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Paul Mijksenaar. A small, beautiful and polemical book full of fine examples of good information design, read this before tackling Tufte.
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Digital Diagrams

Trevor Bounford, Alastair Campbell.
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Open Here

Paul Mijksenaar and Piet Westendorp.
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Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference

Robert L. Harris.
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Information Design

Robert E. Jacobsen.
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How to Lie With Statistics

Darrel Huff, Irving Geis.
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Information Visualization

Colin Ware.
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Readings in Information Visualization

Stuart Card, Jock Mackinlay, Ben Schneiderman.
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The Global Media Atlas

Mark Balnaves, James Donald, Donald Stephanie Hemelryk.
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The Atlas of the Future

Ian Pearson.
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The State of the World Atlas

Dan Smith.
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How Maps Work: Representation, Visualization and Design

Alan M. MacEachren.
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Interaction design Reading Research Usability

Usability books

Post author By Timo
Post date 11 August 2003

The Design of Everyday Things

Donald Norman.
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Things That Make Us Smart

Donald Norman.
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The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience

Douglas K. Van Duyne, James Landay, Jason I. Hong.
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User-Centred Web Design

John Cato.
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Contextual Design: A Customer-Centered Approach to Systems Designs

Hugh Beyer, Karen Holtzblatt.
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User and Task Analysis for Interface Design

Joann Hackos, Janice Redish.
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Shaping Web Usability: Interaction Design in Context

Albert N. Badre.
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Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Websites

Andrew Chak.
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Handheld Usability

Scott Weiss.
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Web Accessibility for People With Disabilities

Michael G. Paciello.
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Design by People for People: Essays on Usability

Russell Branaghan.
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Designing Web Usability

Jakob Nielsen.
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Usability Engineering

Jakob Neilsen.
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Web Site Usability

Jared M. Spool.
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Don’t Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Steve Krug.
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Experience design Interaction design Play Reading Research

Game design books

Post author By Timo
Post date 11 April 2003

Rules of Play : Game Design Fundamentals

Katie Salen, Eric Zimmerman.
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Game Design

Bob Bates.
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Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design

Andrew Rollings, Ernest Adams.
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Game Architecture and Design

Andrew Rollings, Dave Morris.
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Game On

Lucien King.
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RE:Play

Liz Faber.
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Electronic Plastic

Jaro Gielens, Robert Klanten.
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Trigger Happy

Steven Poole.
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Adaptive design Experience design

Experience design books

Post author By Timo
Post date 17 February 2003

The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web

Jesse James Garrett. This small book succinctly and professionally explains the entire user-experience field. Every page has some insight to offer; from user-centred strategy to visual branding and graphics. For more information see jjg.net.
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Art as Experience

John Dewey. A classic book written in the 1930s. Read the chapter ‘What is an experience’ for the most astute and intelligent discussion of what makes our world of experience.
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Experience and Nature

John Dewey.
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Experience Design

Nathan Shedroff. Diverse and interesting examples of design being used to shape our experiences. A very poorly designed book.
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
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A Natural History of the Senses

Diane Ackerman.
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The Shape of Content

Ben Shahn.
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British Rail Design

James Cousins. Out of print. A fascinating overview of the complete British Rail user-experience, from the fabric for the seat covers, to carriage design, to signage and pedestrian density in stations.
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Graphic design Information design

Visual design books

Post author By Timo
Post date 28 January 2003

Grid Systems in Graphic Design

Josef Muller-Brockmann.
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Primer of Visual Literacy

Donis A. Dondis.
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Graphic Design Timeline: A Century of Design Milestones

Steven Heller, Elinor Pettit.
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6 Chapters in Design

Philip Meggs.
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Pioneers of Modern Design

Nikolaus Pevsner.
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Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design

Steven Heller.
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Design Literacy (Continued): Understanding Graphic Design

Steven Heller.
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Paul Rand: A Designer’s Art

Paul Rand.
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Design, Form and Chaos

Paul Rand.
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Designing Books

Jost Hochuli, Robin Kinross.
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On Book Design

Richard Hendel.
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Design and Form

Johannes Itten.
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The Elements of Color

Johannes Itten.
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The Color Star

Johannes Itten.
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Interaction of Color

Josef Albers.
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Basic Law of Colour Theory

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Color for Websites: Digital Media Design

Molly Holzschlag.
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Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

Leonard Koren.
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Katachi: Classic Japanese Design

Takeji Iwamiya, Kazuya Takaoka.
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Dutch Graphic Design

Kees Broos, Paul Hefting.
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Experience

Sean Perkins.
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Permanent: Design Is Kinky

Andrew Johnstone, Jade Palmer.
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Catching the Moment

Terry Jones.
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Reload: Browser 2.0

Patrick Burgoyne, Liz Faber.
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Narita Inspected

Lopetz Klanten.
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Mobile Minded

Miekke Gerritzen. An introduction to Mattmo’s work in motion graphics design, interaction design and print.
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Design For Interaction

Lisa Baggerman. This is a very visual book – somewhat disappointing in it’s coverage of interaction, but offers many visual examples of rich web designs for inspiration.
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Graphic design Television

Broadcast design books

Post author By Timo
Post date 26 January 2003

Pause: 59 Minutes of Motion Graphics

Julie Hirschfeld, Stefanie Barth ed.
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Anime

Robert Klanten, Hendrik Hellige, Birga Meyer. Includes 4 ½ hours of motion graphics work on DVD, but the book itself is disappointing.
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