An Event Apart: Book List

There were tons of great book recommendations by the speakers. I’m going to put them here so I don’t forget them.

(Update: Day 2 books added.)

(Update to the update: I’ve added a couple of more books I forgot about. I also reorganized this post, because it was silly and made no sense.)

Book List From “An Event Apart”
(alpha by author)

• The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, by Jason Beaird
• Elements of Typographic Style, by Robert Bringhurst
• Concrete, by Paul Chadwick
• Designing The Obvious, by Robert Hoekman, Jr.
• Designing the Moment, by Robert Hoekman, Jr.
• The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson
• How Designers Think, by Bryan Lawson
• The Universal Principles of Design, by William Lidwell, et al.
• Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
• Designing for Interaction, by Dan Saffer
• The Zen of CSS Design, by Dave Shea & Molly Holzschlag
• Building Findable Web Sites, by Aarron Walter
• Mental Models, by Indi Young