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The Design Of Everyday Things

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author: Donald Norman
asin: 0385267746
binding: Paperback
list price: $15.95 USD
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The Cognitive Style Of Powerpoint

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author: Edward R. Tufte
asin: 0961392150
binding: Paperback
list price: $7.00 USD
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No silver bullet fixes here though - this is a think piece. Challenges you. Makes you think. Refreshing. Anything written by Tufte is worth reading.

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Visual Explanations

cover of Visual ExplanationsVisual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

author: Edward R. Tufte
asin: 0961392126
binding: Hardcover
list price: $45.00 USD
amazon price: $32.40 USD


The third book in a series on information display. Deals with information that changes over time. Anything written by Tufte is worth reading.

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The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information

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author: Edward R. Tufte
asin: 096139210X
binding: Hardcover
list price: $40.00 USD
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The book for anyone involved in showing numerical data graphically. Anything written by Tufte is worth reading.

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Envisioning Information

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author: Edward R. Tufte
asin: 0961392118
binding: Hardcover
list price: $48.00 USD
amazon price: $34.56 USD


One of the most beautiful and stunning books I have ever read. Expensive, but worth several times the price. It has directly influenced me in several ways. It forever changed the way I go about communication and presenting tabular data. This book was the direct influence for the FDD processes and the template (layout) they use - which have received acclaim from many people worldwide (even those that are not fans of FDD are fans of the process templates). Anything written by Tufte is worth owning.

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Design, Form, and Chaos

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author: Mr. Paul Rand
asin: 0300055536
binding: Hardcover
list price: $60.00 USD
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Beautiful. Inspirational. One of the world's great designers.

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The Form Of The Book

cover of The Form Of The BookThe Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design (Classic Typography Series)

author: Jan Tschichold
Hajo Hadeler
asin: 0881791164
binding: Paperback
list price: $19.95 USD
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Beautiful. I consider it very important and it (and New Typography) has had a great influence on me.

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The New Typography

cover of The New TypographyThe New Typography (Weimar and Now : German Cultural Criticism)

author: Jan Tschichold
asin: 0520071468
binding: Hardcover
list price: $65.00 USD
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Beautiful. I consider it very important and it (and The Form Of The Book) has had a great influence on me.

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Machine Beauty

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author: David Gelernter
asin: 0465045162
binding: Hardcover
list price: $21.00 USD
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The good part of this book is a short section on Linda, tuple space and Lifestreams. It's recommended for that only. These ideas are still be to fully realized - we're only scratching the surface (in the mainstream) of breaking the ridiculous hierarchical file system of desktop PCs with brilliant first steps such as OS X's fully integrated Spotlight feature. The time ordered representations and categorizations talked about here are yet to come (in the mainstream and fully OS integrated as they need to be). I can't wait...

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How Buildings Learn

cover of How Buildings LearnHow Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

author: Stewart Brand
asin: 0140139966
binding: Paperback
list price: $30.00 USD
amazon price: $19.80 USD


A stunning book on design and entropy. Yes - it really is about buildings but there is much we can learn - it's "what happens after they're built."

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