'''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 ----------- '''Interactivity''' * InteractiveExcellence, Edwin Schlossberg ----------- '''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 -------------------- '''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... ---- [CategoryCreativity | CategoryBooks]