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The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 3613 times as design)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,406 ratings — published 1988
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 1949 times as design)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,636 ratings — published 2000
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 1225 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,542 ratings — published 2004
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1133 times as design)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,873 ratings — published 2003
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 1086 times as design)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,243 ratings — published 2011
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 888 times as design)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,045 ratings — published 1992
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
by (shelved 809 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,478 ratings — published 2003
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 743 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 335,790 ratings — published 2012
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 726 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,299 ratings — published 1996
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 714 times as design)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,653 ratings — published 1983
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 652 times as design)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,000 ratings — published 2009
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
by (shelved 649 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,902 ratings — published 2013
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 640 times as design)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,393 ratings — published 2016
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 622 times as design)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,944 ratings — published 1966
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 622 times as design)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,530 ratings — published 1995
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 601 times as design)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,940 ratings — published 1990
Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 558 times as design)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,698 ratings — published 2012
The Laws of Simplicity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 549 times as design)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,006 ratings — published 2006
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 541 times as design)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,226 ratings — published 1971
The Non-Designer's Design Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 535 times as design)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,914 ratings — published 2011
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 527 times as design)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,757 ratings — published 1972
Design Is a Job (Paperback)
by (shelved 517 times as design)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,058 ratings — published 2012
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play (Hardcover)
by (shelved 472 times as design)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,969 ratings — published 2019
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 462 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,612 ratings — published 2010
Just Enough Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 457 times as design)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,129 ratings — published 2013
Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 446 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,818 ratings — published 2015
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 445 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,012 ratings — published 2005
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 422 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,184 ratings — published 2013
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 421 times as design)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,134 ratings — published 2002
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 415 times as design)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,085 ratings — published 2003
The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 411 times as design)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,619 ratings — published
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities (Paperback)
by (shelved 402 times as design)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,230 ratings — published 2009
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 388 times as design)
avg rating 4.08 — 61,011 ratings — published 2014
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 379 times as design)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,430 ratings — published 1977
Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 377 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,707 ratings — published 2003
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 360 times as design)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,115 ratings — published
Designing for Emotion (Paperback)
by (shelved 360 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,668 ratings — published 2011
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 356 times as design)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,138 ratings — published 2015
Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as design)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,583 ratings — published
Design Is Storytelling (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,714 ratings — published 2017
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,258 ratings — published 2008
Designing Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 311 times as design)
avg rating 4.50 — 969 ratings — published 2003
Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems (Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,365 ratings — published 2009
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 302 times as design)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,492 ratings — published 2018
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (Hardcover)
by (shelved 287 times as design)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,103 ratings — published 1997
Thoughts on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 283 times as design)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,117 ratings — published 1947
Designing Interfaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as design)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,023 ratings — published 2005
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 272 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,843 ratings — published 1983
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as design)
avg rating 3.94 — 434,185 ratings — published 1972
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