This is a collection of books that have been recommended by members of the Transport Canada UX community.
Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience (Second Edition)
Author(s): Tom Greever
Available Formats: Paperback, eBook or audiobook
This practical guide focuses on principles, tactics, and actionable methods for presenting your designs. Whether you design apps, websites, or products, you’ll learn how to get support from people who have influence over the project with the goal of creating the best user experience.
Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
Author(s): Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
Available formats: Paperback, eBook or audiobook
Don't simply show your data—tell a story with it! Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples—ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation.
Design for Impact: Your Guide to Designing Effective Product Experiments
Author(s): Erin Weigel
Available formats: Paperback or eBook
Design for Impact is a down-to-earth A/B testing guide. It features the Conversion Design process to operationalize effective experimentation in your company. In it, Erin Weigel gives you practical tips and tools to design better experiments at scale. She does this with self-deprecating humor that will leave you smiling—if not laughing aloud. As a bonus, The Good Experimental Design toolkit presents everything you learn into step-by-step process for you to use each day.
Badass: Making Users Awesome
Author(s): Kathy Sierra
Available formats: Paperback or eBook
Our goal is to craft a strategy for creating successful users. And that strategy is full of surprising, counter-intuitive, and astonishingly simple techniques that don’t depend on a massive marketing or development budget. Techniques typically overlooked by even the most well-funded, well-staffed product teams.
Badass: Making Users Awesome: Sierra, Kathy: Books - Amazon.ca