§Collection
The Designer's Reading List
Books about design, cognitive psychology, and user experience
Designing for Emotion
Aaron Walter, 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman, 2011
Steal Like an Artist
Austin Kleon, 2012
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Nir Eyal, 2001
Grid Systems in Graphic Design
Josef Müller-Brockmann, D. Q. Stephenson, Josef MA1/4ller-Brockmann, 1996
Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research
Mike Kuniavsky, 2003
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People
Susan Weinschenk, 1920
Paul Rand: A Designer's Art
Paul Rand, 1985
About Face
Alan Cooper, 1995
Less but Better
Dieter Rams, 2014
Contagious
Jonah Berger, 2013
Well-designed
Jon Kolko, 2014
Emotional Design
Donald A. Norman, 2003
The Art & Science of Web Design
Jeffrey Veen, 2001
Thinking with Type
Ellen Lupton, 2004
Think Like a UX Researcher
Philip Hodgson, David Travis, 2019
A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences
Whitney Quesenbery, Sarah Horton, 2013
Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design
Michael Bierut, 2007
The Art of Looking Sideways
Alan Fletcher, 2001
Thoughts on Design
Paul Rand, 1947
Designing with Web Standards
Ethan Marcotte, Jeffrey Zeldman, 2003
Graphic Design Visionaries
Caroline Roberts, 2015
The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman, 1988
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Steve Krug, 2000
§ About this list
- Books
- 25
- Published
- 1920–2019
- Average rating
- 4.1 / 5 across 1,303 ratings
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Design, Business & Economics, General
Most-rated on The Designer's Reading List
- 1Thinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman
- 2Steal Like an Artist · Austin Kleon
- 3Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products · Nir Eyal
Common questions about The Designer's Reading List
- How many books are on The Designer's Reading List?
- The Designer's Reading List has 25 books, published between 1920 and 2019.
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- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman is the most-rated book on the list, with 646 ratings and a 4.1 average.
- What is the highest-rated book on The Designer's Reading List?
- Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon has the highest average rating among the list's books with at least 100 ratings: 4.1 out of 5.
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- Start with Thinking, Fast and Slow, Steal Like an Artist and Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products: the three most-rated books on the list.
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