Short design books I recommend
A list of every interaction design book (incomplete)
How interfaces change with frequency of use
Why designers don’t talk about interface design
Evidence that designers don’t talk about visual design
What I’ve learned about visual design
Where novel visual styles come from
Natural tensions in interaction and visual design
The best WWDC videos about interface design
A list of every visual design book
A critique of the Linear website
The website visual design hall of fame
The four universal signals of quality
Direction, approach, and iteration
Evidence that quality is impossible at scale
Why quality is impossible at scale
The benefits of software quality
A critique of the Stripe website
Factors of a good interaction and visual designer
Signs that an organisation values interaction and visual design
Questions for a visual design critique
How I define “interface design”
Others’ classification of software design
Ways that software design is different
My definitions of “beauty” and “taste”
Classical and expressive aesthetics
Foundations of the visual design skillset
Types of elements in visual design
The six layers of interaction design
The five purposes of elements in visual design
Levels of visual design inspiration
The eleven interaction design spectrums
The sixteen spectrums that define software “type”
The building blocks of visual design
The eleven types of contrast in visual design
The five purposes of visual design
The thirteen visual design spectrums