

It's really the ethics of the professional using it. I am not pointing fingers, but you just look at those addictive social media interfaces or video platforms that automatically play the next video in a sequence.Īny knowledge or tool can be used for good or bad. Learning to understand people, designers get tremendous power to create interfaces that are not just easy to use but encourage you to do things that you didn't mean to. Now, welcome to the dark side of UX, following the path succinctly indicated by JD, a guy I’ve met in one Slack community for designers: Evil by Design. With the previous book, we learned how to ease the users’ lives.

Designing Interfaces: patterns for effective interaction design Please welcome the nomination for top UI/UX books that have been proven by time - best books on design fundamentals.

They blow the dust off and figure out that even if the books are outdated sometimes when it comes to the visual component, the principal component is now more relevant than ever before. Those little designers have grown up into big professionals and today they reached their old textbooks from top shelves for you. There are certain books that taught generations of folks to be product designers. Chapter 11! Go read chapter 11 to grasp what product designers do! Ilya, Founder & CEO of Eleken Best books on design fundamentals Ilya, our CEO at Eleken design agency, strongly recommends reading this book to all of us (especially the marketing department). Inspired is the perfect book to shed light on how everything works. You can’t play your string section well without understanding how it cooperates with all the other people and processes inside of the product team. Besides designers, every great product team consists of a project manager, developers, testers, marketers, researchers, analysts, and delivery managers. It’s rather a story of a string section in an orchestra. Product design is in no way a lonely ranger story.
