Designers make things better for people—Good Design is a matter of visual spacial balance (form) and usability (function) in the appropriate context, where context determines intent.
My pursuit of Good Design has led me through many rabbit holes. Here are the resources I've found most pertinent.
1. Attitude
Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert. M Pirsig
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard Feynman
2. Form
By Hand and Eye
George Walker & Jim Tolpin
Thinking With Type
Ellen Lupton
3. Function
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
Don't Make Me Think
Steve Krug
4. Process
Change By Design
Tim Brown
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
Lateral Thinking
Edward de Bono
Prototyping for Designers
Kathryn McElroy
5. Human Behaviour
Nudge
Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein
Thinking Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
6. Technology
How to Speak Tech
Vinay Trivedi
Shaping Things
Bruce Sterling
7. Business
The Personal MBA
Josh Kaufman
Business Model Generation
Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur
8. Complexity
Thinking In Systems
Donella Meadows
How to Make Sense of Any Mess
Abby Covert
9. Research
Just Enough Research
Erika Hall
The Field Guide to HCD
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