# Design management books

> A short reading list on design management and workflow: the Robertsons on requirements, Wiegers on software requirements, Goto & Cotler's Web Redesign.

- Page: https://www.elasticspace.com/2003/10/design-management/
- Author: Timo Arnall (https://www.elasticspace.com/)
- Section: Notes (https://www.elasticspace.com/notes/)
- Published: 2003-10-12
- Updated: 2026-07-05
- Tags: Adaptive Design, Books, Interaction Design, Research
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This is one of a series of reading lists I put together between 2002 and 2004 when I was starting out in interaction and experience design, building out a personal canon from books I was buying, borrowing from libraries, or lending to students. The lists are grouped by topic. This one is the shortest on the shelf and the most practical, the books on managing design projects, gathering requirements and running workflows.

The Robertsons’ Mastering the Requirements Process is the standard reference on requirements gathering. Karl Wiegers’s Software Requirements is the software-engineering equivalent. Goto & Cotler’s Web Redesign is of its moment but it was the manual every web-design studio had on a shelf in 2003.

The Amazon links below are what I had at the time, most will be dead now, but the ISBNs will find you a copy.

### Mastering the Requirements Process

Suzanne Robertson, James Robertson.
[amazon.co.uk](http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201360462/elasticspace-21) / [amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201360462/elasticspace-20)

### Software Requirements

Karl E. Wiegers.
[amazon.co.uk](http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735606315/elasticspace-21) / [amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735606315/elasticspace-20)

### Collaborative Web Development

Jessica Burdman.
[amazon.co.uk](http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201433311/elasticspace-21) / [amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201433311/elasticspace-20)

### Web Redesign: Workflow that Works

Kelly Goto, Emily Cotler.
[amazon.co.uk](http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735710627/elasticspace-21) / [amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735710627/elasticspace-20)

### Rapid Application Development

Steve McConnell.
[amazon.co.uk](http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556159005/elasticspace-21) / [amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556159005/elasticspace-20)