The Design of Everyday Things

The Martian - Andy Weir, Las Vegas Parano - Hunter S. Thompson

About Face by Cooper team, finishing Death Cure – James Dashner ^{^}

Smashing Book 5 — Real-Life Responsive Web Design.

https://shop.smashingmagazine.com/products/smashing-book-5-real-life-responsive-web-design

Creativity Inc. by Amy Wallace & Ed. Catmull.

On the face about how things work at Pixar but really about effective management in any kind of creative enterprise. Highly recommend.

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Zero to One

The 4-hour work week.

Started Neuromancer by William Gibson last night. It's my first read through -- I've been catching up on all the classic sci-fi I haven't yet read.

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

Finished this month:

• The Annihilation Score, Charlie Stross — Latest in the Laundry Files series, probably the best since the original. Nice to see Mo's POV for once.
• Cunning Plans, Warren Ellis — Collection of some talks by Ellis. Seen/read most of them before but worth a re-read. His talent for a pithy phrase makes me jealous.
• Just One Damn Thing After Another, Jodi Taylor - Time travelling historians. Soapy fun.
• A Symphony of Echos, Jodi Taylor — Still fun
• A Second Chance, Jodi Taylor — Series reboot via parallel worlds.
• A Trail Through Time, Jodi Taylor - Still entertaining
• No Time Like The Past, Jodi Taylor - More fun

Currently reading:

• Counting Heads by David Marusek — Like Philip K. Dick running on a good day. Huge fun.
• An early draft of a friend's book on survey design

The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero

Outliers: The Story of Success

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I just finished Thoughts on Design by Paul Rand. It's an oldie, but a quick, solid read.

Biography of Albert Einstein

To be honest, since graduating from university I've been terrible at reading design books. I find I get much more of a kick out of reading fiction and non-fiction from different industries. I'm currently making my way through these two:

• The Second Sex — Simone de Beauvoir: Gettin' my feminism history on. Just a hundred pages in, but finding it extremely interesting so far. A lot of the psychoanalysis is fairly outdated (it's from 1949), but I'm surprised by how many of her observations are relevant and relatable even in today's debates around women in tech.

• Ham on Rye — Charlies Bukowski: Could Bukowski be any more different from Beauvoir? I've always been a huge fan of his poetry, so it's about time I get through his novels.

Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse

You're My Favourite Client - Mike Monteiro.

It's so great.

Sometimes his talks/posts grate on me, but this is brilliant; especially from a Designer point of view.

I'm reading three really nice books:

1) Holacracy (As we are contemplating adapting it to the company)

2) Change by Design (Generally a great Design book)

3) The Organised Mind (Really nice dive into how our mind works)

• How We Got to Now — Steven Johnson
• The Innovators — Walter Isaacson

Has anyone considered a book subscription service similar to Netflix? My list of books I'd like to read for graphic & web design is growing on a daily basis. There is no way financially I can purchase that many books. I've considered using https://www.oysterbooks.com/

Design Sprint http://www.designsprintbook.com/

Also:

Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose (Voices That Matter)

Well-Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love

My latest books:

The Martian, Ready Player One, and currently reading Snow Crash

The Princess Bride. I know, I know. Everyone reads this in middle/high school, but I never did. I just watched the movie.

BTW: I'm loving the book just as much if not more than the movie.

The Running Man

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

No One Belongs Here More Than You

A Whack on the Side of the Head - Roger Von Oech

Read a snippet here

The Membership Economy: Find Your Superusers, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue; Design to Grow: How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility; and Small Giants.

Cibola Burn by James S. A. Corey

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Thinking with Type - Ellen Lupton

Just trying to wrap my head around typography better. And this seems to be one of the 101 books.

The Southern Reach Trilogy.

I read Bruno Munari's 'Design as Art' a while ago. Very nice piece. It made a huge effect to my perspective of design.

I also suggest "The Circle" by Dave Eggers. "It chronicles tech worker Mae Holland as she joins a powerful Internet company which starts out as an incredibly rewarding experience, but as she works there longer things start to fall apart."

Recently Read:

• The Martian , Andy Weir
• Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel

Both excellent!

Black Hole by Charles Burns. It's a gloomy comic book about teenage sex and a disease transmitted with it. The art is downright gorgeous in a creepy kinda way.

Some regular comic series which I'm also on this month:

• Saga It's a space opera that rivals any other Sci-Fi epic.
• Black Science A time travel adventure story with bonkers art.
• Sex Criminals This one's about a pair of lovers that can freeze time whenever they have an orgasm. Seriously, It's hilarious.

Anyway, if you're into comic books anything by Image Comics is good.

Currently working on:

• A Manual for Manuel, Julio Cortázar
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
• Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol

Hooked: How to Build Habit-forming Products (http://www.amazon.com/Hooked-How-Build-Habit-Forming-Products-ebook/dp/B00HJ4A43S)

Only a few pages in but I like what I've read so far.

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon

Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb

Too many.

Cryptonomicon, by Neil Stephenson

Calban's War, by James S.A. Corey (Expanse series)

The Martian, by Andy Weir

and re-reading Paul Rand's Thoughts on Design for maybe the fourth time.

Finished "Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook" by Gary Vaynerchuk. Highly recommend for anyone using social media. Started "So you've been publicly shamed" by Jon Ronson. Pretty good so far.

2010: Odyssey Two by Aurthur C. Clarke

It's the second in a series of four books, and I've loved the first two so far, so I'll definitely be finishing the series.

The Martian

http://www.amazon.com/The-Martian-Novel-Andy-Weir-ebook/dp/B00EMXBDMA

• The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi - Highly recommend
• Fables Vol. 22 - So sad it's done, but great ending.
• Armada by Ernest Cline - Just started

Plato and a platypus walk into a bar

Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

Less than halfway through it and it's already an all-time favorite. Recommended for contemplative travelers and those who yearn for simple satisfaction, and a good dose of understated humor :)

Proust was a neuroscientist

Listening to the audiobook of "The Martian" by Andy Weir. Damn fantastic!

The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? - Seth Godin

Evil by design

Licklider - Libraries of the future

Some John Dewey up after that.

Kenya Hara is my absolute favuorite, you should try reading Designing design if you've not already done so.

Currently going through The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg and Siddhartha

Memories, Dreams, Reflections - C.G. Jung

Titus Livius "Ad Urbe Condita". I have read the 3/4 of the whole series. Amazing as always.

The Small BIG: Small Changes that Spark Big Influence

It contains insights into studies which you might be able to use to help influence a user's behavior on your website / application.

http://www.thesmallbig.com/

forgot to paste my link ;) shiro (means white in japanese) http://www.amazon.com/White-Kenya-Hara/dp/3037781831

Currently reading "Triton of the Sea" by Osamu Tezuka. Not my favorite of his, but I want to read everything by him.

Also, "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson. Super good!

Almost done with both.