. Sustainable Web Design, Tom Greenwood. Tim's shelf. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, Eric Jorgenson. Tim's shelf. You Are Not a Gadget, Jaron Lanier. Tim's shelf. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig. Tim's shelf.