Resources

Paul Rand — Thoughts on Design (1947)
Johannes Itten — The Art of Color (1961)
Josef Albers — Interaction of Color (1963)
Bruno Munari — Design as Art (1966)
Victor Papanek — Design for the Real World (1971)
Josef Müller-Brockmann — Grid Systems in Graphic Design (1981)
Edward Tufte — The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983)
Philip B. Meggs — Meggs' History of Graphic Design (1983)
Frank Whitford — The Bauhaus: Weimar Dessau Berlin (1984)
Edward Tufte — Envisioning Information (1990)
Robert Bringhurst — The Elements of Typographic Style (1992)
Wucius Wong — Principles of Form and Design (1993)
Dieter Rams — Ten Principles for Good Design (1995)
Ellen Lupton — Thinking with Type (2004)
John Maeda — The Laws of Simplicity (2006)
Stephen Few — Information Dashboard Design (2006)
Tim Brown — Change by Design (2009)
William Lidwell et al. — Universal Principles of Design (2010)
Luke Wroblewski — Mobile First (2011)
Marc Stickdorn — Service Design Thinking (2012)
Elizabeth Goodman — Observing the User Experience (2012)
Jeff Sauro, James Lewis — Measuring the User Experience (Sauro & Lewis) (2012)
Don Norman — The Design of Everyday Things (2013)
Tullis & Albert — Measuring the User Experience (Tullis & Albert) (2013)
Tom Kelley — Creative Confidence (2013)
Dan Saffer — Microinteractions (2013)
Brad Stone — The Everything Store (2013)
Alistair Croll — Lean Analytics (2013)
Harry Brignull — Dark Patterns (2013)
Steve Krug — Don't Make Me Think (2014)
Alan Cooper — About Face: Interaction Design Essentials (2014)
Caroline Jarrett — Designing Forms That People Love (2014)
Jason Santa Maria — Web Typography (2014)
Dan Olsen — The Lean Product Playbook (2015)
Rosenfeld & Morville — Information Architecture for the Web (2015)
Jens Müller — Logo Modernism (2015)
Brad Frost — Atomic Design (2016)
Peter Merholz — Org Design for Design Orgs (2016)
Jake Knapp — Sprint (2016)
Parker, Van Alstyne, Choudary — Platform Revolution (2016)
Alla Kholmatova — Design Systems (2017)
Amir Shevat — Designing Bots (2017)
Sarah Richards — Content Design (2017)
Marty Cagan — Inspired (2018)
Stickdorn et al. — This is Service Design Doing (2018)
Various — Design Leadership Handbook (2019)
Stuart Russell — Human Compatible (2019)
Mike Monteiro — Design Career Guide (2019)
Julie Zhuo — The Making of a Manager (2019)
Marty Cagan — Empowered (2020)
Jenifer Tidwell — Designing Interfaces (2020)
InVision — Design Ops Handbook (2020)
Various — Design Futures (2020)
Jeff Gothelf — Lean UX (2021)
Jaime Levy — UX Strategy (2021)
Teresa Torres — Continuous Discovery Habits (2021)
Google — Material Design (2021)
Tom Taulli — Artificial Intelligence Basics (2021)
Various — Design Engineering Handbook (2022)
Airbnb — Airbnb Design Blog (2022)
Apple — Human Interface Guidelines (2023)
Nathan Shipley — AI for Designers (2023)
MIT Media Lab — MIT Media Lab – Fluid Interfaces Group (overview) (2026)
MIT OpenCourseWare — MIT OpenCourseWare – User Interface Design & Implementation (6.813) (2026)
Stanford d.school — Stanford d.school – Design Thinking Resources (2026)
Stanford University — Stanford HCI Group – Publications (2026)
Harvard GSD — Harvard Graduate School of Design – Research (2026)
Carnegie Mellon University — Carnegie Mellon HCII – Research (2026)
Don Norman — JND – The Design of Everyday Things (resources) (2026)
Nielsen Norman Group — Nielsen Norman Group – UX Research Reports (2026)
International Organization for Standardization — ISO 9241-210 – Human-centred design for interactive systems (2026)
Interaction Design Foundation — Interaction Design Foundation – UX Literature (2026)
Interaction Design Foundation — Interaction Design Foundation – Gestalt Principles (Law of Proximity) (2026)
University of Maryland — University of Maryland HCIL – Publications (2026)
MIT Press — MIT Press – Design Topic Publications (2026)
AIGA — AIGA – Resources (2026)
Google Research — Google Research – UX Publications (2026)
IBM — IBM Design Thinking (2026)
Apple — Apple Human Interface Guidelines (web) (2026)
Nielsen Norman Group — Nielsen Norman Group – 10 Usability Heuristics (2026)
UK Government Digital Service — GOV.UK Design System (2026)
U.S. General Services Administration — U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) (2026)