What to Listen to While Working [v1]
Audiobooks, podcasts, and obviously, music…
If you love to listen to audiobooks, podcasts, or music while working from home, today’s post it’s for you.
If you work from home, it’s possible that you’ve felt alone at times, this is normal, don’t worry… To combat this feeling, I bring you a list of “virtual companions” that won’t only keep you company, but also teach you something new or maybe deepen a topic you already know.
As always, let’s get to the point:
Audiobooks [Audible]
Principles of Product Design (Aarron Walter)
Combined with the power of design thinking, these extensively researched best practices from some of the world’s best design teams will help you nail the fundamentals of product design and do great work.
Enterprise Design Sprints (Richard Banfield)
Design sprints provide a problem-solving framework to get answers quickly and effectively. Learn to run sprints in any organization to reduce politics, increase collaboration, and put the focus on outcomes.
Design Thinking Handbook (Eli Woolery)
You’ll learn how to put the thinking-based framework popularized by the Stanford d.school into practice so you can take on challenges in your organization and reach insightful solutions.
Design Leadership Handbook (Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery)
This audiobook will help you get your bearings as a leader, gain confidence, and learn tactical approaches from experts who have been in your shoes so you can support your team and advance your career.
Design Systems Handbook (Marco Suarez, Jina Anne, Katie Sylor-Miller, Diana Mounter, and Roy Stanfield)
This audiobook guides readers through best practices around planning, designing, building, and implementing a design system, with insights and first-hand experiences from experts who have gone through the journey.
Podcasts [Google]
Design Better Podcast (InVisionApp, Inc)
Delivers insights from the world’s most renowned creative leaders, empowering teams to transform their practice and build remarkable products.
Design Life (Charli Prangley, Femke Van Schoonhoven)
A podcast about design and side projects for motivated creators. It was born after your hosts, two serial side project addicts, saw a gap in the podcast market for a conversational show about design and the issues young creatives face, that was hosted by two females.
Design Matters (Debbie Millman)
Interviews with designers, artists and cultural leaders, including Lawrence Weiner, Barbara Kruger, Malcolm Gladwell, Eric Kandel, Stefan Sagmeister, John Maeda, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones among others…
How To Fail (Elizabeth Day)
Is a podcast that celebrates the things that haven’t gone right. Every week, a new interviewee explores what their failures taught them about how to succeed better.
The Honest Designers Show (Design Cuts)
Learn how to make a dent in the creative universe with Tom Ross, Ian Barnard, Dustin Lee and Lisa Glanz. Each of your hosts have found tremendous success in their own creative fields.
LoFi Music [webapps]
LoFi Cafe (Fabrizio Rinaldi and Marianna Di Vito)
Lofi music streams for studying, working, and relaxing.
Chillhop (N/A)
Chillhop Music is the leading platform and label in lofi hip hop and jazzy hip hop. The best and chillest beats for working, studying and relaxing.
lofimusic.app (Maxence)
An app to discover and listen to Lo-Fi radios, simply as that.
endel.io (Various Artists)
They use patented technology that creates soundscapes that adapt in real-time. It reacts to inputs like time of day, weather, heart rate, and location.
lofly.site (Savio Martin)
Chill with lofi beats along with nature sounds. Filter according to your wish and have a fun time
So far, some wonderful audiobooks, podcasts, and lofi music lists developed to improve our knowledge. I am sure some of them can help(us) at some point in (y)our daily work.
By the way, if you know of any audiobooks, podcasts, or LoFi music lists, I invite you to share them in the comments, so I can include them in the next version.
Thanks for taking the time to read this post. And I hope to see you soon.
