Our first edition of 2024 is loaded with recommended reads by our designers, aimed to inspire and revolutionize your approach to design and user experience as a practice! From Roberto Verganti's vision of design-driven innovation to Mike Monteiro's insights on ethical design responsibilities, this collection is your gateway to transformative thinking.
By Roberto Verganti | Recommended by Jymy Parhiala
A compelling exploration of how breakthrough innovations can be achieved through a deep understanding of customer needs and desires. Unlike traditional approaches that rely solely on customer feedback, Verganti argues for a more proactive and visionary strategy where designers and innovators become interpreters of societal and cultural changes. The book emphasizes the importance of design thinking in driving innovation, encouraging organizations to go beyond incremental improvements and instead seek radical, game-changing ideas.
By presenting case studies and practical examples, Verganti demonstrates how companies can foster a culture of design-driven innovation, where creativity and meaning take center stage in the product development process. This insightful and thought-provoking book challenges conventional thinking about innovation, offering a fresh perspective on how businesses can differentiate themselves and create products that truly resonate with users.
Tufte’s books are the fundamental works on data visualisation, charts and graphs. They will change your view on this topic that occurs in all digital designs today. It is a must-read to develop into a more advanced UX-designer, and will teach you why to never, ever, use a 3-dimensional pie chart.
The author raises the crucial topic of Design ethics and the responsibility when it comes to creating products or user experiences. As designers, we need to see ourselves as gatekeepers of what we are bringing into the world, and what we choose not to bring into the world.
By Cyrus Dominik Khazaeli | Recommended by Felicitas Petters
This underestimated book offers a design approach based on theories from cognitive psychology. It examines neurological and psychological processes involved in interacting with digital products and derives basic rules for their design. If you want to better understand when and why design systems and UX patterns work and when they don't, read this book.
