Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?

those two books being fantastic resources on UI/UX design

Design of Everyday Things is great.

The Design of Everyday Things Is a masterpiece.

Reading "The Design of Everyday Things" will give you a sense of the basics

I’ve read (and love) his book

I highly recommend it as well

if I did, Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things would be the first assigned reading

Design of Everyday Things & Don't Make Me Think are both likely to be in your employer's library

I'd highly recommend Don Norman's The Design of Everyday Things to improve how you look at the world

those two books being fantastic resources on UI/UX design

"Don't Make Me Think" is a good read

I personally question anyone 1-2 degrees away from software that hasn't read "Don't make me think."

Don’t Make Me Think

Design of Everyday Things & Don't Make Me Think are both likely to be in your employer's library

Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think for simple and practical design tips

definitely second Tufte

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information: Edward R. Tufte

"The design of everyday things" would be the book to read about that kind of stuff. It's a classic and very good, I would consider that a possible "minimum"

This book is recommended quite often here

Practical and immediately useful guide to interviewing and talking to users.

I found The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin illuminating back in the days,

https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/the-user-experience-team-of...

an unconventional, yet highly-regarded choice is Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics

Up this, I'd start from here

this book is about translating those learnings into user journeys and experiences.

Adaptive Web Design is the most important book in the field that not many people have read. If there was one book I could force everyone to read that would make the whole field better, it would be that one.