The Non-Designer's Design Book
Robin Williams Wrote this one "for all the people who now need to design pages, but who have no background or formal training in design". Follow the basic principles clearly explained in this book and your work is guaranteed to look more professional, organized, unified, and interesting. You'll never again look at a page in the same way. Full of practical design exercises and quizzes. Runner-up for Best Introductory Systems How-to Book in the 10th Annual Computer Press Awards.
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- I am a longtime developer but I'm passionate about design and UX. I'm always on the lookout for materials that I can give my team and other developers to help them get better at design. It's not a course, but "The Non-Designer's Design Book" (ISBN 978-0133966152, Robin Williams) is the best material for design fundamentals I've found. It's very approachable for anyone and it's broadly applicable across all kinds of design. Everyone I have convinced to read it has loved it, and I've seen an improvement in output and understanding. I highly recommend this if you have an interest in design.
Refactoring UI is also valuable and can be impactful, though it's heavily web focused and is more like a Web Component Design Cookbook rather than foundational knowledge.
- FWIW, I can recommend The Non-Designer's Design Book, by Robin Williams.
It’s short and to the point with practical lessons about things like layout, contrast, etc.
https://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-4th/dp/0133...
- I really like:
Non Designer's Design Book - for higher level guidelines on design
Refactoring UI - for tactical suggestions on UIs
Some other books: Bootstrapping Design and Design for Hackers
- I can recommend The Non-Designer's Design Book, by Robin Williams, as a great way to dip a toe into the world of design. It won't make you a designer, but it will help you fake it a bit when you don't have one. I found the suggestions surprisingly effective in my own work.
- this book: the non-designer's design book by robin williams.
this is on my list of best books about particular topics. this one is about design in general. i still remember the acronym the author came up with after all these years. parc for: proximity, alignment, r..., contrast. okay i lied, i don't remember what r stands for anymore haha :)
everything you see and like about good design have to do with these 4 terms. the web is no different.
- The Non-Designer's Design Book is the best resource I know of for learning general design guidelines, which apply to what you're asking. I've bought this book for many developers and they've all loved it.
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