It's also a coincidence.

On October 27th, 65438/kloc-0, my schoolmate asked me to recommend books related to experience design, so I began to look everywhere, but I searched Baidu, Zhihu, Douban and Google, but I couldn't find a satisfactory book list. On the contrary, I found three common problems in the online book list:

If user-centered is the criterion of successful Internet products, then reader-centered is the compass of a good book list.

However, when compiling the book list, the author often falls into the curse of knowledge and unconsciously loses this compass.

Therefore, we often see these harmless quotations in the list of books, such as "I have read a few books recently and sorted them out to share with you" and "I recommend some books related to XX that you must read" ... What's more, I immediately threw away the list of books, which in my opinion is the author's laziness and the lack of reader center.

Professional books are limited by the author's knowledge level, language style and writing skills, some are easy to understand and some are obscure. If you don't divide it according to the degree of difficulty, it's like cutting off your toes to adapt to small shoes.

Light makes people give up halfway, but heavy makes people flinch from the industry.

So the author who knows this way will divide the book list into difficulty levels, but another question will appear: which of the ten books you recommended to me should I read first?

I believe this is the personal pain of many small partners who have difficulties in choosing.

In my search results, there are several books recommended several years ago, but I don't know that many of them are out of date, and some have introduced new versions.

Book list, like software, needs to keep pace with the times and iterate constantly.

In view of the above problems, on second thought, why don't I make up a brand-new book list in the current season?

Just like a sentence widely circulated in the entrepreneurial world: any industry has the opportunity to start a business.

Any book list has the opportunity to be rewritten.

So I started to act non-stop. Although what you see in the end is only a simple page, the compilation of the book list has gone through three steps from 0 to 1

Step 1: shortlist

Just like which movies are shortlisted for the Golden Horse Award, in the first step, I collected the following books, books and all the books mentioned in the article and entered the selection pool:

"Douban Reading" User Experience Book List

Zhihu's highly acclaimed user experience book recommendation column.

Book recommendation blog posts on media.

Step 2: Choose

I just use two funnels to filter out the books I want:

I have read it intensively.

Content difficulty is suitable for user experience designers aged 0-3.

I choose books that I have read intensively because I need to be responsible for my recommendation; The reason why I choose a book suitable for a user experience designer aged 0-3 (with 0-3 years of industry experience) is because this book list is written for him/her.

Step 3: Sort

The last step is more difficult because sorting requires factors.

But different authors, different cultural backgrounds, different language styles and different writing purposes …

It is difficult to find a universal factor. At a loss, I had a brainwave and thought, why not choose a reader-centered factor:

How easy this book is for readers to read, that is, readability.

Since readability is chosen as a qualitative ranking factor, the result will inevitably have my personal views and tendencies.

If you have any comments on the book list or sorting, you are welcome to make corrections, and I will update the book list as necessary according to your comments.

After the trailer is over, next, the feature begins ~

Teacher Shang comments:

Grounding gas knocking on books

Recommended reason:

As the first lesson in understanding experiential design, nothing is more appropriate than breaking a cocoon into a butterfly.

Many designers will recommend some translated books in foreign languages, but the inevitable translation cavity, the language style that occasionally escapes, the inability to cause * * *, difficult technical terms and so on. Not friendly enough for beginners, readers' sense and interest in substitution is not easy to be stimulated.

Entering the first book of a strange major, I hope it can stimulate readers' interest to the greatest extent, so as to retain readers.

Only by retaining readers will readers continue to study and explore, and there will be more possibilities.

The rhythm of prose, unpretentious language style and comprehensive knowledge system make Breaking the Cocoon into a Butterfly, co-authored by Liu Jin and Li Yue, an ideal "stepping stone".

Golden sentences in the text

English title:

Simple and easy to use

Teacher Shang comments:

Keep your word, airplane book.

Recommended reason:

The English book of this book is called simple and easy to use, and the literal translation is simple and easy to use, and the content has indeed been done.

Length: short and pithy, one page *** 185, which can be completed in one flight.

Content: From the remote control, mobile phone, socket and other items that can be seen everywhere in daily life, we can think and introduce design rules to truly simplify the complex.

Design: The whole book is a page of words, a page of pictures, and the ratio of words to illustrations is amazing 1: 1. Full of interest and extremely friendly to readers. Even more amazing, it didn't reduce the quality of the content because of a large number of illustrations. Instead, words and pictures complement each other through stunning case illustrations, reaching1+1> The effect of 2.

In a word, there has never been a book like Simple, as perfect as it looks.

Golden sentences in the text:

English title:

Don't make me think.

Teacher Shang comments:

A group of people who become designers.

Recommended reason:

The reason why the famous "Don't make me think" is placed in the third place is because the article lists a large number of cases of web design and App design, and it is difficult for readers who have not designed such products to have a buzz, and it is easy to see the traces.

But with the foreshadowing of the first two books, we can start to enter the room in the third book.

It is no exaggeration to say that this book can make anyone, especially anyone, become an experience designer.

Of course, there is also an important premise, which is to integrate the contents of the book and practice it by yourself.

The interesting cartoon pictures, original American humor and sharp and refined language in the book are impressive and memorable.

Reading a complete book makes people feel that they have learned knowledge through playing.

Golden sentences in the text:

English title:

Design of daily necessities

Teacher Shang comments:

Designer's Bible

Recommended reason:

The author of this book, Donald A. Norman, is a grandfather in the eyes of experience designers.

Father Tang made outstanding contributions in his life. He is a Ph.D. student at Pennsylvania State University, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and a professor of psychology at the University of California.

Not only that, he also wrote world-renowned masterpieces such as Design Psychology and Emotional Design. User experience, user-centered design, emotional design and other classic concepts in the mouth of Internet users are all put forward and popularized by Tang.

In this book, Father Tang put down his respectful figure and became a convincing and approachable Bandu.

Starting from the design of everyday objects, he accurately interprets complex and profound technical terms by arousing readers to think from the shallow to the deep.

Design Psychology 1, as a stepping stone to the design hall of the originator, is more appropriate.

Golden sentences in the text:

English title:

Elements of user experience

Teacher Shang comments:

Designer's desk book

Recommended reason:

To tell the truth, this book is beyond my comprehension for the first time.

At that time, I didn't know much about experience design and didn't have much industry experience. Therefore, the five-level framework of user experience proposed in the book is confusing, and many chapters are swept away.

However, three years of work experience, looking back, makes people suddenly realize.

Therefore, The Elements of User Experience is a book that people love and hate.

I hate it because it is not friendly to beginners. Without years of work, it is difficult to absorb and understand the contents of the book.

I like it because it provides a concise framework for understanding digital products and is even universally applicable.

To tell the truth, my column "Teacher Shang's Product Thinking 2 1 Lecture" was born out of this book, and my love for it can be seen.

Golden sentences in the text:

English title:

design

Teacher Shang comments:

White paper on going up the mountain.

Recommended reason:

The author of this book is Kenya Hara Kenya Hara, the artistic director of MUJI.

In fact, I think the above recommended reasons are enough.

I want to add that the reason why I put this book at the end of reading is because of the difference between design and art.

Different people have different understandings of the difference between the two. Here is a wonderful conclusion from Kenya Hara's book: Art is emotional expression and design is problem solving.

After reading the first five books with partial design, you will be contaminated with the temperament of a master artist, so that you can better feed back and sublimate the design.

Golden sentences in the text:

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I'm your brain coach, Mr. Shang. See you next time ~