Library

Books, articles, and other educational resources recommended by Truss designers

Articles/collections

• Show Your Work: How to Justify Your Decisions & Get Stakeholder Buy-In
  • Topic: Outcome-based roadmaps
• Lean Value Tree: The Product Strategy Map
  • Topic: Lean value tree
• Escape From the Feature Roadmap to Outcome-Driven Development
  • Topic: Outcome-based roadmaps
• How To Build A Product Roadmap Everyone Understands
  • Topic: Outcome-based roadmaps
• How to Give Career Guidance
  • Management
• Honest Feedback
  • Topic: Management
• What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
  • Topic: Psychological safety
• Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups
  • Topic: Psychological safety
• An Exercise to Help Your Team Feel More Comfortable with Conflict
  • Topic: Psychological safety
• Wikipedia article on psychological safety
  • Topic: Psychological safety
• Coglode Research
  • Topic: Research
• Stop Adopting Other People’s Anxiety
  • Topic: Consulting
• What Makes Writing More Readable?
  • Topic: Content design
• UX Design Subreddit
  • Topic: Design and research
• Nava Toolkits
  • Topic: Design and research

Books

• Stuck? Diagrams Help by Abby Covert
  • Topic: Diagramming
• Design for Real Life by Sara Wachter-Boettcher and Eric Meyer
  • Topic: Inclusive design
• Radical Candor by Kim Scott
  • Topic: Management
• The Art of Agile Development: Pragmatic Guide to Agile Software Development by Shane Warden and James Shore
  • Topic: Agile development
• Content Design by Sarah Richards
  • Topic: Content design
• Good Services, How to design services that work by Lou Downe
  • Topic: Design and research
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
  • Topic: Diversity and inclusion
• Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’t by Verne Harnish
  • Topic: Management
• Articulating Design Decisions by Tom Greever
  • Topic: Consulting
• The User Experience Team of One by Leah Buley
  • Topic: Design and research
• How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody by Abby Covert
  • Topic: Content design
• How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things by Jenny L. Davis
  • Design and research
• A Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide by Cyd Harrell
  • Topic: Civic tech
• Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro
  • Topic: Design ethics
• Writing is Designing by Michael J. Metts & Andy Welfle
  • Topic: Content design
• Strategic Writing for UX by Torrey Podmajersky
  • Topic: Content design
• 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) by Susan Weinschenk
  • Topic: Design and research
• The Elements of Content Strategy by Erin Kissane
  • Topic: Content design
• Microcopy: The Complete Guide by Kinneret Yifrah
  • Topic: Content design
• Mapping Experiences by James Kalbach
  • Topic: Design and research

Digital copies of books

The following titles are accessible through 🔒Truss’s internal library

• Build Better Products by Laura Klein
  • Topic: Design and research
• Business Thinking for Designers by Ryan Rumsey
  • Topic: Business and design
• Catalyst - Drive Digital Transformation Inside your Organization
  • Topic: Design and research
• Designing for the Internet of Things (Curated collection from O’Reilly Design Library)
  • Topic: Design and research
• Software Architecture Patterns by Mark Richards
  • Topic: Agile development
• Conversational Design by Erika Hall
  • Topic: Content design
• Cultivating Content Design by Beth Dunn
  • Topic: Content design
• Design for Cognitive Bias by David Dylan Thomas
  • Topic: Design and research
• Figure it Out: Getting from Information to Understanding by Stephen P. Anderson and Karl Fast
  • Topic: Design and research
• Form Design Patterns by Adam Silver
  • Topic: Design and research
• Just Enough Research, 2nd Edition by Erika Hall
  • Topic: Research
• Lead with Content by Padma Gillen
  • Topic: Content design
• Life and Death Design by Katie Swindler
  • Topic: Design and research
• Liftoff! Practical Design Leadership to Elevate your Team, you Organization, and You by Chris Avore and Russ Unger
  • Topic: Leadership
• Surveys that Work by Caroline Jarrett
  • Topic: Research
• Writing is Designing by Michael Metts and Andy Welfle
  • Topic: Content design