Design


The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart: What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive
Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
The Little Book of Cottagecore: Traditional Skills for a Simpler Life
My Hygge Home: How to Make Home Your Happy Place
System Design Interview – An insider's guide
How to Be an Artist
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy
The World According to Color: A Cultural History
Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
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
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed.
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
Envisioning Information
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeEverything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran FoerThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Best Typography on a Book Cover
642 books — 193 voters
The Past by Kenneth   ThomasBehind the Mask by Juliet M. SampsonBon Voyage! by Juliet M. SampsonOutback Wonder by Juliet M. SampsonDance Demons by Juliet M. Sampson
Young Adult Best Cover Award
49 books — 44 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 — 4,076 voters
Grace by Grace CoddingtonD.V. by Diana Vreeland#Girlboss by Sophia AmorusoWildchilds by Eugenia MelianLove, Loss, and What I Wore by Ilene Beckerman
Best Fashion World Books
81 books — 29 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
82 books — 140 voters


Douglas Adams
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

Steve Jobs
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. ...more
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