Design


The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
My Hygge Home: How to Make Home Your Happy Place
Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
Feng Shui Modern
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
Doom Guy: Life in First Person
The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew
Art and Faith: A Theology of Making
Emotion By Design: Creative Leadership Lessons from a Life at Nike
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
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
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
Design as Art
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. NormanDesign Basics Index by Jim KrauseThe Elements of Typographic Style by Robert BringhurstEducational Game Design Fundamentals by George KalmpourtzisDesigning With Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman
Best Design Books
119 books — 95 voters

Entwined by Heather Dixon WallworkWither by Lauren DeStefanoUnearthly by Cynthia HandAcross the Universe by Beth RevisDarkest Mercy by Melissa Marr
Beautiful Book Covers of 2011
724 books — 4,067 voters
Hers by Dawn  RobertsonVery Bad Things by Ilsa Madden-MillsConjuring Darkness by Melanie  JamesWhere I Need to Be by Kimberly KnightWanted by Kimberly Knight
Best Adult Indie Book Covers
791 books — 1,423 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
83 books — 141 voters


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

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
Louis Nizer

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