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The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 3589 times as design)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,070 ratings — published 1988
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 1941 times as design)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,528 ratings — published 2000
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 1221 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,518 ratings — published 2004
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1128 times as design)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,868 ratings — published 2003
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 1080 times as design)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,225 ratings — published 2011
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 881 times as design)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,041 ratings — published 1992
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
by (shelved 808 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,446 ratings — published 2003
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 737 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 331,512 ratings — published 2012
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 720 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,276 ratings — published 1996
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 714 times as design)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,623 ratings — published 1983
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 647 times as design)
avg rating 3.89 — 10,970 ratings — published 2009
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
by (shelved 643 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,527 ratings — published 2013
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 633 times as design)
avg rating 4.19 — 23,255 ratings — published 2016
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 619 times as design)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,527 ratings — published 1995
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 611 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,880 ratings — published 1966
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 600 times as design)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,930 ratings — published 1990
Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 558 times as design)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,680 ratings — published 2012
The Laws of Simplicity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 549 times as design)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,987 ratings — published 2006
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 539 times as design)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,664 ratings — published 1971
The Non-Designer's Design Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 531 times as design)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,890 ratings — published 2011
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 521 times as design)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,744 ratings — published 1972
Design Is a Job (Paperback)
by (shelved 518 times as design)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,055 ratings — published 2012
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play (Hardcover)
by (shelved 464 times as design)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,930 ratings — published 2019
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 459 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,273 ratings — published 2010
Just Enough Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 454 times as design)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,111 ratings — published 2013
Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 445 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,794 ratings — published 2015
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 443 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,010 ratings — published 2005
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 424 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,132 ratings — published 2013
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 419 times as design)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,132 ratings — published 2002
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 414 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 407 times as design)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,607 ratings — published
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities (Paperback)
by (shelved 400 times as design)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,226 ratings — published 2009
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 388 times as design)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,080 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 — 2,704 ratings — published 2003
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 373 times as design)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,382 ratings — published 1977
Designing for Emotion (Paperback)
by (shelved 359 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,669 ratings — published 2011
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 358 times as design)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,112 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 354 times as design)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,130 ratings — published 2015
Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services (Paperback)
by (shelved 326 times as design)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,543 ratings — published
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,254 ratings — published 2008
Design Is Storytelling (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,687 ratings — published 2017
Designing Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 310 times as design)
avg rating 4.50 — 967 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 — 4,359 ratings — published 2009
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 300 times as design)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,479 ratings — published 2018
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (Hardcover)
by (shelved 285 times as design)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,100 ratings — published 1997
Thoughts on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 280 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,114 ratings — published 1947
Designing Interfaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 278 times as design)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,018 ratings — published 2005
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 271 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,840 ratings — published 1983
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 262 times as design)
avg rating 3.94 — 428,479 ratings — published 1972
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
― Airman's Odyssey
― Airman's Odyssey
“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
