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The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 46,795 ratings — published 1988
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,862 ratings — published 2003
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,734 ratings — published 1972
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 10,935 ratings — published 2009
Designing Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.50 — 965 ratings — published 2003
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 958 ratings — published 2013
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,038 ratings — published 1992
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 14,431 ratings — published 1971
Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation (Design Thinking, Design Theory)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 184 ratings — published 2015
Thoughts on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,111 ratings — published 1947
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,356 ratings — published 1977
Understanding Design (revised edition)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 60 ratings — published 2006
The Pocket Universal Principles of Design: 150 Essential Tools for Architects, Artists, Designers, Developers, Engineers, Inventors, and Makers (Rockport Universal)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.39 — 338 ratings — published 2015
Designing for People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 228 ratings — published 1967
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,204 ratings — published 2011
The Sciences of the Artificial (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 649 ratings — published 1969
Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 844 ratings — published 2011
Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,913 ratings — published 2007
The Vignelli Canon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.41 — 871 ratings — published 2010
The Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 114 ratings — published 2003
The Laws of Simplicity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,970 ratings — published 2006
Living With Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.85 — 955 ratings — published 2010
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,985 ratings — published 1957
Shaping Things (Mediaworks Pamphlets)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 554 ratings — published 2005
Design Is Storytelling (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,659 ratings — published 2017
ABC's of the Bauhaus: The Bauhaus and Design Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.70 — 174 ratings — published 1993
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 20,193 ratings — published 2016
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,754 ratings — published 1994
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,005 ratings — published 2005
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,460 ratings — published 2018
The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,164 ratings — published 2008
Discursive Design: Critical, Speculative, and Alternative Things (Design Thinking, Design Theory)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 21 ratings — published
Designerly Ways of Knowing (Board of International Research in Design)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 70 ratings — published 2003
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 524 ratings — published 2020
The Art of Looking Sideways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,624 ratings — published 2001
Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 409 ratings — published
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,257 ratings — published 1996
This is Service Design Thinking: Basics – Tools – Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,926 ratings — published 2010
The Shape of Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 235 ratings — published 1993
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,102 ratings — published 1933
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,100 ratings — published
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,442 ratings — published 2002
Frame Innovation: Create New Thinking by Design (Design Thinking, Design Theory)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 97 ratings — published 2015
Now You See It and Other Essays on Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 356 ratings — published
The Nature and Aesthetics of Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 40 ratings — published
Design, Form, and Chaos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 262 ratings — published 1993
The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.36 — 729 ratings — published 2009
The Architecture of Happiness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 14,305 ratings — published 2006
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,426 ratings — published 2003
Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 190 ratings — published 2001
“Physically, gardens must have boundaries. Mentally, they can reach to the limits of the known universe. The ideas that bestow such vast extent upon gardens derive from sun, earth, art, water, history, civilization, family, anything.”
― City as Landscape
― City as Landscape
“Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century.”
― City as Landscape
― City as Landscape
