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The Designer's Reading List

Books about design, cognitive psychology, and user experience

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People

1920 • 74 Readers • 256 pages 4.2

About Face

About Face
ByAlan Cooper

1995 • 9 Readers • 720 pages

A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences

2013 • 4 Readers

Color Design Workbook

Color Design Workbook
ByTerry Lee Stone,Sean Adams,+1 more

2008 • 4 Readers • 240 pages 4

Contagious

Contagious
ByJonah Berger

2013 • 129 Readers • 210 pages 3.5

Designing for Emotion

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Designing for Emotion
ByAaron Walter

2011 • 29 Readers • 104 pages 3.9

Designing with Web Standards

Designing with Web Standards
ByJeffrey Zeldman,Ethan Marcotte

2003 • 17 Readers • 432 pages 4.6

Don't Make Me Think!

2006 • 9 Readers • 201 pages 4.7

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Emotional Design

Emotional Design
ByDonald A. Norman

2003 • 47 Readers • 272 pages 3.4

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Graphic Design Visionaries

Graphic Design Visionaries
ByCaroline Roberts

2015 • 3 Readers • 312 pages

Grid Systems in Graphic Design

Grid Systems in Graphic Design
ByJosef Müller-Brockmann,Josef MA1/4ller-Brockmann,+1 more

1996 • 1 Reader • 176 pages

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

2001 • 291 Readers 3.9

Less but Better

Less but Better
ByDieter Rams

2014 • 5 Readers • 154 pages

Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research

2003 • 9 Readers • 576 pages 5

Paul Rand: A Designer's Art

1985 • 14 Readers • 239 pages 4.3

Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design

2007 • 11 Readers • 240 pages 4.5

Steal Like an Artist

Steal Like an Artist
ByAustin Kleon

2012 • 474 Readers • 160 pages 4.2

The Art of Looking Sideways

2001 • 34 Readers • 533 pages 4.3

The Art & Science of Web Design

2001 • 1 Reader • 259 pages

The Design of Everyday Things

1988 • 112 Readers • 368 pages 4.2

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow
ByDaniel Kahneman

2011 • 1,537 Readers • 499 pages 4.1

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Thinking with Type

Thinking with Type
ByEllen Lupton

2004 • 80 Readers • 176 pages 4.2

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Think Like a UX Researcher

Think Like a UX Researcher
ByDavid Travis,Philip Hodgson

2019 • 5 Readers • 306 pages

Thoughts on Design

Thoughts on Design
ByPaul Rand(Author, Illustrator),Michael Bierut(Foreword)

1947 • 26 Readers • 95 pages 4

Well-designed

Well-designed
ByJon Kolko

2014 • 15 Readers • 248 pages