Recommendations
Hope the lists below will be useful for you.
books & articles
on (ui/ux)design & research:
- Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability | by Steve Krug
- Atomic Design | by Brad Frost
- Refactoring UI | by Adam Wathan, Steve Schoger
- UX Collective
- Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems | by Steve Krug
- The business value of design | McKinsey Quarterly
- Service Design: From Insight to Implementation | by Andy Polaine, Lavrans Løvlie, Ben Reason
- The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide |by Leah Buley
- Universal Methods of Design: 100 Ways to Research Complex Problems, Develop Innovative Ideas, and Design Effective Solutions | by Bella Martin (Goodreads Author), Bruce M. Hanington
- Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights | by Steve Portigal
- How to Do Things with Words | by J.L. Austin
on games & gamification:
- Anything by the Gamification Group
- The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses | by Jesse Schell
- Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World | by Jane McGonigal
- Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture | by Johan Huizinga
- The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia |by Bernard Suits
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience | by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards | by Yu-kai Chou
- Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals | by Katie Salen, Eric Zimmerman
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness | by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
- Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture | by David Kushner
communities:
- Service Design Turku (A small but powerful group of people with great events from Turku)
- SDN
- IGDA Finland
- Global Game Jam
communities:
- anthonyboyd.graphics (free mock-ups and textures)
- A guide on how to make a portfolio for service designers
- flaticon (basis of creating vector assets)