nicole torgersen

Book & Podcast List

Here is a list of books and podcasts I’ve found helpful, I hope you find something of value as well!

Strategy & Roadmaps

• Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty

• Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

• Building Design Strategy: Using Design to Achieve Key Business Objectives

• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (audible)

• Measure What Matters

• The Power of Moments

Design, Research, Org Design

• The Jobs To Be Done Playbook: Align Your Markets, Organization, and Strategy Around Customer Needs

• Org Design for Design Orgs: Building and Managing In-House Design Teams

• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Audible version is good)

• Designing for Emotion

• Content Strategy for Mobile
  

Design Systems

• Designing Interface Animation: Meaningful Motion for User Experience

• Design Systems Handbook

• Atomic Design
  

Getting things done

• Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results ( OKRs )

• Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality

• Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams

• Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale

• Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity (audible)

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing 

• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
  

Mindset, Coaching & Leadership

• How to Win Friends & Influence People / How to Win Friends & Influence People (Audible is good too)

• The Master Coach: Leading with Character, Building Connections, and Engaging in Extraordinary Conversations

• The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever (Audible version is good)

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Audible version is good)

• Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts (Audible) 

• Atlas of the Heart

• Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want (Audible)

• Outliers: The Story of Success

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Audible)

• The First 90 Days

• Lean In

• Girl, Stop Apologizing (audible - can get a little juvenile but a good women’s empowerment pick-me-up)

• Becoming - Michelle Obama (Audible)

• The Light We Carry (Currently listening to Audible)

Podcasts

• The Design Better Podcast

• Finding our Way

• Tara Brach

• Grit