While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top Product Design books.
1. Solving Product Design Exercises: Questions & Answers (2018)
Practice your product design and UX skills. Prepare for your next job interview. Redesign the NYC metrocard system. Design a dashboard for a general practitioner. Redesign an ATM. Learn how to solve and present exercises like these, that top startups use to interview designers for product design and UI/UX roles. Today top companies are looking for business-minded designers who are not just focused on visuals. With this book you can practice this kind of mindset, prepare for job interview, learn how to interview other designers and find concepts for projects for your portfolio….
2. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition (2013)
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…
3. Product Design And Development, 5 Ed (2017)
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4. Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer) (2014)
Value Proposition Design helps you tackle the core challenge of every business — creating compelling products and services customers want to buy. This highly practical book, paired with its online companion, will teach you the processes and tools you need to create products that sell.Using the same stunning visual format as the authors’ global bestseller, Business Model Generation, this sequel explains how to use the “Value Proposition Canvas” to design, test, create, and manage products and services customers actually want.Value Proposition Design is for anyone who has been frustrated by new…
5. The Industrial Design Reference & Specification Book: Everything Industrial Designers Need to Know Every Day (2013)
To make designs that work and endure (and are also legal), designers need to know—or be able to find—an endless number of details. Whether it’s what kind of glue needs to be used on a certain surface, metric equivalents, thread sizes, or how to apply for a patent, these details are essential and must be readily available so designers can create successful products efficiently. The Industrial Design Reference & Specification Book provides designers with a comprehensive handbook they can turn to over and over again.These pages are filled with information that is…
6. Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design (2012)
There are many ways in which a product can be manufactured but most designers know only a handful of techniques. Informative and incredibly easy to use, this bestselling book discusses more than a hundred production methods in detail. Making It appeals not only to product designers but also to interior, furniture, and graphic designers who need access to a range of production methods, as well as to all students of design. This expanded edition includes nine new processes and an all-new section of over 40 finishing techniques….
7. The Industrial Design Reader (2003)
With input from a diverse range of industry experts/designers, theorists, critics, historians, and curators, this anthology is the first to focus exclusively on the history of industrial design. This pioneering guide traces the entire history of industrial design, industrialization, and mass production from 1850 until today. Sixty comprehensive essays written by designers, theorists, advertisers, historians, and curators detail the most crucial movements, issues, and accomplishments of industrial design. They combine news reports on the very first design workshops, aesthetic manifestos, lectures, and more from the biggest names in the…
8. Prototyping and Modelmaking for Product Design (Portfolio Skills) (2012)
Building prototypes and models is an essential component of any design activity. Modern product development is a multi-disciplinary effort that relies on prototyping in order to explore new ideas and test them sufficiently before they become actual products. A comprehensive modern prototyping approach is crucial to making informed design decisions, and forms a strategic part of a successful designer’s toolkit….
9. Research Methods for Product Design (Portfolio Skills Product Design) (2013)
This book provides the reader with a comprehensive, relevant, and visually rich insight into the world of research methods specifically aimed at product designers. It includes practical case studies and tutorials that will inform, inspire, and help you to conduct product design research better.Product designers need a comprehensive understanding of research methods as their day-to-day work routinely involves them observing people, asking questions, searching for information, making and testing ideas, and ultimately generating ‘solutions’ to ‘problems’. Manifest in the design process is the act of research….
10. Loose Leaf for Product Design and Development (2019)
Pioneers in the field, Cateora, Gilly, and Graham continue to set the standard in this 18th edition of International Marketing with their well-rounded perspective of international markets that encompass history, geography, language, and religion as well as economics, which helps students see the cultural and environmental uniqueness of any nation or region. The dynamic nature of the international marketplace is reflected in the number of substantially improved and expanded topics in this 18th, including the following over 100 new academic articles and their findings. All data, text, photos and images…
11. Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy (2017)
Swipe to Unlock is a comprehensive guide on the must-know concepts of technology and business strategy. ***Swipe to Unlock was updated in 2019 to to cover the latest developments in the world of tech.*** This from the and has been featured in , , and Swipe to Unlock was touted as by Jeremy Schifeling. By answering real-world questions like this, Software Development, Business Models & Strategies, Economics, Hacking & Security, Hardware & Robots, The Internet, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Technology Policy, Emerging Markets, Future Trends,…
12. Collaborative Product Design: Help Any Team Build a Better Experience (2019)
You can launch a new app or website in days by piecing together frameworks and hosting on AWS. Implementation is no longer the problem. But that speed to market just makes it tougher to confirm that your team is actually building the right product.Ideal for agile teams and lean organizations, this guide includes 11 practical tools to help you collaborate on strategy, user research, and UX. Hundreds of real-world tips help you facilitate productive meetings and create good collaboration habits. Designers, developers, and product owners will learn how to build…
13. Designing Products People Love: How Great Designers Create Successful Products (2016)
How can you create products that successfully find customers? With this practical book, you’ll learn from some of the best product designers in the field, from companies like Facebook and LinkedIn to up-and-coming contenders. You’ll understand how to discover and interpret customer pain, and learn how to use this research to guide your team through each step of product creation.Written for designers, product managers, and others who want to communicate better with designers, this book is essential reading for anyone who contributes to the product creation process….
Best Product Design Books Everyone Should Read
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Smart Technologies and Innovations in Design for Control of Technological Processes and Objects: Economy and Production: Proceeding of the International Science and Technology Conference "FarEastСon-2018" Volume 1
Author(s): Denis B. Solovev
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2020, Size: 28 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2407790
Carbon Footprints: Case Studies from the Building, Household, and Agricultural Sectors
Author(s): Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Publisher: Springer Singapore, Year: 2020, Size: 3 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2411501
Designing Electronic Product Enclosures
Author(s): Tony Serksnis
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 4 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2249902
The Praxis of Product Design in Collaboration with Engineering
Author(s): Wayne C. Chung
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 5 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2252413
Customization-Oriented Design of Product-Service System
Author(s): Wenyan Song
Publisher: Springer Singapore, Year: 2019, Size: 5 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2254748
Mindful Design: How and Why to Make Design Decisions for the Good of Those Using Your Product
Author(s): Scott Riley
Publisher: Apress, Year: 2019, Size: 11 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2296689
Social Life Cycle Assessment: Case Studies from Agri and Food Sectors
Author(s): Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Publisher: Springer, Year: 2019, Size: 1 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2307064
Multisensory Packaging: Designing New Product Experiences
Author(s): Carlos Velasco, Charles Spence
Publisher: Springer International Publishing,Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2019, Size: 8 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2311265
Models, Methods and Tools for Product Service Design: The Manutelligence Project
Author(s): Laura Cattaneo, Sergio Terzi
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 7 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2311433
Please note that this booklist is not errorless. Some books are truly chart-busters according to USA Today, others are written by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.