Books like White space is not your enemy by Kim Golombisky

Steve Krug’s practical guide distills usability expertise into clear principles for creating intuitive, user-friendly web sites that keep visitors coming back.

A comprehensive guide to graphic design and typography, offering practical advice and design techniques for students and designers alike.

Creative Confidence shows how every person can unlock and apply their creative potential in business and everyday life, using insights and examples from IDEO’s design practice.

A practical handbook showcasing 1,000 thoughtfully designed type treatments and the fonts that created them.

The Elements of Graphic Design, Second Edition, presents a refreshed, color‑rich exploration of typography, layout and visual hierarchy, featuring over 750 images and new content on web design, modularity and motion.

"Here is a complete, comprehensive drawing reference for design students and professionals alike who want to implement drawing as a professional tool. In Drawing for Graphic Design, Timothy Samara empowers readers to add drawing to their design vocabulary, featuring case studies of commercial projects from start to finish along with a showcase of real-world projects that integrate drawing as an intrinsic part of their visual communication. Filled with original author drawings and sketches, it's a must-have reference that will benefit designers of all levels"--

An accessible guide to the intricacies of interactive web design, outlining user experience processes, methods, and terminology for readers without a design background.

A concise guide to visual communication in digital design, illustrating how balanced use of line, shape, color, and typography engages viewers and delivers clear messages.

Graphic Design School offers a comprehensive, practice‑oriented overview of design fundamentals—from composition and typography to colour and layout—paired with studio techniques and career guidance for aspiring graphic designers.

"A revised new edition of the bestselling toolkit for creating, building, and maintaining a strong brand. From research and analysis through brand strategy, design development through application design, and identity standards through launch and governance, Designing Brand Identity, Fourth Edition offers brand managers, marketers, and designers a proven, universal five-phase process for creating and implementing effective brand identity. Enriched by new case studies showcasing successful world-class brands, this Fourth Edition brings readers up to date with a detailed look at the latest trends in branding, including social networks, mobile devices, global markets, apps, video, and virtual brands. Features more than 30 all-new case studies showing best practices. Updated to include more than 35 percent new material. Offers a proven, universal five-phase process and methodology for creating and implementing effective brand identity"--

An accessible guide that turns the design of web pages, brochures and other visual media into a clear, practical process for beginners.

For designers working in every medium, layout is arguably the most basic, and most important, element. Effective layout is essential to communication and enables the end user to not only be drawn in with an innovative design but to digest information easily. Making and Breaking the Grid is a comprehensive layout design workshop that assumes that in order to effectively break the rules of grid-based design, one must first understand those rules and see them applied to real-world projects. Basics include composing typographic space, format determination, and sequencing and systemization. Various types of grids a manuscript, column, modular, hierarchical a are also covered. Text reveals top designers' work in process and rationale. Projects with similar characteristics are linked through a simple notational system that encourages exploration and comparison of structure ideas. Each project is shown comprehensively so readers can see its structure revealed over several pages, at a size that allows for inspection of detail. Also included are historical overviews that summarize the development of layout concepts, both grid-based and non-grid based, in modern design practice.