UXPsychology — the reading list

Hey all, this is an ongoing reading list for those that are interested in DESIGN and PSYCHOLOGY!!! Because how can you design for human without understanding human behaviours?!

So here is the reading list for UXPsychology. I recommend you to watch the authors’ Youtube videos before diving in :).

(Note: this is a compilation from multiple UXPsychologists from the UXPsychology Group.)

Mandatory read:

• Neuro Web Design by Bob Susan
• Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion by Dr Robert Cialdini
• Predictably irrational by Dan Ariely
• Thinking fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Hooked by Nir Eyal (CREDIT must go to Dr. Fogg who develops the BJ Fogg Behaviour Model — what make people act)
• Nudge by Richard Thaler and Sunstein

Design:

• Design of everyday thing by Don Norman
• Don’t make me think by Steve Krug
• 100 things every designer needs to know about people by Susan Weinschenk
• The art of innovation by Tom Kelley

Psychology for design

• Psychology for designers by Joe Leech
• The psychology of decision making in UX (he talks about System 1 and System 2 as mentioned in Thinking fast and slow): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgiB8KhbGKY
• How to read facial expression: https://imotions.com/facialexpression-guide-ebook/
• Dark patterns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxkrdLI6e6M
• One whole blog on how technology hacks our brain https://medium.com/@tristanharris
• Avoiding Average: Recording Interaction Data to Design for Specific Us by Dr. Nick Fine

Psychology and human behaviours

• The paradox of choice by Barry Schwartz (his TED talks are amazing, check them out by click here)
• Emotional intelligence by Daniel Goleman
• if you are game enough: Social psychology … a textbook for psychology student

Others

Reading list of a UXPsychologist — Chris Callaghan : Link