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Design books worth keeping

From UX fundamentals to design systems — a hand-picked shelf for working designers.

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Org Design for Design Orgs
Design Career

Org Design for Design Orgs

Peter Merholz & Kristin Skinner

How to build and lead in-house design teams that thrive inside organizations.

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You’re My Favorite Client
Design Career

You’re My Favorite Client

Mike Monteiro

Mike Monteiro on how clients and designers can work together to get great work made.

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Design Systems
Design Systems

Design Systems

Alla Kholmatova

A practical guide to creating design systems and pattern libraries that scale.

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Hardboiled Web Design
Web Design

Hardboiled Web Design

Andy Clarke

Andy Clarke’s take on progressive, standards-based web design with attitude.

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Ruined by Design
Design Career

Ruined by Design

Mike Monteiro

Mike Monteiro’s provocative call for designers to take responsibility for what they make.

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Designing Interface Animation
Motion Design

Designing Interface Animation

Val Head

How motion improves usability and brings interfaces to life, with practical guidance.

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Bulletproof Web Design
Web Design

Bulletproof Web Design

Dan Cederholm

Building flexible, resilient web pages that adapt to users and devices.

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A Web for Everyone
Accessibility

A Web for Everyone

Sarah Horton & Whitney Quesenbery

Designing accessible user experiences that work for people of all abilities.

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Designing with Web Standards
Web Design

Designing with Web Standards

Jeffrey Zeldman & Ethan Marcotte

Jeffrey Zeldman’s influential case for standards-based, accessible, future-friendly web design.

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Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design
Accessibility

Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design

Kat Holmes

Kat Holmes on how designing for exclusion, and against it, shapes who gets to participate.

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Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks
UI Design

Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks

Luke Wroblewski

Everything about designing usable, high-converting web forms.

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The Functional Art
Data Visualization

The Functional Art

Alberto Cairo

An introduction to information graphics and visualization for communication.

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Storytelling with Data
Data Visualization

Storytelling with Data

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

A practical guide to communicating clearly and persuasively with data visualizations.

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Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything
Graphic Design

Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything

Aaron James Draplin

A mid-career survey and pep talk from one of America’s most recognizable designers.

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Envisioning Information
Data Visualization

Envisioning Information

Edward R. Tufte

Tufte on escaping flatland and displaying rich, multidimensional information clearly.

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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Data Visualization

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward R. Tufte

Edward Tufte’s landmark on the theory and practice of data graphics.

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Marks of Excellence
Branding & Logo

Marks of Excellence

Per Mollerup

A history and analysis of the development and taxonomy of trademarks.

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Designing for Performance
Web Design

Designing for Performance

Lara Callender Hogan

A freely-readable guide to building fast websites and weighing performance trade-offs.

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