I was recently asked by a friend if I could make a short list of good readings on design thinking . I tried and here it is. This is a first attempt. The criteria for choosing a text has been if the reading has meant a lot to me. I have also picked texts that are not for the moment but are useful for many years (more or less timeless). So, this is a list of design thinking readings that I constantly use and go back to (I have probably forgotten some really important ones :-) Alexander, C. (1979). The Timeless Way of Building . Oxford University Press. Buchanan, R. Wicked Problems in Design Thinking. In The Idea of Design . V. Margolin and R. Buchanan (eds). MIT Press, 1995, 3-20. Buxton, B. (2007) Sketching User Experience – getting the design right and the right design . Morgan Kaufman. Cross, N. (2007). Designerly Ways of Knowing . Birkhauser, Basel. Dewey, J. (1934) Art as Experience . New York: Perigee Books. Dorst, C. H. (2003). Understanding Design . Amsterdam: BIS Pu...