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The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 3652 times as design)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,099 ratings — published 1988
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 1956 times as design)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,856 ratings — published 2000
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 1232 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,602 ratings — published 2004
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1138 times as design)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,881 ratings — published 2003
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 1086 times as design)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,287 ratings — published 2011
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 883 times as design)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,068 ratings — published 1992
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
by (shelved 816 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,533 ratings — published 2003
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 747 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 341,596 ratings — published 2012
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 738 times as design)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,344 ratings — published 1996
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 716 times as design)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,713 ratings — published 1983
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
by (shelved 657 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 50,640 ratings — published 2013
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 652 times as design)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,054 ratings — published 2009
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 639 times as design)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,609 ratings — published 2016
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 631 times as design)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,101 ratings — published 1966
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 625 times as design)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,532 ratings — published 1995
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 600 times as design)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,955 ratings — published 1990
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 556 times as design)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,737 ratings — published 1963
Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 554 times as design)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,734 ratings — published 2012
The Laws of Simplicity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 548 times as design)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,031 ratings — published 2006
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 539 times as design)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,782 ratings — published 1972
The Non-Designer's Design Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 537 times as design)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,951 ratings — published 2011
Design Is a Job (Paperback)
by (shelved 509 times as design)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,068 ratings — published 2012
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play (Hardcover)
by (shelved 484 times as design)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,038 ratings — published 2019
Just Enough Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 462 times as design)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,140 ratings — published 2013
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 461 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,865 ratings — published 2010
Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 456 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,866 ratings — published 2015
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 443 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,014 ratings — published 2005
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 421 times as design)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,285 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 — 4,130 ratings — published 2002
The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 414 times as design)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,641 ratings — published
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 411 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 402 times as design)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,248 ratings — published 2009
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 386 times as design)
avg rating 4.08 — 62,228 ratings — published 2014
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 383 times as design)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,488 ratings — published 1977
Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 375 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,713 ratings — published 2003
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 364 times as design)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,139 ratings — published
Designing for Emotion (Paperback)
by (shelved 358 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,665 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 355 times as design)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,149 ratings — published 2015
Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as design)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,638 ratings — published
Design Is Storytelling (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,789 ratings — published 2017
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 326 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,274 ratings — published 2008
Designing Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 318 times as design)
avg rating 4.49 — 984 ratings — published 2003
Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 305 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,380 ratings — published 2009
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 301 times as design)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,516 ratings — published 2018
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (Hardcover)
by (shelved 289 times as design)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,117 ratings — published 1997
Thoughts on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 283 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,124 ratings — published 1947
Designing Interfaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as design)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,019 ratings — published 2005
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as design)
avg rating 3.94 — 442,074 ratings — published 1972
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 272 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,848 ratings — published 1983
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