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The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
4.15 average rating, · 48.5k ratings
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Thinking In Systems: A Primer
Donella H. Meadows
4.18 average rating, · 24k ratings
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
William McDonough
4.09 average rating, · 12.6k ratings
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward R. Tufte
4.39 average rating, · 8.8k ratings
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Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
4.38 average rating, · 8.5k ratings
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Envisioning Information
Edward R. Tufte
4.23 average rating, · 8k ratings
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Art Forms in Nature
Olaf Breidbach
4.13 average rating, · 7.7k ratings
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Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
J.E. Gordon
4.14 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
Rudolf Arnheim
4.07 average rating, · 4k ratings
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Information is Beautiful
David McCandless
4.12 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Edward R. Tufte
4.29 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
Cliff Kuang
4.13 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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The Elements of Color: A Treatise on the Color System of Johannes Itten Based on His Book the Art of Color
Johannes Itten
4.19 average rating, · 3k ratings
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Unflattening
Nick Sousanis
4.06 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life
Amy E. Herman
4.10 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
Sara Wachter-Boettcher
4.07 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
Janine M. Benyus
4.01 average rating, · 2.6k ratings
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Beautiful Evidence
Edward R. Tufte
4.15 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Just Enough Research
Erika Hall
4.19 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
Kevin Ashton
4.01 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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Cromorama. Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo
Riccardo Falcinelli
4.46 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
R. Buckminster Fuller
4.05 average rating, · 2k ratings
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The World According to Color: A Cultural History
James Fox
4.27 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
Natasha Dow Schüll
4.19 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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