User Experience Design Books
A must read for any designer that has its heart set on designing useful designs regardless of them being online or as physical products or government aid.
Even more cognitive psychology about humans that every designer needs in order for them to design valuable things without cognitive friction.
If you are a medioker writer and hated it in school. You can still easy learn how to write and get better quickly.
With this book I started my Medium account. A month and a half in my account took off.
I could not have done this without this basic book about writing.
A simple and phenomenal written book about sales, consultancy, psychology, writing and cognitive biases.
If you ever want to run your own business for yourself or with others.
This is the book to read.
Why make things hard when it is very simple. Focus on making it simple for everyone and succeed in any design.
The creator of User Experience Design describes the world we live in and all the problems with it not understanding human feedback loops that gives insight in real life applications through design.
To be able to communicate in international companies designing products. It becomes much easier to produce good products when you can communicate as a product owner or Lead User Experience Designer so that everyone is on the same page. It also helps in SAFe trying to plan PI’s in ARTs.
Nobel prize winner has written this great starter book on how the human mind makes decisions for you. Of course it is not the absolute truth but it does give one way of looking how the human mind behaves in regards to mathematical science.
But just as Gad Saad points out. It is limited to only mathematics and does not include Evolutionary Psychology that paints a much more intricate map of human behaviours.
Have you ever wanted to know how to actually get your kids to do what you want them to do? Or to get things done at work your way?
Well Susan describes this through the lens of psychology and does so very well. For someone that is a leader, manager, Product owner, Project manager this is cheer gold for you.
Neuroscience - Psychology - Emotions
For those of you that think that Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman’s research is valid. Gad Saad explains it from an Evolutionary psychological perspective where he manages to prove that simply applying economics without psychology will be misguided in any marketing campaign.
If you do not understand how men and women function. You might wast a lot of marketing budget for nothing.
How infectious ideas are killing common sense. Just like Solomon Ash found in his research back in 1955. So does Gad Saad describe, in a simple way, how humans fall for ideas they think are good. But are malicious for everyone.
To be a critical thinker and stick to validated scientific data that has beed proven in many fields of science is becoming more and more important to families as government and global entities are trying to manipulate them with infection ideas.
How emotion guide us. Mr. Anderson takes through the research journey and explains from a neurological perspective his findings about where some emotions are located in the brain. What causes aggression and what is the default emotion in humans when introduced to a hostile situation.
With this knowledge you can easily see why the world always goes in one direction over and over again.
Paul Ekman ventured into Indonesia back in the 60’s to prove to the science community that emotional expressions was in fact an innate ability in humans. This book will teach you how emotions look in a face and what false expressions to look for.
It will also elevate your personal Cognitive empathy since empathy is made up of two parts. The second one being affective empathy which is guided by your mirror neurons.
Clues to deceit in the marketplace, politics and marriage!
Everyone lies from harmless “You look good in those jeans!” to pure malicious lies. Can humans really detect lies or is that impossible to do? Well Paul Ekman explains this in detail from a scientific perspective and why you should be careful of thinking you can tell if someone is lying or not.
A conversation between “The Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman Ph.D.
A wonderful and spiritual conversation between two iconic figures in science and spirit. A different way of reading a podcast.
David takes you through the amazing human mind and explains things about your brain you never thought was possible in real life. He gives hope to mending loss of function and also give a great explanation to why we dream in pictures and video.
Negotiating as if your life depended on it. Chris takes us through his life as a great negotiator in hostage situations. Personally I came across the same psychology in my work life where a compromise is a loose - loose war strategy. There is good reason to win in any situation. But some times you also might need to give a way the win in order to save you marriage.