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The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 3569 times as design)
avg rating 4.15 — 46,772 ratings — published 1988
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 1936 times as design)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,423 ratings — published 2000
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 1218 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,489 ratings — published 2004
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1123 times as design)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,864 ratings — published 2003
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 1077 times as design)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,202 ratings — published 2011
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 877 times as design)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,037 ratings — published 1992
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
by (shelved 803 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,421 ratings — published 2003
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 728 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 327,699 ratings — published 2012
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 715 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,257 ratings — published 1996
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 713 times as design)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,605 ratings — published 1983
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 644 times as design)
avg rating 3.89 — 10,928 ratings — published 2009
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
by (shelved 642 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,095 ratings — published 2013
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 628 times as design)
avg rating 4.19 — 23,148 ratings — published 2016
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 622 times as design)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,523 ratings — published 1995
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 606 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,817 ratings — published 1966
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 603 times as design)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,922 ratings — published 1990
Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 554 times as design)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,659 ratings — published 2012
The Laws of Simplicity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 544 times as design)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,968 ratings — published 2006
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 539 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 14,302 ratings — published 1971
The Non-Designer's Design Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 523 times as design)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,871 ratings — published 2011
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 519 times as design)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,733 ratings — published 1972
Design Is a Job (Paperback)
by (shelved 518 times as design)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,056 ratings — published 2012
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play (Hardcover)
by (shelved 460 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,880 ratings — published 2019
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 459 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,879 ratings — published 2010
Just Enough Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 454 times as design)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,097 ratings — published 2013
Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 442 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,771 ratings — published 2015
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 438 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,004 ratings — published 2005
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 425 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,086 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 — 4,130 ratings — published 2002
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 412 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 — 1,591 ratings — published 2013
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities (Paperback)
by (shelved 399 times as design)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,216 ratings — published 2009
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 383 times as design)
avg rating 4.09 — 59,314 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 — 2,699 ratings — published 2003
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 371 times as design)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,352 ratings — published 1977
Designing for Emotion (Paperback)
by (shelved 360 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,668 ratings — published 2011
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 354 times as design)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,096 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 347 times as design)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,128 ratings — published 2015
Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services (Paperback)
by (shelved 323 times as design)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,520 ratings — published
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,248 ratings — published 2008
Design Is Storytelling (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as design)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,653 ratings — published 2017
Designing Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 305 times as design)
avg rating 4.50 — 965 ratings — published 2003
Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 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 — 1,455 ratings — published 2018
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (Hardcover)
by (shelved 284 times as design)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,095 ratings — published 1997
Thoughts on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 278 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,111 ratings — published 1947
Designing Interfaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as design)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,999 ratings — published 2005
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 266 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,839 ratings — published 1983
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as design)
avg rating 3.94 — 423,194 ratings — published 1972
“Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.”
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“It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.
[Can You Believe in God and Evolution? Time Magazine, August 7, 2005]”
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[Can You Believe in God and Evolution? Time Magazine, August 7, 2005]”
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