Books for UX and Strategic Designers

When working with my clients, team mates or people trying to set foot in UX and Strategic Design, they frequently ask for books that I recommend.

This starts with general ideas within the fields of business strategy or innovation to more specific resources in Design and Research.

Below, you find a list of my most frequent recommendations.

• Traction – Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares
• Design Sprint – Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz
• Lean Analytics – Alistair Croll, Benjamin Yoskovitz
• The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch
• Value Proposition Design – Alex Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Greg Bernada, Alan Smith
• Business Model Generation – Alex Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur
• Testing Business Ideas – David J. Bland, Alex Osterwalder
• Future Organization Playbook – Dark Horse Berlin (currently only available in German)
• Digital Innovation Playbook – Dark Horse Berlin
• The Mom Test – Rob Fitzpatrick

If you are looking for more ideas on what to read next, jump over to my Book Backlog to see what I am currently reading, have in my book shelf and more.