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Gift Guide — Books for the Designer in Your Life

Ryan Nance December 11, 2017

Often I get asked a lot of times about which books I'd recommend for the designers in their lives. Here is a short list.

Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies)

By Bill Buxton

Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills

By David Sherwin

Type Matters!

By Jim Williams

Burn Your Portfolio: Stuff they don't teach you in design school, but should

By Michael Janda

Paul Rand: A Designer's Art

By Paul Rand

Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything

By Aaron James Draplin

The Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World by Nelson, Harold G., Stolterman, Erik (2014) Paperback

The MIT Press

Look Inside: Cutaway Illustrations and Visual Storytelling

Gestalten

Photoviz: Visualizing Information through Photography

Gestalten

The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture

By Juhani Pallasmaa

Graphic: 500 Designs that Matter

By Phaidon Editors

Thinking, Fast and Slow

By Daniel Kahneman