What are best 10 books about user experience design?

Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services by Kim Goodwin is a favorite of mine, in the fact that it is just so comprehensive. It's THE book to me.

A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making is a great primer on UX and a good book around project planning.

The Persona Lifecycle: Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design (Interactive Technologies) is THE definitive reference to creating personas.

The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman is the seminal work on UX design and should be the first book in any library.

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability is another "classic" in the domain.

About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design is Alan Cooper's magnum opus on interaction design.

The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond by Jesse James Garrett because it's awesome.

Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design by Bill Buxton, because it's really good and practical.

Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior by Indi Young because it's a great foundational book about understanding how users think of certain domains.

Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan, because desirability is something that is not covered by most books on UX.

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