1. Find out what users wants. The answer to that is research and the only book I have is Just Enough Research by Erika Hall. I also found Essentials of Business Research Methods by Joe Hair Jr. et al.

2. Build the thing that the user wants. That's mostly the real of Software Requirements and I have two candidates for you:

- Mastering the Requirements Process: Getting Requirements Right by Suzanne and James Robertson

- Software Requirements by Karl Wiegers and Joy Beatty.

3. Build something that the user likes and that he can use. That's UX and I have three candidates this time:

- Observing the User Experience, 2nd Edition by E. Goodman and M. Kunlavsky

- Understanding Your Users, 2nd Edition by K. Baxter et al.

- The UX Book by R. Hartson and P. S. Pyla

All of those just emphasize having an objective view of what you want to bring to the users and a rational execution strategy. I haven't read all so I can't judge them, but I believe they will give you enough starting points for you to devise your own method.

- Deploy Empathy by Michele Hansen

- Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra

https://a.co/d/5UHzfNK (amazon link)

https://www.producttalk.org/2021/05/continuous-discovery-hab...

And

The mom test

Are the ones I’ve used the most as a product manager trying to talk to customers every week.