4 Books Every Product / UX Designer MUST Read!

Are you a Product / UX Designer? Are you looking to start in the Product / UX Design industry? We give an overview of the four books you NEED to read to become a better Product Designer!
Covering a range of fields, from Design Sprints, growth hacking, creating powerful moments for customers / clients and giving feedback as part of a team!
Brittni gives an overview of each text, and explains why it is vital that all AJ&Smart employees, whether they have a background in UX or not, have to read and understand the lessons in these books!
ALL BOOK LINKS:
SPRINT (Jake Knapp):
jakeknapp.com/sprint/
Buy: www.amazon.com/Sprint-Solve-P...
HACKING GROWTH (Sean Ellis & Morgan Brown):
growthhackers.com/
Buy: www.amazon.com/Hacking-Growth...
THE POWER OF MOMENTS (Chip & Dan Heath):
heathbrothers.com/the-power-o...
Buy: www.amazon.com/Power-Moments-...
RADICAL CANDOR (Kim Scott):
www.radicalcandor.com/
Buy: www.amazon.com/Radical-Candor...
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[@AJSmart]

Hey! 👋 What books 📖 would you recommend for Product / UX Designers?!? Which books in the field of digital design inspire you?! 🎉📖👍 Let us know in the comments!!! ↙️

[@jonathancourtney1175]

MONDAY BABY

[@AJSmart]

@@jonathancourtney1175 #MondayRelease Premier day.

[@TomMiskin]

A bit more upstream maybe but I think lean enterprise, exponential organisations, design to grow and the hard thing about hard things are all awesome reads.

[@TomMiskin]

inspired by Marty Cagan also comes highly recommended, but it's on the shelf not read for me, so I'm passing other's commendations

[@AJSmart]

@@TomMiskin Offft Tim above and beyond with the recommendations! We'll see if people at AJ&Smart towers have read any of these! Thanks!

[@ameyagodbole435]

I'm in a career transition, from being a marketer to..hopefully being a successful UX designer in the near future. I love how collaborative and helpful the whole community is, especially you and AJ & Smart team. I've watched several and still have 10s of your videos in a playlist. You're doing a great job. So, thank you! I hope I get a chance to work or collaborate with your team one day. Cheers!

[@rohitslb7455]

Brittni & AJ&Smart Team👏really thanks for taking your time out for us apart from your busy schedule and will definitely will buy the recommended books for sure. And really look forward for more good videos, tutorials, suggestions, learnings, from Brittni & AJ&Smart Team👏 going forward and all the best guys to your awesome content on UIUX SKILLS and achievements. KUDOS Guys !!

[@somyagarg2556]

Recently entered the field of UX designing and just recieved my copy of sprint. I am so excited to read 😍

[@awa6123]

they way you talk and how you make things easy is really amazing! I'm sure you have so pure heart , I ❤️ u .

[@AJSmart]

Thanks Awa! Very kind!

[@ExploringDiaries]

Sprint has an actionable tone right from the get go, the book is focused on the part of making things happen and in an organized manner. The use cases, the illustrations, the detailed breakdown & lucid context makes it indeed an important book for folks in product design/management. It has been really helpful in our project applications. There is so much clarity.

[@AJSmart]

Amazing to hear it has been successful for you!

[@faizurrehman]

Recently I made book series sequence! - Sprint (Almost finishing) - Hacking growth - Blue Ocean - The Lean Startup I am just going to complete these books in sequence! Thank you for telling for all the books! All are great!

[@AJSmart]

Thanks Faizur! Great list! Hopefully you can add some from the video too. Blue Ocean is a big one for us here at AJ&Smart! 📖📖📖📖

[@faizurrehman]

@@AJSmart Yes thanks but really you guys doing amazing job! you deserve for more view!s

[@AJSmart]

@@faizurrehman Aww thanks Faizur! We're working on it haha!

[@_sp_sp]

She is my favorite. Just puts me in a good mood no matter how bad my day is going :)

[@qobalaihromi]

Thanks for the book recommendation :D

[@HafeezZarim]

I bought the book. and the content is awesome. gona test it on monday!

[@mirnarodriguez4599]

I am 2/4 on the books you recommend and have on my wishlist the other 2 for a long time! My recommendation for any UX Designer would be "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely, "Hook" by Nir Eryal and "The power of Habit" by Charles Duhhig :)

[@AJSmart]

Great Mirna, which ones have you read?! Good recommendations too!

[@mirnarodriguez4599]

@@AJSmart damn! A week went too fast!! I have read Radical Candor and Hacking Growth :) 2 more to go!

[@AJSmart]

@@mirnarodriguez4599 Wow that's great Mirna! What did you think of them?!

[@mirnarodriguez4599]

@@AJSmart I also wanted to call her Kimmy but I bet she wouldn't like it :P Other than that, "Radical Candor" should be a must for every manager in the planet or middle management...should be also read by employees so they don't freak out when you try to be open and understanding :P About Hacking Growth, there is so much value in there that I think I have something highlighted in every page of that book, at least every CEO and people involved with product, marketing, even HR and UX teams should read it. When you design with strategy in mind, you are a better designer.

[@robertrosshoff6458]

Hey guys, your videos are fantastic :-) here are some of the (design) books I read and strongly recommend: 1. Josef Müller-Brockmann: Grid Systems 2. Tim Brown: Change by Design 3. Steve Krug: Don't make me think 4. Susan M. Weinschenk: 100 Things Every Designer needs to know about people 5. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow (not a design book but helps a lot with balancing work and motivation and life!) all very classic, maybe a bit oldschool, but those really helped me to get a good foundation. love your tips, I'll start with "sprints" as soon as possible!

[@aymanz83]

Thx Brittni & AJ&Smart team👏, I read part of Design for Emotions Arron Walter, Design of everyday things Don Norman & Don't make me think Steve Krug, and I think they changed my life as a designer. I added your list to my list to must-read 👍

[@AJSmart]

Hey Ayman! Design of Everyday Things and Don't Make Me Think are both staples here on the bookshelf. Very good / helpful suggestions for viewers thank you!

[@davido.andersen1792]

"I'm reading them all at once. Like one big book" Dead. 😂

[@user-yi9dc3kt3v]

Thanks you so much

[@bazimnubailaz]

This is such great list 🙌🙌Thank you so much Although I was expecting the design of everyday things by don norman to be suggested as a UX book

[@AJSmart]

That's a classic!

[@maria.33311]

Love the bloopers at the end of every video! :)

[@anandhihariharan1780]

I will add "The Making of a Manager" by Julie Zhou to the list for folks managing or looking to manage designers in their team.

[@keepproductive]

SPRINT is just an amazing book for general productivity too!

[@AJSmart]

It really is! 3 more amazing texts featured in this video too! Check it out tomorrow!

[@mikebelmont5919]

agree, SPRINT changed my mindset in case of solving problems generally.

[@aryanasdf3424]

OMG wow Keep Productive I love your channel

[@Taskade]

Awesome collectino of books, thanks for sharing :)

[@AJSmart]

Enjoy the reading!

[@baracjohn3913]

I'd recommend the book Shape up by the guys at Basecamp they have a few concepts I find interesting

[@djtheman9]

Wow. This list fye

[@crystal_2020]

Thank you ❤️❤️❤️

[@AJSmart]

No problem Crystal!

[@quirkydad6083]

Boom! Eighth! Nailed it!

[@AJSmart]

Haha! Love it! 🎱

[@siddiaz1623]

Im watching till the end

[@kunjbiharibudania4866]

This girl is smart🧐 great recommendations 👍💝

[@agnosticii]

sticky = catchy* 😋 love the vid, thanks!

[@divyanshpandey9140]

One question, I'm a beginner in this field, should I learn about sprint at the start or first I learn the foundational topics than start with sprint.?

[@RazibSaha]

What about The Design of Everyday things?

[@RyandeMetz]

Where's the attendee list up in here??? Love those books, you'll never look at the world the same again once you read them!!! 😍

[@AJSmart]

Cheers Ryan, you had a VIP pass for the premier but we couldn't let you in with trainers on... HAHAH 🎉🎉🎉

[@let4049]

Great video!😻 I have been looking for books on this design for a long time. I still do not know much English, but I understood the main idea. It is a pity that there is no Russian subtitles (

[@AJSmart]

Ahh sorry! Hopefully the content is still of use though!

[@Williamjosep]

Britney is a rare gem, she is so funny!

[@AJSmart]

haha thanks Yosep!

[@SuarezMilan]

I noticed the Radical Candor book you recommended has a different subtitle as the one on their website (Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity). Are they different editions, could you please clarify?

[@AJSmart]

Hey Frank, good spot! Yes it looks like there are two different covers, perhaps for the different American and European publishing houses? There's an orangey version and a white version out there, should both be identical texts though!

[@SuarezMilan]

@@AJSmart Ok great! Thanks for the quick reply :)

[@AJSmart]

@@SuarezMilan No Problem Frank! Enjoy the reading!

[@anthonymcbride9630]

Ahhhh the sound of the tapping on the books >>>> lol

[@Calumrussell88]

Ninth? Sorry 😅 Looking forward to Premier Day!

[@AJSmart]

Magic number 9!

[@zachariah7114]

MUST read or NEEDS to read? NEEDS sounds a lot better, as it puts the decision on the user and doesn't sound like they're having something forced upon them: you MUST read this. Just my 2 cents.

[@aleynamutlu4206]

Hey hey you can ask IJ

[@shenglongz]

"Steal like an artist" , from Austin Kleon.

[@AJSmart]

Excellent book!

[@SAMER695]

I'm gonna subscribe cuz she's lovely.

[@AJSmart]

Thanks Samer!

[@kiddakode4630]

she's really funny haha

[@AJSmart]

Awww thanks!

[@Shaharatunsimi435]

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[@vantage789]

If anyone needed evidence that we live in an ironic culture they can reference this video.

[@jonathancourtney1175]

FIRST.... I know... that's sad.

[@AJSmart]

🎉🎉🎉It's only sad if we make it sad...

[@mujtabanadeem7116]

Are you really small or are those books really big?

[@los_litres]

Second... this is also pretty sad...

[@AJSmart]

Hahah nahhh it's fine, this one time...

[@jonathancourtney1175]

Damnnnnnnn

[@AJSmart]

Jonathan Courtney 😅

[@keblee2443]

I don’t really feel like saying “our company requires us to read these” is really all that meaningful when the people who wrote it are literally your bosses. Seriously, you basically just said “my boss wrote these books and made it mandatory to read them!” Not a selling point... I just hope they didn’t make you buy them too. That would be messed up.

[@sanaraheem5000]

I watch your videos mostly because of your goofy self

[@shivamtiwari4346]

OVERACTING

[@AJSmart]

😞

[@arvindvishwan6131]

Naaaaaaah bruh.. shes being herself and thats really cute :D

[@arvindvishwan6131]

🙂

[@samuelfabayo1370]

She’s cute