Best industrial product design books according to redditors

Essentially this is what a degree covers. I assume you are not studying ID yet?.
Pulling apart things is a fantastic way to learn, and every ID professional will do it. We have boxes and boxes of disassembled products at my work, and that’s pretty standard.
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Manufacturing-Techniques-Product-Design/dp/1856697495/ref=nodl_
Making it is a good book that shows basic manufacturing processes, and from there you can learn how to design for them.

Here are a few terms, as well as some convenient flash cards someone assembled.

As a previous poster mentioned those are engineering/machining terms.

I also recommend blogs such as Core77 or the Fictiv Blog which talk about a broad range of manufacturing and design topics.

If you’re just dying for more product terms, there are plenty of terms that fall under plastic injection molding

For a good overview of materials and processes, the book Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Designersis a good balance of interesting content, pictures, and examples, and isn’t too boring for the layman.

A few things off the top of my head:

Creative Confidence By Tom and David Kelly (IDEO) - In fact, anything by these guys as IDEO are a great resource for design thinking.

Wacom Pen and Touch S Perfectly adequate starter tablet for sketching on a laptop.

Sketchbook Pro to go with it

Product Sketches - Great book with sketches of everyday things from Ideation to presentation quality.

Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design - Really good book covering the basics of industrial processes to manufacture objects.

Copic Multiliner set - maybe with some stationary. I fucking love stationary. Could combine this with a Moleskin or Field Notes notebook

Steal Like an Artist - cute, short book with a great message about how its not what you steal but how you steal it.

Kor 'Hydration Vessel' - I've had one for like 3 years.

Check out Making It by Chris Lefteri

If you want a serious information on the topic I can recommend a few things that I found useful:

1. Wohlers Report by Terry Wohlers
   
   
2. Additive manufacturing technologies: Rapid Prototyping to Direct Digital Manufacturing by Ian Gibson, David W. Ronsen and Brent Stucker
   
   
3. ASTM F42 Terminology standards
   
   Those things cost a pretty penny but they also contain the kind of information that would let you get a job in the industry. One thing to keep in mind that most of these technologies are several decades old and so you can get 95% of the relevant information out of a ten year old book if you just keep up with news. That becomes a much easier task when you stop using the phrase 3d printing, which has been hijacked by the popular media, and start using more technical and precise terms like Directed Energy Deposition or Vat Photopolymerization. Searching with technical terms will yield you a much higher quality of search results.
   
   Another good resource that is FREE is In Short with Todd Grimm
   
   I would suggest you start trying to think beyond just additive manufacturing and instead try to think about the bigger picture advantages that additive manufacturing represents, such as:
   
   
4. The integration of digital tools with mechanical processes
   
   
5. The potential for automating older processes using new digital capabilities.
   
   
6. Bespoke manufacturing and the "maker movement"
   
   If you think of it that way you will have a better perspective of what meta trends 3d printing is applying and then you can apply that knowledge to CNC, laser cutting and/or arm robots which share many of the same characteristics with 3d printing.
   
   I'd also suggest keeping your eye on the 5000+ people/organisations/companies who are active in the area but who release new things rarely. Examples of stuff I keep an eye on:
   
   
7. Computational Design of Mechanical Characters
   
   
8. 3d printed motor
   
   
9. Kniterate
   
   
10. Stitch Meshes for modelling Knitted Clothing
    
    
11. Luxexcel's 3d printed optics
    
    
12. Contour Crafting
    
    
13. DMG Mori Additive Subtractive Hybrid
    
    
    
    
    
    

I just wrote you some long answers. (My survey's the one with the long rants about folding canes held together with bungee cords, and remote controls with tiny buttons.)

Have you read Henry Petroski's book "Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design"?

Small Things Considered (amazon.co.uk)

It has a couple pages about the design of the OXO Good Grips vegetable peeler, which led to a huge product line (originally intended for people with arthritis, but embraced by many "normal" people as just plain good design.) OXO also has a blog where they show some examples of their design process:

Behind the Scenes (oxo.com)

Great reference for beginners.
https://www.amazon.com/Manufacture-Manufacturing-Engineering-Materials-Processing-ebook/dp/B005H7Z0II

I'm in a similar position. I'm working on a PhD in Electrical Engineering, so that boat has pretty much sailed for me. I LOVE manufacturing processes and design. I hear these two books are good:
Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design

and
Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals

I might want to do a post of my own to see if I can get some advice for myself. Does anyone have ideas of how I can get into product design? I'm interested in things such as those that are posted on Yanko Design.

Colbourne has one of the best books on the subject. I highly recommend it.