Popular

Growing number of recent comments, tags or page views.

Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner's Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis Jon Kolko
Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur
Must Read

Highly rated with established community support.

Unfolding the Napkin: The Hands-On Method for Solving Complex Problems with Simple Pictures Dan Roam
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation Tim Brown
Foundation

Highly rated with growing community support.

A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business Hartmut Esslinger
The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy Raj Patel
Storytelling for User Experience: Crafting Stories for Better Design Whitney Quesenbery, Kevin Brooks
Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy Dev Patnaik
Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Your Life, Your Business, and Maybe Even the World Warren Berger
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation Steven Johnson
Branded Interactions Marco Spies
Discovery

Highly rated but with minimal community notice.

Design Thinking - Business Innovation Maurício Vianna Ysmar Vianna Isabel K. Adler Brenda Lucena Beatriz Russo
Service Design: From Insight to Implementation Andy Polaine, Lavrans Løvlie, Ben Reason
The Ten Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences Matt Watkinson
The Service Innovation Handbook: Action-oriented Creative Thinking Toolkit for Service Organizations Lucy Kimbell
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda, Alan Smith
Mapping Experiences: A Complete Guide to Creating Value through Journeys, Blueprints, and Diagrams James Kalbach
Classic

Highly rated books published more than 15 years ago.

The Universal Traveler: A Soft-Systems Guide to Creativity, Problem-Solving, and the Process of Reaching Goals Don Koberg, Jim Bagnall
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art Scott McCloud
Bringing User Experience to Healthcare Improvement: The Concepts, Methods and Practices of Experience-based Design Paul Bate, Glenn Robert
Systems Thinking in the Public Sector: The failure of the reform regime... and a manifesto for a better way John Seddon
The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community Ray Oldenburg
Service Management and Marketing: Customer Management in Service Competition Christian Grönroos
The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization Thomas Kelley, Jonathan Littman
Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, Brandon Schauer, David Verba
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond Jesse James Garrett
Nudge: Improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness Richard Thaler, Cass Sunstein
From Products to Services: Insights and experience from companies which have embraced the service economy Laurie Young
New Service Development and Innovation in the New Economy Bo Edvardsson, Anders Gustafsson, Michael D. Johnson, Bodil Sanden
Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design Bill Buxton
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change Victor Papanek
Design and the Elastic Mind
Educating the Reflective Practitioner: Toward a New Design for Teaching and Learning in the Professions Donald A. Schon
Design Research: Methods and Perspectives
Recommended

Four star rating with established community support.

The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures Dan Roam
Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services Kim Goodwin
Notable

Four star rating with growing community support.

Innovation X: Why a Company's Toughest Problems Are Its Greatest Advantage Adam Richardson
Universal Methods of Design: 100 Ways to Research Complex Problems, Develop Innovative Ideas, and Design Effective Solutions Bruce Hanington, Bella Martin
Design Thinking: Integrating Innovation, Customer Experience, and Brand Value
Design and Creativity: Policy, Management and Practice
Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back Douglas Rushkoff
Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences Nancy Duarte
Background

Three star rating with established community support.

Rules of Thumb: How to Stay Productive and Inspired Even in the Most Turbulent Times Alan M. Webber
Supplement

Three star rating with growing community support.

Do You Matter?: How Great Design Will Make People Love Your Company Robert Brunner, Stewart Emery, Russ Hall
Unrated

Books with no star rating.

Service Management: Strategy and Leadership in Service Business Richard Normann
Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing Malcolm McCullough
The Handbook of Design Management Rachel Cooper, Sabine Junginger, Thomas Lockwood, Richard Buchanan, Richard Boland, Kyung-won Chung
Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal Mark W. Johnson
Library Service Design: A LITA Guide to Holistic Assessment, Insight, and Improvement Joe J. Marquez, Annie Downey
User Experience in Libraries: Applying Ethnography and Human-Centred Design