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The Best Graphic Design Books to Buy

Inkbot Design

100 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers: Insider Secrets on Working Smart and Staying Creative. This book contains quotes from noteworthy designers, both past and present, working in fields ranging from graphic design, fashion, architecture, typography, and industrial design. −$35.05. Buy on Amazon.

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This is why I don’t call myself a service designer any more

UX Collective

The road to design maturity gets longer The inflation of design as a profession and why I no longer call myself a service designer Photo is by Jan Huber from Unsplash I love doing service design.

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40 Best Creative Podcasts To Liven Up Your Day

Shillington

In his 2015 book, Design Your Life, Vince Frost laid out his central idea that design thinking can apply to everything from business to life. Design Matters. In 2005, Debbie Millman started a radio show, Design Matters, which became the first-ever of the design and creative podcasts. Listen here.

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Smile Plastics Turns Yogurt Pots Into Terrazzo-Like Surface Panels

Design Milk

Adam has been a designer since his childhood in mid-Wales, when he would make things from the natural materials he found around him, whereas I came to it later, having first trained as a psychologist at UCL and Goldsmiths.

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Don Norman and the Emotional Side of Design

Inkbot Design

” Sale Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things Norman, Don A. Author) English (Publication Language) 272 Pages – 05/11/2005 (Publication Date) – Basic Books (Publisher) −$6.10 $11.89 Buy on Amazon Why Does Emotional Design Matter?

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Dot Dot Dot Is the Most Influential Design Magazine You’ve Never Heard Of

Eye on Design

This rigorous meta-analysis immediately inserted Dot Dot Dot into the lineage of design journalism and set the tone for its entire run of 20 issues which were released biannually from 2000 to 2010. Certainly, if you were a particular type of designer in the early 2000s, Dot Dot Dot was the most exciting publication you could find.

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Reflections of a product designer

UX Collective

Having been doing design for a while, I’ve gained a lot of peripheral knowledge about different industries, design team structures, how design solves problems across different types of companies and products. I’ve gotten burned out hard 2 times since I truly started my first “real tech job” in 2005. and Three.js