I keep recommending

Thinking in Systems

Donella H. Meadows

Every screen is part of a system. Fix the system, not the symptom.

Design

Mismatch

Kat Holmes

Exclusion is usually a design decision nobody meant to make. I try to make it on purpose.

Design

Calm Technology

Amber Case

The best interface asks for as little attention as possible. Especially in crypto.

Design

The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman

The first book that made me blame the door, not the person pushing it.

Design

Ways of Seeing

John Berger

What people see depends on how it’s framed. Hierarchy is an argument.

Essays

The Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus

The rock never stays at the top. Iteration is the work, not a detour from it.

Essays

One, No One and One Hundred Thousand

Luigi Pirandello

Everyone sees a different version of the same thing. That’s why we test.

Fiction