A growing collection of books that have shaped
how I think, design, and see the world.

Universal Methods of Design by Bruce Hanington and Bella Martin

Meaningful Stuff: Design That Lasts by Jonathan Chapman

The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

The Reflective Practitioner by Donald A. Schon

Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek

Less but better by Dieter Rams

How to Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul by Adrian

Shaughnessy

The New Designer: Rejecting Myths, Embracing Change by Manuel Lima

Speculative Everything: Design Fiction and Social Dreaming by Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby

Design Aesthetics: Theoretical Basics and Studies in Implication by Mads Nygaard Folkman

The Aesthetics of Imagination in Design by Mads Nygaard Folkman

Living with Complexity by Donald A. Norman

Broken: Mending and Repair in a Throwaway World by Kabe Treggiden

Design Things by Thomas Binder, Giorgio De Michelis, Pelle Ehn, Giulio Jacucci, Per Linde & Ina Wagner

Design by Accident: For a New History of Design by Alexandra Midal

Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Independence, Autonomy & the Making of Worlds by Arturo Escobar

Spooky Technology by Daragh Byrne

Emotional Design by Don Norman

Critical Fabulations: Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design by Daniela K. Rosner

Making Design Theory by Johan Redstrom

Designing the X by
Dennis Frenchman

The Craft of Research by

Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, & Wayne C. Booth

Biodesign: Nature + Science + Creativity by William Myers

The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert A. Simon

Defuturing: A New Design Philosophy by Tony Fry

Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell

Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef

Müller-Brockmann

Design by Use: The Everyday Metamorphosis of Things by Uta Brandes

The Design of Everyday Things by Elizabeth Shove, Matthew Watson, Martin Hand & Jack Ingram

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud

Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton

Design and the Question of History by Tony Fry

Things That Talk by Lorraine Daston

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by Michael Braungart &

William McDonough

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine Benyus

AI Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh

Jugaad Innovation by Jaideep Prabhu

Real World Research by Colin Robinson

Are we human? Notes of Archaeology of Design by Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley

What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy

Navigating Ambiguity: Creating Opportunity in a World of Unknowns by Andrea Small & Kelly Schmutte

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Change by Design by Tim Brown

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Designing with the Body: Somaesthetic Interaction Design by Kristina Hook

The Craftsman by Richard Sennet

Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows

The Space between Look and Read by Susan M. Hagan

Design, Empathy, Interpretation by Ilpo Koskinen

Metaphors We Live by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

UX Metrics and ROI by Nielsen Norman Group

Generative Design: Visualize, Program, and Create with JavaScript in p5.js by Benedikt Gross

The Little Book of Design Research Ethics by IDEO

The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture by Victor Papanek

Design Struggles: Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies, and Perspectives by Claudia Mareis, Nina Paim

Just Enough Research by Erika Hall

Designing Experiences by J. Rossman and Mathew D. Duerden

This is Service Design Doing

Hooked by Nir Eyal

Convivial Toolbox by Liz Sander

Typography (Graphic Design in Context) by Denise G. Crisp

Effective Data Storytelling by Brent Dykes

Sprint by Jake Knapp