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The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 3572 times as design)
avg rating 4.15 — 46,794 ratings — published 1988
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 1936 times as design)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,437 ratings — published 2000
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 1219 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,495 ratings — published 2004
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1124 times as design)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,862 ratings — published 2003
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 1076 times as design)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,204 ratings — published 2011
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 879 times as design)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,038 ratings — published 1992
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
by (shelved 804 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,426 ratings — published 2003
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 728 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 328,278 ratings — published 2012
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 716 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,260 ratings — published 1996
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 713 times as design)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,607 ratings — published 1983
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 643 times as design)
avg rating 3.89 — 10,935 ratings — published 2009
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
by (shelved 642 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,155 ratings — published 2013
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 628 times as design)
avg rating 4.19 — 23,159 ratings — published 2016
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 622 times as design)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,523 ratings — published 1995
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 607 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,822 ratings — published 1966
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 601 times as design)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,922 ratings — published 1990
Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 554 times as design)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,661 ratings — published 2012
The Laws of Simplicity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 544 times as design)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,970 ratings — published 2006
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 539 times as design)
avg rating 3.94 — 14,423 ratings — published 1971
The Non-Designer's Design Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 523 times as design)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,871 ratings — published 2011
Design Is a Job (Paperback)
by (shelved 518 times as design)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,056 ratings — published 2012
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 517 times as design)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,734 ratings — published 1972
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play (Hardcover)
by (shelved 462 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,886 ratings — published 2019
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 459 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,932 ratings — published 2010
Just Enough Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 453 times as design)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,099 ratings — published 2013
Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 442 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,773 ratings — published 2015
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 438 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,005 ratings — published 2005
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 424 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,093 ratings — published 2013
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 420 times as design)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,130 ratings — published 2002
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 412 times as design)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,081 ratings — published 2003
The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 406 times as design)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,594 ratings — published 2013
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities (Paperback)
by (shelved 399 times as design)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,217 ratings — published 2009
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 383 times as design)
avg rating 4.09 — 59,467 ratings — published 2014
Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 373 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,698 ratings — published 2003
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 372 times as design)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,356 ratings — published 1977
Designing for Emotion (Paperback)
by (shelved 359 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,668 ratings — published 2011
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 355 times as design)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,099 ratings — published
How to use graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look better, make people laugh, make people cry, and (every once in a while) change the world
by (shelved 348 times as design)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,130 ratings — published 2015
Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services (Paperback)
by (shelved 323 times as design)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,526 ratings — published
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,249 ratings — published 2008
Design Is Storytelling (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as design)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,658 ratings — published 2017
Designing Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 306 times as design)
avg rating 4.50 — 965 ratings — published 2003
Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems (Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,358 ratings — published 2009
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 300 times as design)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,459 ratings — published 2018
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (Hardcover)
by (shelved 284 times as design)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,095 ratings — published 1997
Thoughts on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 278 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,111 ratings — published 1947
Designing Interfaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as design)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,000 ratings — published 2005
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 266 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,839 ratings — published 1983
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as design)
avg rating 3.94 — 423,952 ratings — published 1972
“Our critics make us strong!
Our fears make us bold!
Our haters make us wise!
Our foes make us active!
Our obstacles make us passionate!
Our losses make us wealthy!
Our disappointments make us appointed!
Our unseen treasures give us a
known peace!
Whatever is designed against us will work for us!”
― The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Our fears make us bold!
Our haters make us wise!
Our foes make us active!
Our obstacles make us passionate!
Our losses make us wealthy!
Our disappointments make us appointed!
Our unseen treasures give us a
known peace!
Whatever is designed against us will work for us!”
― The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.”
― The Buckminster Fuller Reader
― The Buckminster Fuller Reader
