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Re:Ask HN: What are the best books on talking to users? on Friday April 18, 2025 @06:45PM (#43732530)
Continuous discovery habits sounds interesting, any takeaways from the book you found particularly interesting?

I like the framing around discovery being an ongoing 'habit' as opposed to something that's one and done

Re:Ask HN: What are the best books on talking to users? on Friday April 18, 2025 @06:43PM (#43732510)
Great, super helpful hearing your takeaways from each book

Thank you

Re:Ask HN: What are the best books on talking to users? on Friday April 18, 2025 @06:43PM (#43732505)
Sounds cool!

Downloading the sample

Re:Ask HN: What are the best books on talking to users? on Friday April 18, 2025 @06:42PM (#43732502)
Looks interesting - downloading the sample!

Any interesting tidbits from the book you'd like to share?

Re:Ask HN: What are the best books on talking to users? on Friday April 18, 2025 @12:54PM (#43729804)
Everyone's talking about the Mom Test so I should definitely give it a read!

Someone else recommended Deploy Empathy which I've never heard of

Feels like that would help in life generally!

Re:Ask HN: What are the best books on talking to users? on Friday April 18, 2025 @12:53PM (#43729796)
Downloading the Kindle samples for these now!

Do you have a favorite out of the 3?

Thanks for the recommendations!

Re:Ask HN: What are the best books on talking to users? on Friday April 18, 2025 @12:51PM (#43729780)
Love your breakdown and suggested books!

Do you have 1 book out of these you suggest above all else? (just wondering where to start :))

Re:Ask HN: What are the best books on talking to users? on Friday April 18, 2025 @12:44PM (#43729727)
Is this more for management/leadership as opposed to talking to users?

Seems like a good book overall! :)

Re:Ask HN: What are the best books on talking to users? on Friday April 18, 2025 @12:43PM (#43729720)
This book is always at the top of Amazon charts, but have never read it

Always have thought it was more around design rather than talking to users but I think sympathizing is the first step

Thanks for the rec!

Re:Ask HN: What are the best books on talking to users? on Friday April 18, 2025 @12:41PM (#43729695)
Have heard so many good things about the mom test

Definitely will give it a read! :)

Ask HN: What are the best books on talking to users?

Hi HN!With AI making it easier than ever to create software, it feels more important than ever to understand how to speak to usersThat said, I feel like there's a ton of content online on how to build, but far fewer recommendations on how to figure out what users want and what to build that avoids confirmation bias, false signals, etc.I'm looking for recommendations on insightful books (or...

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