This reading list is based on recommended reading from a design class at Stanford — The History and Theory of Design. Main category: Design in Business, Contemporary Design, Design History, Sub-fields of Design History and Design Theory and Methods.
Design in Business
- Change by Design | Tim Brown
2. Make it New: The History and Theory of Silicon Valley Design | Barry Katz
3. The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage | Roger Martin
4. The Opposable Mind: How successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking | Roger Martin
5. Design Thinking: Integrating Innovation, Customer Experience, and Brand Value | Thomas Lockwood
6. Rise of the DEO: Leadership by Design | Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland
7. The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm | Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman
8. Designing for People | Henry Dreyfuss
9. Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change | Victor Papanek
10. The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture | Victor Papanek
11. The Design of Everyday Things | Donald Norman
12. Living with Complexity | Donald Norman
13. Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things | Donald Norman
14. Women Designers in the USA, 1900–2000: Diversity and Difference | Pat Kirkham
15. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things | William McDonough and Michael Braungart
16. Where Stuff Comes From: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers and Many Other Things Come to Be As They Are | Harvey Molotch
Design History
17. Design: The Whole Story | Elizabeth Wilhide
18. The Story of Design: From the Paleolithic to the Present
19. Theory and Design in the First Machine Age | Reyner Banham
20. Twentieth Century Limited: Industrial Design in America, 1925–1939 | Jeffrey Meikle
21. History of Modern Design | David Raizman
22. An Introduction to Design and Culture: 1900 to the Present | Penny Sparke
23. Twentieth-Century Design | Jonathan Woodham
Sub-fields of Design History
24. A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals | Spiro Kostof, Gregory Castillo
25. A History of Graphic Design | Philip Meggs, Alston Purvis
26. A History of Interior Design | John Pile, Judith Gura
27. Tigersprung: Fashion in Modernity | Ulrich Lehmann
28. Designing Interactions | Bill Moggridge
Design Theory and Methods
29. Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work | Nigel Cross
30. Designerly Ways of Knowing | Nigel Cross
31. 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People | Susan Weinschenk
32. Universal Principles of Design: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design | William Lidwell, Kritina Holden
33. The Meanings of Modern Design: Towards the Twenty-First Century | Peter Dormer
34. 101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization | Vijay Kumar
35. The Culture of Design | Guy Julier
36. Objects of Desire: Design and Society Since 1750 | Adrian Forty
37. The Philosophy of Design | Glenn Parsons
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