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- #1ResearchJust Enough ResearchErika Hall5.01 shelved · 2 threads
- #2Leadership & managementExtreme OwnershipJocko Willink & Leif Babin5.01 shelved · 2 threads
- #3Leadership & managementRadical CandorKim Scott5.01 shelved · 0 threads
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- Just Enough ResearchErika Hall5.0
- Don't Make Me ThinkSteve Krug
- Interviewing UsersSteve Portigal
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- 01UX Bootcamp6 books
Start here if you've never done UX. Six books that give you the vocabulary, the core principles and your first research habits before you open a design tool.
- 02Junior UX Designers6 books
Your first design job: ship clean screens, test your own work, write the words, take critique well and plan your next step.
- 03Mid-level UX Designers7 books
Owning features end to end: continuous discovery, deeper interviews, information architecture, journey mapping, design systems, and defending your decisions.
- 04Senior UX Designers6 books
Setting direction, not just executing it: strategy, outcomes over output, systems thinking, facilitation and the business case for design.
- 05Lead UX Designers6 books
Leading people and shaping the org: structuring design teams, honest feedback, hard conversations and building empowered product teams.
Where do you draw the line on "just enough"?
2 replies · activeSame here. We also estimate what being wrong would cost, which lands better with leadership than sample size ever did.
0I tie it to the decision: if the next five interviews would not change what we build, we are done.
0Most design reading lists stop at the title
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Portigal is generous with the awkward parts: silence, bad questions, recovering a derailed session.on Interviewing Users · 0 likes
Hall is refreshingly blunt about what research is for: reducing the risk of a bad decision, not producing a deck.on Just Enough Research · 0 likes
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