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The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 3658 times as design)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,334 ratings — published 1988
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 1969 times as design)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,934 ratings — published 2000
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 1240 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,617 ratings — published 2004
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1146 times as design)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,886 ratings — published 2003
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 1088 times as design)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,293 ratings — published 2011
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 885 times as design)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,079 ratings — published 1992
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
by (shelved 819 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,550 ratings — published 2003
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 750 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 344,548 ratings — published 2012
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 742 times as design)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,357 ratings — published 1996
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 717 times as design)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,733 ratings — published 1983
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
by (shelved 664 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 51,024 ratings — published 2013
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 655 times as design)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,070 ratings — published 2009
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 642 times as design)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,674 ratings — published 2016
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 633 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,155 ratings — published 1966
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 625 times as design)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,534 ratings — published 1995
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 601 times as design)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,963 ratings — published 1990
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 560 times as design)
avg rating 3.89 — 16,076 ratings — published 1963
The Laws of Simplicity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 554 times as design)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,042 ratings — published 2006
Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 553 times as design)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,739 ratings — published 2012
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 542 times as design)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,787 ratings — published 1972
The Non-Designer's Design Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 535 times as design)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,964 ratings — published 2011
Design Is a Job (Paperback)
by (shelved 513 times as design)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,069 ratings — published 2012
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play (Hardcover)
by (shelved 485 times as design)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,055 ratings — published 2019
Just Enough Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 463 times as design)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,147 ratings — published 2013
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 463 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 62,065 ratings — published 2010
Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 460 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,883 ratings — published 2015
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 446 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,016 ratings — published 2005
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 425 times as design)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,329 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 — 4,132 ratings — published 2002
The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 417 times as design)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,648 ratings — published
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 414 times as design)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,101 ratings — published 2003
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities (Paperback)
by (shelved 403 times as design)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,251 ratings — published 2009
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 384 times as design)
avg rating 4.07 — 62,921 ratings — published 2014
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 384 times as design)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,503 ratings — published 1977
Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 376 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,722 ratings — published 2003
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 366 times as design)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,148 ratings — published
Designing for Emotion (Paperback)
by (shelved 361 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,667 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 357 times as design)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,157 ratings — published 2015
Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services (Paperback)
by (shelved 336 times as design)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,655 ratings — published
Design Is Storytelling (Paperback)
by (shelved 329 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,803 ratings — published 2017
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 325 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,282 ratings — published 2008
Designing Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 320 times as design)
avg rating 4.49 — 990 ratings — published 2003
Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 306 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,384 ratings — published 2009
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 302 times as design)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,524 ratings — published 2018
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (Hardcover)
by (shelved 292 times as design)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,121 ratings — published 1997
Thoughts on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 283 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,125 ratings — published 1947
Designing Interfaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 280 times as design)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,020 ratings — published 2005
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as design)
avg rating 3.94 — 445,941 ratings — published 1972
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 274 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,850 ratings — published 1983
“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.”
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