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Books on Design

Books on Design

General

Design is a Job (Mike Monteiro)
The Design of Everyday Things (Don Norman)
Emotional Design (Don Norman)
Universal Principles of Design: A Cross-Disciplinary Reference (William Lidwell)
Designed for Use (Lukas Mathis)
The Shape of Design (Frank Chimero)

Interfaces

The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems (Jef Raskin)
User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-computer Interaction (Don Norman, Stephen Draper)
Bulletproof Web Design (Dan Cederholm)
Responsive Web Design (Ethan Marcotte)
Designing for Emotion (Aarron Walter)
A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web (Mark Boulton)
Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps (Josh Clark)
Designing Web Usability (Jakob Nielsen)
Usability Engineering (Jakob Nielsen)
Usability Inspection Methods (Jakob Nielsen)

Information

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (Edward Tufte)
Beautiful Evidence (Edward Tufte)
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Edward Tufte)
Envisioning Information (Edward Tufte)
Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design (Robert Klanten)
Data Flow 2: Visualising Information in Graphic Design (Robert Klanten)
A Practical Guide to Designing the Invisible (Robert Mills)
A Practical Guide to Designing with Data (Brian Suda)
A Practical Guide to Information Architecture (Donna Spencer)

Typography

Just My Type (Simon Garfield)

Iconography

Symbol (Angus Hyland)
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities (David Airey)

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