The UX Research Reading and Podcast List 2025

In Your Ears and On Your Desk: The Ultimate UX Research Reading and Podcast List

One question we frequently encounter during networking breaks at our events is, “What are you reading?” It’s a great conversation starter and often sparks valuable insights. Inspiration is everywhere, and some of the best ideas, references, and recommendations come from these very discussions.

To further tap into the collective wisdom of our UX360 community, we reached out to our speakers to share their favourite podcasts, books, and blogs. We’re excited to bring these sources of inspiration to you, along with direct links where available.

A special thank you goes to Adam Ebel, Elena Svergunenko, Helen Devine, Horaci Polanco, Katherine S Vegas, Lyubomir Todorakov, Sonja Wilczek, Michelle Bergenholz Groth, and many others who contributed their recommendations. We encourage you to add your own suggestions in the comments—let’s continue growing this list together!

Happy reading, listening, and learning!

Table of Contents

In your ears – UX Podcasts

- Product Thinking, Melissa Perri
- UX Research Geeks, Tina Ličková
- Lenny’s Podcast, Lenny Rachitsky
- Design Better, Eli Woolery and Aarron Walter
- Inspiring Women In CX podcast, hosted by Clare Muscutt
- If Books Could Kill
- Great Intentions, Jonas Lund and Roel Wouters
- Lingthusiasm, Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne
- Anthro to UX, Matt Artz
- Anthropology in Business, Matt Artz
- Doble Click, BBVA
- The Knowledge Project, Shane Parrish
- CultureLab, Aga Bajer
- Dollars to Donuts, Steve Portugal
- Scaling Research, Ray Opata
- UX and Usability Podcast, German UPA
- Growth Design Case Studies, Growth.Design
- Diary of a CEO
- Untanlged: The Usability Sciences Podcast, Adrienne Guillory
- Better Offline
- Acquired, Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
- People Nerds, dScout
- How I Built This, Guy Raz
- Harvard Business Review Newsletter
- Pivot, Kara Swisher, Scott Galloway
- The Bill Simmons Podcast, Bill Simmons
- Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

Must read – UX Books and Blogs

- Just Enough Research, Erika Hall
- Continuous Discovery Habits, Teresa Torres
- Change By Design, Tim Brown
- On UX, Jakob Nielsen
- How to future, Scott Smith &Madeleine Ashby
- Continous Discovery, Teresa Torres
- Thinking In Systems: A Primer, Donatella Meadows
- UXpshycology, Dr Maria Panagiotidi
- Cultureby, by Grant McCracken
- Fresh Views, Userinterviews.com
- Designkit, Ideo.org
- The Cultural Map, Erin Meyer
- Misbehaving, Richard H. Thaler
- The making of a Manager, Julie Zhuo
- Fall in love with the problem not the solution, Uri Levine
- A Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide, Cyd Harrell
- 18F Research Guidelines, U.S. General Services Administration
- UK Service Manual’s User Research chapters, UK Government
- User Weekly, Jan Ahrend
- The five dysfunctions of a team, Patrick Lencioni
- Lean Product Playbook, Dan Olsen
- Transformed, Marty Cagan
- The Expansion Sale, Erik Peterson and Tim Riesterer
- Dirt.fyi
- The Intersection, Rei Inamoto
- Sidebar.io
- The Sociology of Business
- Surveys That Work: A Practical Guide for Designing and Running Better Surveys, Caroline Jarrett
- The Art of Possibility, Benjamin Zander

Author

Jens Cornelissen

Jens Cornelissen has been writing for over two decades – initially for general newspapers in his home country Germany. After receiving an MA degree in Communications, he joined a new media start-up in Amsterdam as consultant on new media technologies and country editor for two daily newsletters. In his current day job, Jens runs the global conference division for Merlien’s dedicated marketing research events. Jens is a trained journalist with a BA in Journalism from Westminster University in London and has authored several media industry reports and articles on mobile and media technology.

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