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The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,532 ratings — published 1988
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System (pdf)
by (shelved 2 times as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.71 — 167 ratings — published 1999
What Technology Wants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 3.74 — 7,208 ratings — published 2010
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 3.96 — 242,608 ratings — published 2015
BIG. Formgiving: An Architectural Future History (Varia)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 90 ratings — published 2020
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,198 ratings — published
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 34,575 ratings — published 1933
Maintenance of Everything: Part One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 3.96 — 728 ratings — published 2026
The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 3.52 — 3,983 ratings — published
Inevitable: Inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to Electric Vehicles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 169 ratings — published
Cromorama. Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,916 ratings — published 2017
Fantasia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,170 ratings — published 1977
The Product-Led Playbook: How to Unlock Self-Serve Revenue and Dominate Your Market (With a Tiny Team) (ProductLed Library Book 2)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.40 — 63 ratings — published
Neuro Design: Neuromarketing Insights to Boost Engagement and Profitability (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 52 ratings — published
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,988 ratings — published 1990
Closing the Loop: Systems Thinking for Designers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 76 ratings — published
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 3.84 — 97,546 ratings — published 1912
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,513 ratings — published 1960
Real-World Algorithms: A Beginner's Guide (Mit Press)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 3.69 — 13 ratings — published
Mindful Design: How and Why to Make Design Decisions for the Good of Those Using Your Product (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 46 ratings — published
Design, Form, and Chaos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 268 ratings — published 1993
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,714 ratings — published 2004
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,499 ratings — published 2025
The Laws of Simplicity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,090 ratings — published 2006
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,817 ratings — published 1972
Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.37 — 540 ratings — published
Design for a Radically Changing World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 3.94 — 102,534 ratings — published 2023
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 15,792 ratings — published 2012
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.45 — 393,602 ratings — published 2016
Brave New Home: Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 3.71 — 312 ratings — published 2020
Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,315 ratings — published 2023
Textilepedia: The Complete Fabric Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.63 — 259 ratings — published 2020
100 Years of Vintage Watches: Identification and Price Guide, 2nd Edition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published
Fashionary Bag Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.34 — 110 ratings — published
The Designer's Dictionary of Color: Practical, example-filled guide to thirty key colors, their histories, and persuasive design uses. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.02 — 384 ratings — published 2017
Materials for Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.31 — 62 ratings — published 2014
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 64,598 ratings — published 2014
The Passive Solar Energy Book: A Complete Guide to Passive Solar Home, Greenhouse and Building Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.33 — 63 ratings — published 1979
Emotion By Design: Creative Leadership Lessons from a Life at Nike (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 3.68 — 822 ratings — published 2022
Everything I Know about Life I Learned from PowerPoint (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.31 — 163 ratings — published 2021
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,082 ratings — published 2018
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,333 ratings — published 2011
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.24 — 31,182 ratings — published 2000
The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.33 — 9 ratings — published
Draining New Orleans: The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 82 ratings — published
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,166 ratings — published
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,119 ratings — published 2009
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,854 ratings — published 1978
Architecture: Form, Space, & Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-engineering)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,111 ratings — published 1979