Our list of some of the best Ux Research books & series in recent years. Get inspired by one or more of the following books.
- UX Research: Practical Techniques for Designing Better Products (2016)
- UX Methods: A Quick Guide to User Experience Research Methods (2017)
- Think Like a UX Researcher (2019)
- Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights (2013)
- Validating Product Ideas: Through Lean User Research (2016)
- The User’s Journey: Storymapping Products That People Love (2016)
- UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want (2015)
- Quantifying the User Experience: Practical Statistics for User Research (2016)
- The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide (2013)
- Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter) (2014)
- UX for Lean Startups: Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design (2018)
- Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research (2012)
- The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition (2013)
- Mapping Experiences: A Complete Guide to Creating Value through Journeys, Blueprints, and Diagrams (2016)
UX Research: Practical Techniques for Designing Better Products (2016)
One key responsibility of product designers and UX practitioners is to conduct formal and informal research to clarify design decisions and business needs. But there’s often mystery around product research, with the feeling that you need to be a research Zen master to gather anything useful. Fact is, anyone can conduct product research.
UX Methods: A Quick Guide to User Experience Research Methods (2017)
UX Methods features 50 different research methods. Each method has concise instructions aimed at getting you in the field gathering insights as quickly as possible. A visual example in storyboard form is included with each method. Readers will quickly find a wide range of methods they can apply in numerous situations. Methods cover situations like user testing, discovering user preferences and behaviors, narrowing project focus with stakeholders and much more.
Think Like a UX Researcher (2019)
Think Like a UX Researcher will challenge your preconceptions about user experience (UX) research and encourage you to think beyond the obvious. You’ll discover how to plan and conduct UX research, analyze data, persuade teams to take action on the results and build a career in UX. The book will help you take a more strategic view of product design so you can focus on optimizing the user’s experience.
Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights (2013)
Interviewing is a foundational user research tool that people assume they already possess. Everyone can ask questions, right? Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Interviewing Users provides invaluable interviewing techniques and tools that enable you to conduct informative interviews with anyone. You’ll move from simply gathering data to uncovering powerful insights about people.
Validating Product Ideas: Through Lean User Research (2016)
Want to know what your users are thinking? If you’re a product manager or developer, this book will help you learn the techniques for finding the answers to your most burning questions about your customers. With step-by-step guidance, Validating Product Ideas shows you how to tackle the research to build the best possible product.
The User’s Journey: Storymapping Products That People Love (2016)
Like a good story, successful design is a series of engaging moments structured over time. The User’s Journey will show you how, when, and why to use narrative structure, technique, and principles to ideate, craft, and test a cohesive vision for an engaging outcome. See how a story first approach can transform your product, feature, landing page, flow, campaign, content, or product strategy.
UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want (2015)
User experience (UX) strategy requires a careful blend of business strategy and UX design, but until now, there hasn’t been an easy-to-apply framework for executing it.
Quantifying the User Experience: Practical Statistics for User Research (2016)
Quantifying the User Experience: Practical Statistics for User Research, Second Edition, provides practitioners and researchers with the information they need to confidently quantify, qualify, and justify their data. The book presents a practical guide on how to use statistics to solve common quantitative problems that arise in user research. It addresses questions users face every day, including, Is the current product more usable than our competition?
The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide (2013)
The User Experience Team of One prescribes a range of approaches that have big impact and take less time and fewer resources than the standard lineup of UX deliverables. Whether you want to cross over into user experience or you’re a seasoned practitioner trying to drag your organization forward, this book gives you tools and insight for doing more with less.
Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter) (2014)
Since Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, hundreds of thousands of Web designers and developers have relied on usability guru Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design. Witty, commonsensical, and eminently practical, it’s one of the best-loved and most recommended books on the subject.
UX for Lean Startups: Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design (2018)
p>Great user experiences (UX) are essential for products today, but designing one can be a lengthy and expensive process. With this practical, hands-on book, you’ll learn how to do it faster and smarter using Lean UX techniques.
Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research (2012)
Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research aims to bridge the gap between what digital companies think they know about their users and the actual user experience. Individuals engaged in digital product and service development often fail to conduct user research.
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.
Mapping Experiences: A Complete Guide to Creating Value through Journeys, Blueprints, and Diagrams (2016)
Customers who have inconsistent, broken experiences with products and services are understandably frustrated. But it’s worse when people inside these companies can’t pinpoint the problem because they’re too focused on business processes. This practical book shows your company how to use alignment diagrams to turn valuable customer observations into actionable insight.
Best Ux Research Books You Must Read
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UX Research Methods for Media and Communication Studies: An Introduction to Contemporary Qualitative Methods
Author(s): Angela M. Cirucci, Urszula M. Pruchniewska
ID: 3179173, Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2022, Size: 7 Mb, Format: pdf
User research : improve product and service design and enhance your UX research
Author(s): Stephanie Marsh
ID: 3237831, Publisher: , Year: 2022, Size: 19 Mb, Format: pdf
UX Decoded: Think and Implement User-Centered Research Methodologies, and Expert-Led UX Best Practices
Author(s): Dushyant Kanungo
ID: 3351425, Publisher: BPB Publications, Year: 2022, Size: 2 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are absolutely chart-busters according to Los Angeles Times, others are drafted by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.