In the process of creating New Pragmatic, I spent months reacquainting myself with a small library of books, podcasts, and video series that I have leaned on over the years. While I attempted to attribute my sources where possible in the writing directly, I wanted to make a shared resource available for all the items that might not have been specifically referenced but definitely influenced the work.

This is a living document and will be updated with new sources over time.

We're all building on the shoulders of giants who came before us and maybe someday this work will provide a foundation for someone else to build upon.

Further reading

Book	Author(s)
The Anatomy of Type	Stephen Coles
Atomic Habits	James Clear
Building a StoryBrand	Donald Miller
Conversational Design	Erika Hall
Decisive	Chip and Dan Heath
Design for the Real World	Victor Papanek
Design Is A Job	Mike Monteiro
Design Is Storytelling	Ellen Lupton
The Design of Everyday Things	Don Norman
A Designer's Research Manual	Jenn and Ken Visocky O'Grady
Disciplined Entrepreneurship	Bill Aulet
Don't Make Me Think	Steve Krug
Drive	Dan Pink
The Elements of Color	Johannes Itten
The Elements of Typographic Style	Robert Bringhurst
Everyday Information Architecture	Lisa Maria Martin
The Internet of Garbage	Sarah Jeong
Just Enough Research	Erika Hall
Lean UX	Jeff Gothelf
The Power of Habit	Charles Duhigg
Pretty Much Everything	Aaron James Draplin
Rework	Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Ruined By Design	Mike Monteiro
Shape Up	Ryan Singer
The Talent Code	Daniel Coyle
Thinking Fast and Slow	Daniel Kahneman
Thinking In Systems	Donella H. Meadows
Thinking with Type	Ellen Lupton
This Is Marketing	Seth Godin
The Truthful Art	Alberto Cairo
The Undoing Project	Michael Lewis
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information	Edward Tufte
User Story Mapping	Jeff Patton
When	Dan Pink
Why We Make Things and Why It Matters	Peter Korn
The 80/20 Principle	Richard Koch

Further listening / viewing

Podcast	Host(s)
The Big Web Show	Jeffery Zeldman
Center for Humane Technology	Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin
Layout Land	Jen Simmons
Learn With Jason	Jason Lengstorf
Shop Talk Show	Dave Rupert and Chris Coyier
Syntax FM	Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski
User Defenders	Jason Ogle
What Is Wrong With UX	Laura Klein and Kate Rutter

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All the books, podcasts, and Twitter accounts listed above are worth your time investigating further. To make this easier, I've compiled a list of the names above that you can simply subscribe to as part of the New Pragmatic presence on Twitter.

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Now that you've been properly introduced to the inspiration behind this course, it's time for us to turn our attention to the path ahead.

Exercise

Every designer begins their journey from a unique perspective, and the influences of each are varied by the environment they have grown in.

This exercise is straightforward. Pick two people or things (designers, authors, websites, books, podcasts, etc.) that either pushed you into Design or made you want to become a better designer.

There are no wrong answers here, but write at least a paragraph about each selection. Understanding how you became the designer that you currently helps predict the path ahead.

Once complete, update your program journal with any assets produced in this exercise. Post a link to your journal in the feedback-loop channel for review.

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