Ideal Bookshelf of Liz Danzico, by Jane Mount
What results when 29 interaction design students have the opportunity to contribute to an IxD-focused book list? The result is the following list, comprising of texts that reveal the unexpected, inspired, and diligent state of mind for these MFA candidates in interaction design.
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BEHAVIORAL CHANGE
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Dan Pink
Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You’re So Tired, Till Roenneberg
Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality, Scott Belsky
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard Thaler, Cass Sunstein
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, Charles Duhigg
Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, Dan Ariely
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, Dan Pink
METHODS
How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum, Keri Smith
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels, Scott McCloud
The New New Journalism: Conversations with America’s Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft, Robert Boynton
Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past, Eviatar Zerubavel
Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation, Frederick Franck
CONSUMPTION AND SUSTAINABILITY
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, Clay Shirky
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World, Lewis Hyde
How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life, Robert Skidelsky
What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, Rachel Botsman, Roo Rogers
PLAY
Computers as Theatre, Brenda Laurel
If There Ever Was, Robert Blackson
Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, Jane McGonigal
See also: Books, 2010Books, 2009
