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The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 3626 times as design)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,706 ratings — published 1988
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 1950 times as design)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,750 ratings — published 2000
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 1223 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,566 ratings — published 2004
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1133 times as design)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,886 ratings — published 2003
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 1086 times as design)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,265 ratings — published 2011
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 887 times as design)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,054 ratings — published 1992
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
by (shelved 811 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,506 ratings — published 2003
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 746 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 338,382 ratings — published 2012
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 728 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,320 ratings — published 1996
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 716 times as design)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,677 ratings — published 1983
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
by (shelved 653 times as design)
avg rating 4.12 — 50,205 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 — 11,025 ratings — published 2009
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 640 times as design)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,492 ratings — published 2016
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 623 times as design)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,006 ratings — published 1966
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 623 times as design)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,529 ratings — published 1995
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 600 times as design)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,953 ratings — published 1990
Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 554 times as design)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,720 ratings — published 2012
The Laws of Simplicity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 552 times as design)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,015 ratings — published 2006
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 541 times as design)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,460 ratings — published 1971
The Non-Designer's Design Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 537 times as design)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,924 ratings — published 2011
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 533 times as design)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,766 ratings — published 1972
Design Is a Job (Paperback)
by (shelved 514 times as design)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,060 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 — 2,993 ratings — published 2019
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 462 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,676 ratings — published 2010
Just Enough Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 456 times as design)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,134 ratings — published 2013
Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 449 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,844 ratings — published 2015
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 443 times as design)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,014 ratings — published 2005
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 421 times as design)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,232 ratings — published 2013
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 420 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 — 4,094 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 — 1,627 ratings — published
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities (Paperback)
by (shelved 402 times as design)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,236 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 — 61,555 ratings — published 2014
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 382 times as design)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,453 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 — 2,708 ratings — published 2003
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 364 times as design)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,126 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 4.32 — 1,146 ratings — published 2015
Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services (Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as design)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,616 ratings — published
Design Is Storytelling (Paperback)
by (shelved 324 times as design)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,749 ratings — published 2017
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 324 times as design)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,262 ratings — published 2008
Designing Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 315 times as design)
avg rating 4.49 — 979 ratings — published 2003
Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 305 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,375 ratings — published 2009
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 299 times as design)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,496 ratings — published 2018
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (Hardcover)
by (shelved 287 times as design)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,111 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 278 times as design)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,023 ratings — published 2005
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 272 times as design)
avg rating 3.94 — 437,628 ratings — published 1972
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 271 times as design)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,847 ratings — published 1983
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