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The Best Graphic Design Books to Buy

Inkbot Design

100 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers: Insider Secrets on Working Smart and Staying Creative. This book contains quotes from noteworthy designers, both past and present, working in fields ranging from graphic design, fashion, architecture, typography, and industrial design. −$35.05. Buy on Amazon.

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Dot Dot Dot Is the Most Influential Design Magazine You’ve Never Heard Of

Eye on Design

asked the cover of the first issue of Dot Dot Dot , published in April 2000. And so begins this new magazine founded by graphic designers Peter Bil’ak, Stuart Bertollotti-Bailey, and Jürgen X. Certainly, if you were a particular type of designer in the early 2000s, Dot Dot Dot was the most exciting publication you could find.

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This is why I don’t call myself a service designer any more

UX Collective

The road to design maturity gets longer The inflation of design as a profession and why I no longer call myself a service designer Photo is by Jan Huber from Unsplash I love doing service design.

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Don Norman and the Emotional Side of Design

Inkbot Design

” Sale Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things Norman, Don A. Author) English (Publication Language) 272 Pages – 05/11/2005 (Publication Date) – Basic Books (Publisher) −$6.10 $11.89 Buy on Amazon Why Does Emotional Design Matter?

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40 Best Creative Podcasts To Liven Up Your Day

Shillington

In his 2015 book, Design Your Life, Vince Frost laid out his central idea that design thinking can apply to everything from business to life. Design Matters. In 2005, Debbie Millman started a radio show, Design Matters, which became the first-ever of the design and creative podcasts. Listen here.

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The 25 Most Famous Graphic Designers of All Time

Inkbot Design

1 Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design Hardcover Book Jennifer Bass (Author) English (Publication Language) 428 Pages – 11/09/2011 (Publication Date) – Laurence King Publishing (Publisher) −$37.49 $47.51 Abrams (Publisher) −$20.00 $25.00 Silver Associates (Publisher) $74.25

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The waves of research practice

UX Collective

Ten years later, Nielsen & Norman would publish Usability Engineering (1993) , and a year after that, the first edition of Handbook of Usability Testing (1994) would help to drive the work into clearer and better-understood practices. Buchanan) of design than industrial design. Interaction was a “higher order” (cf.