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The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 3619 times as design)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,492 ratings — published 1988
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 1948 times as design)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,672 ratings — published 2000
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 1224 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,548 ratings — published 2004
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1135 times as design)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,876 ratings — published 2003
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 1086 times as design)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,248 ratings — published 2011
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 887 times as design)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,045 ratings — published 1992
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
by (shelved 810 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,486 ratings — published 2003
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 744 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 336,567 ratings — published 2012
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 727 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,303 ratings — published 1996
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 716 times as design)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,663 ratings — published 1983
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
by (shelved 652 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,990 ratings — published 2013
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 651 times as design)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,006 ratings — published 2009
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 641 times as design)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,430 ratings — published 2016
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 624 times as design)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,529 ratings — published 1995
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 623 times as design)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,968 ratings — published 1966
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 600 times as design)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,947 ratings — published 1990
Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 558 times as design)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,701 ratings — published 2012
The Laws of Simplicity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 551 times as design)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,007 ratings — published 2006
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 538 times as design)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,309 ratings — published 1971
The Non-Designer's Design Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 536 times as design)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,919 ratings — published 2011
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 532 times as design)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,762 ratings — published 1972
Design Is a Job (Paperback)
by (shelved 513 times as design)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,058 ratings — published 2012
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play (Hardcover)
by (shelved 475 times as design)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,975 ratings — published 2019
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 462 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,615 ratings — published 2010
Just Enough Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 456 times as design)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,128 ratings — published 2013
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 445 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,010 ratings — published 2005
Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 444 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,825 ratings — published 2015
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 422 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,199 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 — 4,135 ratings — published 2002
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 417 times as design)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,086 ratings — published 2003
The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 412 times as design)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,620 ratings — published
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities (Paperback)
by (shelved 402 times as design)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,232 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 — 61,191 ratings — published 2014
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 378 times as design)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,436 ratings — published 1977
Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 377 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,706 ratings — published 2003
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 362 times as design)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,117 ratings — published
Designing for Emotion (Paperback)
by (shelved 358 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,667 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 4.33 — 1,141 ratings — published 2015
Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as design)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,595 ratings — published
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 324 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,258 ratings — published 2008
Design Is Storytelling (Paperback)
by (shelved 323 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,730 ratings — published 2017
Designing Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 313 times as design)
avg rating 4.50 — 971 ratings — published 2003
Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems (Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,366 ratings — published 2009
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 299 times as design)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,489 ratings — published 2018
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (Hardcover)
by (shelved 287 times as design)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,108 ratings — published 1997
Thoughts on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 283 times as design)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,117 ratings — published 1947
Designing Interfaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as design)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,021 ratings — published 2005
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 271 times as design)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,841 ratings — published 1983
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as design)
avg rating 3.94 — 435,100 ratings — published 1972
“Think of yourself as a brand. You need to be remembered. What will they remember you for? What defines you? If you have it in you, do something that defines you. Invent something, develop a unique skill, get noticed for something — it creates a talking point.”
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“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
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