Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Andy Budd

Founded the UK design agency Clearleft and ran it as managing director for 13 years, growing it to 30 people; now a venture partner at Seedcamp and a coach to design leaders.

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Andy Budd on Medium

10 articles · 11 books they recommend

Recommends 11Writing 10
Don't Make Me ThinkDon't Make Me Think
T3 Don't Make Me Think
Steve Krug · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

Krug's web usability primer has stayed relevant for over two decades because its core argument — that good interfaces require no instruction — is timeless. The chapters on navigation conventions and usability testing with five users are still the most practical introduction to the discipline.

Also recommended by: Brian Armstrong, Austen Allred, Garry Tan and 5 others

Lean UXLean UX
T4 Lean UX
Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Sophie Bakalar

Make It SoMake It So
T4 Make It So
Nathan Shedroff, Christopher Noessel · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads
The User Experience Team of OneThe User Experience Team of One
T4 The User Experience Team of One
Leah Buley · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads
This is Service Design ThinkingThis is Service Design Thinking
T4 This is Service Design Thinking
Marc Stickdorn, Jakob Schneider · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads
SprintSprint
T3 Sprint
Jake Knapp · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

The Google Ventures five-day workshop format distilled into a repeatable method for answering critical design questions through rapid prototyping and targeted user testing. Less a design book than a process book — most valuable for teams that struggle to move from ideas to validated decisions quickly.

Also recommended by: Jessica Hische, Marty Cagan, Nir Eyal

The Lean StartupThe Lean Startup
T2 The Lean Startup
Eric Ries · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Build, measure, learn: test what customers want with small experiments.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Sheryl Sandberg, Andrew Chen and 16 others

Growth Hacker MarketingGrowth Hacker Marketing
T3 Growth Hacker Marketing
Ryan Holiday · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Andrew Chen

The Brand GapThe Brand Gap
T4 The Brand Gap
Marty Neumeier · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Five disciplines to close the gap between brand strategy and its execution.

Also recommended by: Ran Segall

Gamestorming
T4 Gamestorming
Dave Gray et al.
Goodreads
Visual LeadersVisual Leaders
T4 Visual Leaders
David Sibbet · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads