Design Theory


The Design of Everyday Things
Universal Principles of Design
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming
Designing Design
The Elements of Typographic Style
Interaction of Color
Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation (Design Thinking, Design Theory)
Thoughts on Design
The Sciences of the Artificial
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
Understanding Design (revised edition)
The Pocket Universal Principles of Design: 150 Essential Tools for Architects, Artists, Designers, Developers, Engineers, Inventors, and Makers (Rockport Universal)
Designing for People
ROY G. BIV by Jude StewartColor Design Workbook by Noreen MoriokaThe Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin P. WilliamsThe Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
Design for Non-Designers
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Tom  Turner
Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens. ...more
Tom Turner, European Gardens: History, Philosophy and Design

Think of it this way: if you wandered into a cave and saw scratched into the wall some markings which on closer inspection read "Gary woz ere", how would you think that they got there? Would you guess that a river had run through and eroded the wall into a shape? Would you think that perhaps a bear had been sharpening his claws on the rough surface? Or would you be sensible and immediately recognise that someone called Gary, who was probably a bit of a yob, had been through and wanted to leave a ...more
Lewis N. Roe, From A To Theta: Taking The Tricky Subject Of Religion And Explaining Why It Makes Sense In A Way We Can All Understand

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