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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 • 53 Readers • 256 pages 3.9

About Face

About Face
ByAlan Cooper

1995 • 10 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 • 99 Readers • 210 pages 3.6

Designing For Emotion

Designing For Emotion
ByAarron Walter

2011 • 18 Readers 4.1

Designing with Web Standards

2003 • 13 Readers • 410 pages 4.6

Don't Make Me Think!

2006 • 7 Readers • 201 pages 4.5

Emotional Design

Emotional Design
ByDonald A. Norman

2003 • 30 Readers • 272 pages 3.3

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 • 225 Readers 4

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 • 9 Readers • 239 pages 4

Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design

2007 • 7 Readers • 240 pages 5

Steal Like an Artist

Steal Like an Artist
ByAustin Kleon

2012 • 360 Readers • 160 pages 4.2

The Art of Looking Sideways

2001 • 18 Readers • 533 pages 4.7

The Art & Science of Web Design

2001 • 1 Reader • 259 pages

The Design of Everyday Things

1988 • 98 Readers • 368 pages 4.2

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow
ByDaniel Kahneman

2011 • 1,153 Readers • 499 pages 4.1

Thinking with Type

Thinking with Type
ByEllen Lupton

2004 • 51 Readers • 176 pages 4

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 • 17 Readers • 95 pages 3.8

Well-designed

Well-designed
ByJon Kolko

2014 • 7 Readers • 248 pages