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Learn design
These books, articles, and people helped open up my mind about design as I was starting out. You will find them helpful. But most importantly, understand that design is not creativity. Your job is to come up with the best solution to a problem, not the most creative one.
Start here
Hack Design is a really well curated course for designers. (Some of the links might be broken, but it still offers a good list of topics to cover)
Books
- Design Is a Job
- Design for Hackers
- Steal Like an Artist
- Microinteractions: Designing with Details
- Inspired
- Just enough research
Visual Design
- Rules of Thumb for Visual Design
- The Elements of Typographic Style
- Thinking With Type
- Design is still anout words
- On Web Typography — A talk on web typography
- Squint Test of Visual Hierarchy
Videos and Articles
- This is the golden age of design! …and we’re screwed
- Japan’s unusual way to view the world
- Helvetica — A Documentary
Follow blogs on design
Other areas to develop
- How to understand business and organizational goals
- How to run an inclusive design process
- How to build a good argument
- How to present your work
- How to measure the effectiveness of your work
- How to test the impact of a product
- How to be fearless