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Books like Design Is a Job
A tough-love, profanity-laced pep talk that transforms creative anxiety into professional armor. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Design Is a Job.
- empowering
- energizing
- no-nonsense
- 01
Don't Make Me Think
Steve Krug
A breezy, common-sense masterclass in how to stop frustrating the people who use your creations.
- 02
The user experience team of one
Leah Buley
A pragmatic, empowering toolkit for championing user-centered design when you are the only one doing the heavy lifting.
- 03
Side hustle
Chris Guillebeau
An energizing, step-by-step roadmap that turns the daunting prospect of entrepreneurship into an accessible, low-stakes adventure.
- 04
Designing For Emotion
Aarron Walter
A warm, practical manifesto for injecting humanity and delight into the cold spaces of the digital world.
- 05
Judge This
Chip Kidd
A witty, fast-paced tour through the hidden visual language of our everyday lives.
- 06
100 things every designer needs to know about people
Susan Weinschenk
A brisk, bite-sized masterclass in the psychological quirks that drive human behavior and interaction.
- 07
HTML5 For Web Designers
Jeremy Keith
A breezy, charmingly pragmatic guide that turns a daunting technical specification into an afternoon of lightbulb moments.
- 08
Cracking the PM Interview
Gayle Laakmann McDowell
A tactical, demystifying playbook that transforms the anxiety of the tech hiring process into a series of conquerable frameworks.
- 09
It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
A cool glass of water for the burnt-out professional soul, offering permission to simply do less and do it better.
- 10
Information is Beautiful
David McCandless
A visually stunning antidote to information overload that transforms complex data into beautiful, digestible art.
- 11
Technically Wrong
Sara Wachter-Boettcher
A sharp, validating wake-up call that pulls back the curtain on the biases baked into our everyday digital lives.
- 12
Designing with web standards
Jeffrey Zeldman
A witty, passionate manifesto that transforms dry technical standards into an empowering philosophy for building a better web.
