Recommended Reading
These are some of the many books I’ve been reading over the years.
User Experience
- Thinking in Systems - Donella H. Meadows
- Universal Principles of Design - William Lidwell, Kristina Holden, Jill Butler
- Storytelling for User Experience: Crafting Stories for Better Design - Whitney Quesenbery, Kevin Brooks
- Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design - Kat Holmes
- How to Make Sense of Any Mess - Abby Covert
- Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior - Indi Young
- Practical Empathy - Indi Young
- Calm Technology: Designing for Billions of Devices and the Internet of Things - Amber Case
- The User’s Journey: Storymapping Products That People Love - Donna Lichaw
- Engaged: Designing for Behavior Change - Amy Bucher
Software Architecture
- Facilitating Software Architecture - Andrew Harmel-Law
- Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline - Mary Shaw & David Garlan - From 1996, this is a historical view of the world of software architecture.
- Software Architecture: The Hard Parts - Neal Form, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, & Zhamak Dehghani
- Design Rules, Volume 1: The Power of Modularity - Carliss Y. Baldwin & Kim B. Clark - a book on modularity and industrial evolution. While not directly talking about software, the rules still apply to architecture and evolution.
- Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change - Neal Ford, Patrick Kua, & Rebecca Parsons
- The Architecture of Open Source Applications
Software Development
- The Staff Engineer’s Path - Tanya Reilly
- The Art of Code - Sandrine Banas
- Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold
- The Art of Readable Code - Dustin Boswell & Trevor Foucher
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - Martin Fowler
- The Pragmatic Programmer - Andrew Hunt & David Thomas
- Modern Software Engineering - David Farley
Autism-Related Titles
- Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder - Sarah Hendrickx
- The Autistic’s Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult - Sol Smith
- Divergent Mind - Jenara Nerenberg
- Temple Grandin: How the Girl who Loves Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World - Sy Montgomery
- Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls - Gina Rippon
- Unmasking Autism - Devon Price