library
my current reading pile
- The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It For Life. Twyla Tharp. 2004. New York: Simon and Schuster.
- Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things. Donald A. Norman. 2004. New York: Basic Books.
- Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning.. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. 2003, New York: Viking.
- Inventing Modern: Growing Up
With X-Rays, Skyscapers, and Tailfins.
John H. Leinhard. 2003. New York: Oxford University Press. - Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of documents in the Digital Age. David M. Levy. 2004. New York: Arcade Publishing.
- The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Conciousness. Virginia Postrel. 2003. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.
- The Undressed Art: Why we draw. Peter Stienhart. 2004.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
other lists of favorites
- Core Web design library
- Cascading style sheets & Web standards
- Interaction design
- Graphic design
- Visual information design
core Web design library
- The Art and Science of Web Design. Jeffrey Veen. 2001. Indianapolis: New Riders.
- Designing Web Usability. Jakob Nielsen. 2000. Indianapolis: New Riders.
- Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. Steve Krug. 2000. Indianapolis: Que.
- Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed. Jakob Nielsen & Marie Tahir. 2002. Indianapolis: New Riders.
- HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide. C. Musiano & B. Kennedy.
2004. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly. - Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. Louis Rosenfeld &
Peter Morville.
2004. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly. - Photoshop 7 Bible, Professional Edition. Deke McClelland. 2003. New York: Wiley Publishing.
- Real Web Project Management: Case Studies and Best Practices from the Trenches. T. Shelford & G. Remillard. 2003. Boston: Addison-Wesley.
- The Unusually Useful Web Book. June Cohen. 2003. Indianapolis: New Riders.
cascading style sheets & Web standards
- Cascading Style Sheets 2.0 Programmer’s Reference. Eric A. Meyer. 2001. New York: Osborne/McGraw-Hill.
- Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide. Eric A. Meyer. 2000. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly.
- CSS Cookbook: Quick Solutions to Common CSS Problems. Christopher Schmitt. 2004. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly.
- CSS Pocket Reference, 2nd ed.. Eric A. Meyer. 2004. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly.
- Designing With Web Standards. Jeffrey Zeldman. 2003. Indianapolis: New Riders.
- Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design. Eric A. Meyer. 2002. Indianapolis: New Riders.
- More Eric Meyer on CSS. Eric A. Meyer. 2004. Indianapolis: New Riders.
- Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook. Dan Cederholm. 2004. Berkeley: Apress.
interaction design
- Designing Visual Interfaces:
Communication Oriented Techniques. Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano. 1995.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. - Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 4th ed.. Ben Shneiderman. 2004. Boston: Addison-Wesley.
- The Design of Everyday Things (originally published as The Psychology of Everyday Things). Donald Norman. 1988. New York: Basic Books.
graphic design
- The Elements of Typographic Style.
Robert Bringhurst. 1996.
Vancouver: Hartley & Marks. -
Graphic Design Manual: Principles and Practice. Armin Hofmann. 1965.
New York: Reinhold. -
Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how type works. Erik Spiekermann & E.M. Ginger. 1993.
Mountain View, CA: Adobe Press.
visual information design
- Envisioning Information. Edward Tufte. 1990. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.
- Visual Explanations. Edward Tufte. 1997. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Edward Tufte. 1983.
Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press. - Mr. Beck’s Underground Map. Ken Garland. 1994. Middlesex, UK: Capital Transport Publishing. Unfortunately this one is difficult to find, even as a used book. It's worth the effort, though.
