Best Industrial Product Design Books of 2025

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan is a must-read for anyone working in product management. The book provides insights into how successful tech companies such as Amazon, Google, and Netflix design, develop, and deploy products that customers love. Cagan offers a master class on how to structure and staff a successful product organization, discover the right product, embrace an effective process, and create a strong product culture. The book is filled with personal stories and profiles of successful product managers and technology-powered product companies. Overall, this book is a valuable resource for those looking to improve their product efforts and create technology products that their customers will love.

Open Circuits is a fascinating photographic exploration of the inner workings of everyday electronics. The book showcases the intricate design and unexpected beauty of over 130 electronic components, from resistors to USB cables, through vividly detailed cross-section photography. The book not only offers stunning imagery but also provides accessible explanations of how these components work and were made. Whether you are an electrical engineer, a tinkerer, or simply a lover of art and photography, Open Circuits has something for everyone. This book is an excellent addition to any industrial or product design book collection.

Design Thinking and Innovation Metrics is a practical guide for managing and measuring innovation. Author Michael Lewrick offers a straightforward playbook for utilizing design thinking to achieve success and create impact. The book covers a range of topics, including data analytics, artificial intelligence, and neurodesign, as well as Objectives and Key Results for innovation teams. This book is an excellent addition to any manager, executive, or entrepreneur's library and provides valuable insights into the world of innovation accounting.

The book "Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want" provides practical solutions to create products and services that customers can't resist. It uses a visual format to explain the "Value Proposition Canvas" and teaches readers how to design, test, create, and manage products and services that customers actually want. With exclusive access to an online companion on Strategyzer.com, readers can assess their work, learn from peers, and download checklists and more. The book is an essential companion to the "Business Model Canvas" and provides a proven methodology for success. Overall, this book is a valuable resource for anyone looking to create compelling products and services that sell.

The book "Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services" by Jon Yablonski is a practical guide that explains how designers can use principles of psychology to build more intuitive and human-centered products and experiences. Yablonski deconstructs familiar apps and experiences to provide clear examples of how UX designers can build experiences that adapt to how users perceive and process digital interfaces. The book covers the most useful psychology principles for designers, predictive models, ethical implications of using psychology in design, and a framework for applying these principles. Overall, the book is a valuable resource for designers who want to improve the user experience of their products and services.

The Design Thinking Playbook by Michael Lewrick, Patrick Link, and Larry Leifer is a comprehensive guide to the future of business. The book provides practical frameworks, real-world solutions, and radical innovation wrapped in a whole new outlook that gives readers the power to mindfully lead to new heights. It is an actionable guide to digital transformation that inspires radical innovation through an inspiring framework for action. The book is an excellent resource for anyone looking to approach things differently with a strong user orientation and fast iterations with multidisciplinary teams to solve wicked problems.

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal is a must-read for product managers, designers, marketers, start-up founders, and anyone who wants to understand how products influence our behavior. Eyal explains the Hook Model, a four-step process used by many successful companies to encourage customer behavior. Through fascinating examples from the iPhone to Twitter, the author provides practical insights and actionable steps for building products people love. This book is a thoughtful discussion of how to create something that users never knew they couldn't live without. Highly recommended.

The Jobs To Be Done Playbook by Jim Kalbach focuses on turning market insights into action by aligning an organization and its strategy around customer needs. The book offers practical techniques to make offerings people want and make people want your offerings. It is an excellent resource for finding a path through innovation and creating products of lasting value. With a range of examples and references, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in putting Jobs Theory into practice.

Loved: How to Rethink Marketing for Tech Products is the latest addition to the bestselling Silicon Valley Product Group series. In this book, Martina Lauchengco shares her personal stories and decades of experience working with hundreds of companies to create the definitive guide to modern product marketing. The book explains the fundamentals of best-in-class product marketing and teaches readers how to apply them. It also covers the key skills and actions required to do product marketing well, how to optimize collaboration with other functions, and much more. Overall, Loved is an excellent resource for product teams, marketers, founders, and any leader with a product and a vision.

Productize: The Ultimate Guide to Turning Professional Services into Scalable Products is a practical playbook for leaders of professional services businesses who want to accelerate growth. The book outlines the "Seven Deadly Productization Mistakes" and provides a blueprint for overcoming them. It includes real-life case studies and more than two dozen tools and templates to help implement the tactics. The author also covers how to shift the company culture, how to sequence investments in new product development, and how to inexpensively test ideas before investing in development. This book is an essential read for anyone looking to turn their services into scalable products.