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The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
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Discover the best design books with 141 AI-powered summaries. Each book is distilled into key insights you can read in just 15 minutes.
141 books•Updated April 2026
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven Pinker
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A Designer's Art
Paul Rand
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Architects' Sketchbooks
Various Editors
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Architectural Graphic Standards
The American Institute of Architects
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Design Is Storytelling
Ellen Lupton
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Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers
Josef Müller-Brockmann
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Illustration: A Theoretical and Contextual Perspective
Alan Male
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The Architecture of Community
Leon Krier
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The Secret Lives of Color
Kassia St Clair
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100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People
Susan Weinschenk
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100 Things Every Designer Should Know About People
Susan Weinschenk
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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
Matthew Frederick
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein
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About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design
Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin
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Anatomy For Sculptors: Understanding The Human Figure
Uldis Zarins, Sandis Kondrats
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Blue & Yellow Don’t Make Green
Michael Wilcox
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Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
Tim Brown
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Collage Techniques
Gerald F. Brommer
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Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter
James Gurney
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