The DesignMunk Library
Design books worth keeping
From UX fundamentals to design systems — a hand-picked shelf for working designers.
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Show Your Work!
Ten ways to share your creativity, build an audience, and get discovered.
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The Making of a Manager
Julie Zhuo’s honest, practical field guide to becoming a great first-time manager.
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Discussing Design
How to give and receive productive design critique and build a culture of feedback.
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Org Design for Design Orgs
How to build and lead in-house design teams that thrive inside organizations.
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You’re My Favorite Client
Mike Monteiro on how clients and designers can work together to get great work made.
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Ruined by Design
Mike Monteiro’s provocative call for designers to take responsibility for what they make.
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Designing Interface Animation
How motion improves usability and brings interfaces to life, with practical guidance.
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A Web for Everyone
Designing accessible user experiences that work for people of all abilities.
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Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design
Kat Holmes on how designing for exclusion, and against it, shapes who gets to participate.
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The Functional Art
An introduction to information graphics and visualization for communication.
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Storytelling with Data
A practical guide to communicating clearly and persuasively with data visualizations.
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Show Your Work!
Ten ways to share your creativity, build an audience, and get discovered.
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Envisioning Information
Tufte on escaping flatland and displaying rich, multidimensional information clearly.
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward Tufte’s landmark on the theory and practice of data graphics.
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The Making of a Manager
Julie Zhuo’s honest, practical field guide to becoming a great first-time manager.
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Designing for Performance
A freely-readable guide to building fast websites and weighing performance trade-offs.
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Discussing Design
How to give and receive productive design critique and build a culture of feedback.
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Web Style Guide
A foundational, freely-readable guide to designing and building usable websites.
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