Books like Visual thinking for design by Colin Ware

A definitive guide to designing clear, precise, and effective statistical graphics, covering theory, practical techniques, and visual integrity.

Edward R. Tufte explores how best to communicate real‑life experience in two dimensions, whether on paper or screen, blending design, visual perception, and statistics.

An engaging guide to the principles of user experience design, blending practice and scientific research.

“What’s going on in this picture?” With this one question and a carefully chosen work of art, teachers can start their students down a path toward deeper learning and other skills now encouraged by the Common Core State Standards. The Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) teaching method has been successfully implemented in schools, districts, and cultural institutions nationwide, including bilingual schools in California, West Orange Public Schools in New Jersey, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It provides for open-ended yet highly structured discussions of visual art, and significantly increases students’ critical thinking, language, and literacy skills along the way. Philip Yenawine, former education director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and cocreator of the VTS curriculum, writes engagingly about his years of experience with elementary school students in the classroom. He reveals how VTS was developed and demonstrates how teachers are using art—as well as poems, primary documents, and other visual artifacts—to increase a variety of skills, including writing, listening, and speaking, across a range of subjects. The book shows how VTS can be easily and effectively integrated into elementary classroom lessons in just ten hours of a school year to create learner-centered environments where students at all levels are involved in rich, absorbing discussions.

In the course of the next five years, the computer will be in every design professional's studio and in every design classroom, and it will be the primary tool for all those now entering the field. Visual Design on the Computer is the first book expressly designed for those who are seeking to learn design on the computer. It approaches design from the computer perspective, and introduces a new visual language to tackle all basic design principles. The book does not promote any particular computer system or software. Special features include guiding the self-learner to learn visual design on the computer in 15 sessions; helping the teacher to plan his/her own design course using the computer; providing innumerable ideas and tips to seasoned designers; explaining techniques and methods commonly used in computer graphics; covering draw and paint programs, as well as scanning, image-editing, and printing; and demonstrating available options with over 1,000 diagrams and examples.