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Books Recommendations UX & Design

8 UX “must reads” (the books)

by eurydice13 on 21 July 2019
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I’m often asked about what I use as a design reference. And as the question has been coming up more and more often, I thought it’d be good to try and write up an answer. This answer will be in multiple parts. In the first part, I listed a few NN Group articles that act […] continue reading »

Tagged books, bookshelf, design, recommendations, UX

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  • November was a quiet month... I was on a project which meant long days, and the need to read fiction in order to disconnect. 💙 Circe - a first-person account of Circe’s life. Masterful, beautiful and casually epic. I will probably read it again. Enjoyed the audiobook version. Brilliantly immersive. Made me wish I could search audiobooks by narrator...
🧐 Maigret - Wanted fiction, was on a french case so reading english at the end of the day would hinder my fluency the next day, and I had to find something I hadn’t read that wasn’t too dark. And I remembered my dad’s recommendation of Georges Simenon. They’re interesting character tales and snippets of life. Not murder mysteries in the grander scheme of things. They aren’t quite whodoneits. Or perhaps they are... the Balzac version of a whodoneit 🤣 but with less exacting language. 🤫 Wouldn’t call them fun. But loved reading about humans who had fought in the first world war. We are forgetting the wars, as a generation. I fear that this will bite us in the 🍑. #bookworm #novemberReads #bookstagram
  • So the canals didn’t have to wait too long 🤫 I do so much box-chaining when traveling for work (plane, taxi, office, taxi, hotel, taxi, plane...) that when the day ends all I want to do is feel the breeze (even if it’s freezing) on my skin. And turns out canals are very photogenic things! I lived in Holland for a few years when I was younger. I don’t feel as much like a tourist as I should. I will still photograph the heck out of the Venice of the north though! #canals #amsterdam
  • I hunt sunsets... Tonight’s sleepy ball of fire had a fireplace as a companion. I feel warm all over :) #rooftops #amsterdam Canals will have to wait. #remoteWorking
  • So we have this tradition that whenever we meet (which might be two weeks apart or three years apart), we take a photo together and send it to our parents. :) It helps remember WHERE on earth we actually met, because it could be anywhere... This is the legendary @licht_mehrlicht who travels and sunbathes even more than I do. And that’s quite a feat!!!!
  • I wish it were Sunday morning again (like in the photo) and I could have a real breakfast with a real coffee and see some sunlight. #flatwhite #coffee #workingAwayFromHome #blue
  • Some happy moss growing on a contentedly damp wall somewhere in London around W14 and SW6. It looked a bit like miniature trees and made me wish I had a miniature human to stick in the photo. Maybe something to shop for and keep in my bag for next time :) any recommendations for miniature humans?
  • October books. 
1. Diamond Doris - loved the story!! Read it in just over a day on the beach. Would be curious to meet the queen of diamond ring thieves!
2. Adventures of a life insurance salesman - whoa! What a dude! Funny stories narrated by a funny guy. The rhythm is nuts, and some of the things he attempts even more nuts. I was left feeling like I haven’t been trying hard enough at talking to strangers. 
#books #bookworm #sorryihadwork #bookstagram
  • Some people measure success with money. Others with power and friends. 
I have always measured it by what my grandma told me are the only two things you can take with you when you leave a country in the dead of night: what’s in your head, and what’s in your heart. 
As a proxy, I use books, which contain and convey wisdom and stories, that you can take with you. 
This is me, finishing a cup of champagne, after a short tour of @lebonmarcherivegauche with one of their personal shoppers, looking for something resembling a tweed jacket. In case you’re curious, we didn’t find one. 
But I did end up invited to the private shopping salons... one of which has one wall lined with a limited edition exclusive run of Gallimard prints of Zola’s Au bonheur des dames, the novel about the Bon Marché... and without which I may never have known about the store at all. I didn’t buy one, tempted though I was, but I did hug the bookcase while no-one was looking. 🤫 I love books!

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BOOKSHELF: recent reads

Data from Goodreads

  • Book cover

    Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

    Timothy Ferriss

    ★★★★☆

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    How to Bullet Plan: Everything You Need to Know About Journaling with Bullet Points

    Rachel Wilkerson Miller

    ★★★☆☆

  • Book cover

    Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)

    Jacqueline Carey

    ★★★★★

  • Book cover

    Kushiel's Chosen (Phèdre's Trilogy, #2)

    Jacqueline Carey

    ★★★★★

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    Lighter Than My Shadow

    Katie Green

    ★★★★★

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One button, six disciplines
Flows!
Flows!
Cup holder ideas
Cup holder ideas
Three new design method variants
Three new design method variants
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Two heads are better than one
Two heads are better than one
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UXplanation: Sitemap
UXplanation: Wireframe
UXplanation: Wireframe
UXplanation: Persona
UXplanation: Persona
UXplanation: Prototype
UXplanation: Prototype
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Wireframes
Wireframes
Exploring layout variants
Exploring layout variants
Exploring layout variants
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Wireframe

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