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The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,311 ratings — published 1988
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,901 ratings — published 2003
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,811 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 — 11,116 ratings — published 2009
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,029 ratings — published 2013
Designing Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.49 — 998 ratings — published 2003
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,105 ratings — published 1992
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.90 — 16,856 ratings — published 1963
Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation (Design Thinking, Design Theory)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 212 ratings — published 2015
Thoughts on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,136 ratings — published 1947
The Sciences of the Artificial (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.28 — 692 ratings — published 1969
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,573 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 4.40 — 344 ratings — published 2015
Designing for People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 239 ratings — published 1967
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,334 ratings — published 2011
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,307 ratings — published 1966
Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 866 ratings — published 2011
79 Short Essays on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,923 ratings — published 2007
The Vignelli Canon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.41 — 926 ratings — published 2010
The Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 116 ratings — published 2003
The Laws of Simplicity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,083 ratings — published 2006
Living With Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.85 — 972 ratings — published 2010
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,671 ratings — published 1957
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,685 ratings — published 2004
Shaping Things (Mediaworks Pamphlets)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 557 ratings — published 2005
Design Is Storytelling (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,852 ratings — published 2017
ABC's of the Bauhaus: The Bauhaus and Design Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 187 ratings — published 1993
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,909 ratings — published 2016
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,225 ratings — published 1993
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,859 ratings — published 1983
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,189 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 — 5,028 ratings — published 2005
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,550 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 — 1,229 ratings — published 2008
Discursive Design: Critical, Speculative, and Alternative Things (Design Thinking, Design Theory)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.36 — 25 ratings — published
Designerly Ways of Knowing (Board of International Research in Design)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 71 ratings — published 2003
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 556 ratings — published 2020
The Art of Looking Sideways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,637 ratings — published 2001
Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 461 ratings — published
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,711 ratings — published 1996
This is Service Design Thinking: Basics – Tools – Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,947 ratings — published 2010
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,095 ratings — published 2019
The Shape of Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 244 ratings — published 1993
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 33,316 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 — 2,165 ratings — published
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,615 ratings — published 2002
Frame Innovation: Create New Thinking by Design (Design Thinking, Design Theory)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 104 ratings — published 2015
Now You See It and Other Essays on Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 363 ratings — published
The Nature and Aesthetics of Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 42 ratings — published
“Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.”
― European Gardens: History, Philosophy and Design
― European Gardens: History, Philosophy and Design
“Полезное действие системы — это ради чего она существует. Полезное действие продукта — это за что люди готовы платить деньги.
Первый универсальный закон дизайна — максимизация полезного действия. Независимо от личных целей предпринимателей, устремлений инженеров и амбиций дизайнеров, системы движутся в сторону повышения пользы для других людей. Не повезёт одному продукту — появится другой, более полезный и востребованный. Прогресс ведёт к максимизации полезного действия.”
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Первый универсальный закон дизайна — максимизация полезного действия. Независимо от личных целей предпринимателей, устремлений инженеров и амбиций дизайнеров, системы движутся в сторону повышения пользы для других людей. Не повезёт одному продукту — появится другой, более полезный и востребованный. Прогресс ведёт к максимизации полезного действия.”
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