Design Style And Creativity Book List

Design, Style and Creativity Books (part of Wiki BookList)

Software Design (Interfaces and Architecture)

• AboutFace, AlanCooper
• BringingDesignToSoftware edited by Terry Winograd presents some good discussions about how we software professionals should pay attention to ideas from other disciplines of design.
• UsabilityEngineering, JakobNielsen
• DesigningVisualInterfaces, KevinMullet? and DarrellSano?
• TheTroubleWithComputers, ThomasLandauer?
• BeyondProgramming, Bruce I. Blum
• DesigningInformationSystems in the Postmodern Age, Richard Coyne
• ProgrammingAsIfPeopleMattered, NathanielBorenstein?
• TheFrozenKeyboard, BorisBeizer
• TheCrcCardBook, David Bellin, and Susan Suchman Simone

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Interactivity

• InteractiveExcellence, Edwin Schlossberg

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The Essence of Communication (Formerly: Hints & Style)

• LiterateProgramming, by DonaldKnuth
• The ElementsOfProgrammingStyle, BrianKernighan & PjPlauger
• The ElementsOfFriendlySoftwareDesign?, PaulHeckel?.
• TheVisualDisplayOfQuantitativeInformation, EdwardTufte
• EnvisioningInformation, EdwardTufte
• VisualExplanations, EdwardTufte
• ProgrammingPearls, JonBentley
• MacIsNotTypewriter, RobinWilliams
• ThinkingForth, LeoBrodie
• DynamicsInDocumentDesign, KarenSchriver?
• Want to improve your writing skills? Try:
  • RevisingBusinessProse by Richard Lanham, Macmillan, 1992
  • BugsInWriting by Lyn Dupre
  • TheElementsOfStyle, by Strunk and White
  • Style, Joseph Williams
  • WoeIsi: Woe Is I, Patricia T. O'Conner, ISBN 1573226254
  • WritingBroadside, a chapter in PatternsOfSoftware
• SmalltalkWithStyle?, SuzanneSkublics?, reviewed off-site[1]
• UnderstandingComics, Scott McCloud?: Wonderful comic book about understanding comics (and visual communication in general!)
• EffectivePerlProgramming, Hall and Schwartz

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Creativity & Learning

• TurtlesTermitesAndTrafficJams, Mitchel Resnick
• A WhackOnTheSideOfTheHead, by RogerVonOech?.
• CreativityAsAnExactScience?, G. S. Altshuller
• ConceptualBlockbusting?, James L. Adams
• The MythicalManMonth, FredBrooks
• NoMoreTeams, Michael Schrage
• The OriginOfConsciousness ..., JulianJaynes
• ThePassionOfTheWesternMind, RichardTarnas?
• ThePracticalCogitator
• MetaphorsWeLiveBy, LakoffAndJohnson
• TheBookOfThink, Marilyn Burns
• FluidConceptsAndCreativeAnalogies[2], DouglasHofstadter
• Lessons from TheArtOfJuggling, MichaelGelb? and TonyBuzan. A book about learning, thinly disguised as a book about learning to juggle.
• A MindMap Book, one of TonyBuzan's many books on mind mapping
• HowToSolveIt, G. Polya on Problem Solving and Teaching Mathematics
• MetaphorAndOrganizations, ed. David Grant and Cliff Oswick
• OutdoorGamesForTrainers, Carmine M. Consalvo
• TwoHundredAndOneIceBreakers, Edie West
• SoftwareCreativity, Robert L. Glass
• GiftsDiffering, Isabel Briggs Myers
• CreativityAndInnovation, Daniel L. Couger
• CalderAtHome, Pedro E. Guerrero
• Situated Learning: LegitimatePeripheralParticipation, Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger

General Design Books

• WabiSabi
• The PsychologyOfEverydayThings, by DonaldNorman
• ... the usual ChristopherAlexander books...

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