Design Books Recommendations

Comments primarily recommend books and resources on design principles, usability, UI/UX, and typography for non-designers, especially programmers and hackers.

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adrianhel Mar 15, 2019 View on HN

The Non-designers Design Book is pretty good.

olau Nov 18, 2022 View on HN

I can recommend The Design of Design. It's a bit chatty, but I haven't seen the material in there elsewhere, and it did change my perspective quite a bit, to the point where I could see some "conventional wisdom" at the time being entirely wrong.

breckinloggins Feb 11, 2013 View on HN

I'm in the same boat. I'm not very good but I'm starting to get better at design. Here are some tips, which might be useful. None of these are affiliate links and I'm not associated with any of them, if that matters.- It's cliche, but read "The Design of Everyday Things" by Donald Norman [1]. It gives you a good sense of design's place in the greater world. The best design principles are as at home in a product development firm as they are in the software world.- I own "Design for Hac

revorad Jan 28, 2012 View on HN

Design for Hackers by David Kadavy is really good - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1119998956/ref=as_li_qf_sp_...

needle0 Dec 15, 2019 View on HN

The Non-Designer's Design Book is also recommended: https://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-4th/dp/0133...

WickyNilliams Mar 2, 2015 View on HN

Can recommend these two books: The Design of Everyday Things and The Non-Designer's Design Book.TDoET will teach you about usability and designing for that. TNDDB will give you a vocabulary for design (much like design patterns give a common vocabulary for code problems, this does for design IMO).

mhomde May 4, 2018 View on HN

There are tons of articles and books on design. In the same way you build your toolbox with programming with algorithms, concepts design patterns, best practices, you need to build one for design. Ergonomics, color theory, typography, ergonomics, Fitt's law etc etc. Then work on applying them until you develop and intuition for what's the best solution to a problem.With design, maybe more so than with code, it's a lot about developing good taste. Code can be empirically worse o

akerro Dec 12, 2018 View on HN

This book is recommended quite often here https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11457105-design-for-hack...

pree Oct 2, 2022 View on HN

here is my list of design related books that might help https://medium.com/p/2da6cbae45c5

Ecio78 Nov 4, 2011 View on HN

What about http://www.designforhackers.com/ ? I havent read it (im not an UI guy)