Design


The Creative Act: A Way of Being
The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy
Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
My Hygge Home: How to Make Home Your Happy Place
System Design Interview – An insider's guide
Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
Marketing Made Simple: A Step-By-Step Storybrand Guide for Any Business
How to Be an Artist
Feng Shui Modern
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life
The Design of Everyday Things
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students
Universal Principles of Design
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
The Elements of Typographic Style
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
Design as Art
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeEverything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran FoerThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Best Typography on a Book Cover
642 books — 193 voters
Of Dice and Men by David M. EwaltPlaying at the World by Jon PetersonEducational Game Design Fundamentals by George KalmpourtzisDesigners & Dragons by Shannon AppelclineDesigners & Dragons by Shannon Appelcline
Best Books on RPGs
76 books — 37 voters

The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. NormanDon't Make Me Think, Revisited by Steve KrugUniversal Principles of Design by William LidwellAbout Face 3 by Alan CooperThe Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett
UX books
82 books — 140 voters

AI Doctor by Ronald M. RazmiThe Book of Why by Judea PearlA Brief History of Intelligence by Max Solomon BennettAI 2041 by Kai-Fu LeeCo-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick
Future Technology (nonfiction)
92 books — 135 voters


Gaston Bachelard
When the image is new, the world is new.
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

Steve Jobs
Real artists ship.
Steve Jobs

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