Reading List

An excessive list of thing to read

Main Curriculum Reading

User Research and Interviewing

• Just Enough Research by Erika Hall

• The Why, How and What of User Research, Part 1 by Manish C

• The Why, How and What of User Research, Part 2 by Manish C

• The GV research sprint: a 4-day process for answering important startup questions by Michael Margolis

• Interviewing Users by Jakob Nielsen

• User Interviews – The Beginner’s Guide by Chris Mears

• Interviewing Humans by Erika Hall

• Never Ask What They Want — 3 Better Questions to Ask in User Interviews by Charles Liu

• Uncovering user goals with the Episodic Interview by Dr. David Travis

Prototyping and Usability Testing

• What Sketches (and Prototypes) Are and Are Not [PDF] by Bill Buxton

• The Guide to Wireframing by UX Pin

• What a Prototype Is (and Is Not) by Arijit Banerjee

• Building Clickthrough Prototypes To Support Participatory Design by Svetlin Denkov

• Mental Models – Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior by Indi Young

• Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug

Personas, Experience Mapping and Behavior

• A Closer Look At Personas: What They Are And How They Work (Part 1) by Shlomo Goltz

• A Closer Look At Personas: A Guide To Developing The Right Ones (Part 2) by Shlomo Goltz

• Replacing Personas with Characters by Alan Klement

• An Introduction to User Journeys by Jason Hobbs

• Empathy Maps for UX by TadPull

• DIY Experience Map by Silvana Churruca

• The Anatomy of an Experience Map by Chris Risdon

• Mapping Experiences [PDF] by Adaptive Path

• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal

• Behavior Model by B.J. Fogg

UI Design Minor Reading

Accessibility and Universal Design

• Jeffrey Zeldman: 20 Years of Web Design Community by Lynda.com

• Understanding Progressive Enhancement by Aaron Gustafson

• A Web for Everyone by Sarah Horton & Whitney Quesenbery

• The Inclusion Principle by Margit Link-Rodrigue

• Reframing Accessibility for the Web by Anne Gibson

• Accessible Interface Design by Adrian Rapp

• Universal Design: Process, Principles, and Applications by University of Washington

Asset Optimization and Performance

• How to make a performance budget by Dan Mall

• Performance as Design by Brad Frost

• Image Performance by Lara Swanson

• Loading Web Fonts with the Web Font Loader by Robin Rendle

• Improving UX Through Front-End Performance by Lara Hogan

• Remove Render Blocking Javascript by Google Developers Team

• Why Performance Matters, Part 1 by Denys Mishunov

• Why Performance Matters, Part 2 by Denys Mishunov

Design Systems

• In Search of a Living Design System by Jina Bolton

• Writing an Interface Style Guide by Jina Bolton

• Getting Started With Pattern Libraries by Anna Debenham

• Creating Style Guides by Susan Robertson

• Styleguides.io

• StyleTil.es by Samantha Warren

• Style Tiles and How They Work by Samantha Warren

• Atomic Design by Brad Frost

• Design Systems by Laura Kalbag

• From Pages to Patterns: An Exercise for Everyone by Charlotte Jackson

• Object-Oriented UX by Sophia Voychehovski

• Design Systems: Building for the Future by Chris Coyier

Front-End Development Minor Reading

Progressive Enhancement and Accessibility

• Understanding Progressive Enhancement by Aaron Gustafson

• Reframing Accessibility for the Web by Anne Gibson

• ARIA and Progressive Enhancement by Derek Featherstone

• The Accessibility of WAI-ARIA by Detlev Fischer

• Practical ARIA Examples by Heydon Pickering

• Making Modal Windows Better for Everyone by Scott O’Hara

Performance Budgeting

• Why Performance Matters, Part 1 by Denys Mishunov

• Why Performance Matters, Part 2 by Denys Mishunov

• How to make a performance budget by Dan Mall

• Performance as Design by Brad Frost

• Google Developers Web Fundamentals: Performance

• Preventing the Performance Hit from Custom Fonts by Chris Coyier

• Image Performance by Lara Swanson

• Website Performance: What To Know and What You Can Do by Christian Heilmann

• Improving UX Through Front-End Performance by Lara Hogan

• Performance Budget Builder by Brad Frost

Front-End Systems Architecture

• More than one way to skin a website by Scott O’Hara

• Project starter by Scott O’Hara

• About HTML semantics and front-end architecture by Nicolas Gallagher

• A Good Front-End Architecture by Matt Carella

• Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS (SMACSS) by Jonathan Snook

• BEM 101 by Robin Rendle

• Grunt for People Who Think Things Like Grunt are Weird and Hard by Chris Coyier

Strategy Minor Reading

Business Model Canvases

• Start with Why: Creating a value proposition with the Golden Circle model by Dave Chaffey

• The 20 Minute Business Plan: Business Model Canvas Made Easy by Alex Cowan

• Canvassing a project by Andy Thornton

• Why Lean Canvas vs Business Model Canvas? by LeanStack

• How to choose the right UX metrics for your product by Kerry Rodden

• Why vanity metrics are dangerous by Eric Ries

• Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics by Eric Ries

• The Value Proposition Canvas by Fred Voorhorst

Product Roadmapping

• Ask a Product Manager: Effective Product Roadmaps by Janna Bastow

• How do you make a product roadmap? on Quora

• What are the best techniques to make a product roadmap? on Quora

• No more features on product roadmaps — Have themes or goals instead! by Marc Abraham

• Product Prioritisation 101 by Martin Eriksson

Domain Analysis

• Concept Mapping [PDF] by John Kolko

• Experience Principles & Value Promises [PDF] by John Kolko

• Wicked Problems: Methods for Synthesizing Data and Developing Ideas by John Kolko

• User Experience and Business Analysis – where do they crossover? by Jane Dallaway