Designer Book List What to get the designer in your life. 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 Buy on Amazon Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills By David Sherwin Buy on Amazon Type Matters! By Jim Williams Buy on Amazon Burn Your Portfolio: Stuff they don't teach you in design school, but should By Michael Janda Buy on Amazon Paul Rand: A Designer's Art By Paul Rand Buy on Amazon Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything By Aaron James Draplin Buy on Amazon The Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World by Nelson, Harold G., Stolterman, Erik (2014) Paperback The MIT Press Buy on Amazon Look Inside: Cutaway Illustrations and Visual Storytelling Gestalten Buy on Amazon Photoviz: Visualizing Information through Photography Gestalten Buy on Amazon The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture By Juhani Pallasmaa Buy on Amazon Graphic: 500 Designs that Matter By Phaidon Editors Buy on Amazon Thinking, Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman Buy on Amazon