What I’m reading
To do
Design Research (Brenda Laurel, 2003)
Pioneers of Modern Design (Nikolaus Pevsner, 1936)
Biomimicry (Janine Benyus, 1997)
Talking to humans (Giff Constable, 2014)
Designing interactions (Bill Moggridge, 2007)
Mechanical Design in Organisms (Wainwright, 1976)
Cracking the Whip (Ralph Caplan, 2006)
Living with complexity (Bill Norman, 2011)
Design, When Everybody Designs (Ezio Manzini, 2015)
After the Seventh Day (Ritchie Calder, 1961)
The meaning of things (Eugene Halton, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, 1981)
In the bubble (John Thackara, 2006)
The E myth revisited (Michael E. Gerber, 1986)
Complex Product Development Model (Christer Sandahl, 2017)
Against the Odds (James Dyson, 1997)
In progress
Design this day (Walter Dorwin Teague, 1940)
Done
The Art of Action (Stephen Bungay, 2010)
Build (Tony Fadell, 2022)
Escaping the Build Trap (Melissa Perri, 2018)
The Four Steps to the Epiphany (Steve Blank, 2005)
My Years with General Motors (Alfred P. Sloan Jr., 1963)
Sustainability: A History (Jeremy L. Caradonna, 2014)
User Friendly (Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant, 2019)
Product Management in Practice (Matt LeMay, 2022)
The Innovator's Dilemma (Clayton M. Christensen, 2000)
The Upcycle (William McDonough, Michael Braungart, 2013)
The Design of Future Things (Donald A. Norman, 2007)
Change by Design (Tim Brown, 2009)
A Fine Line (Hartmut Esslinger, 2009)
Gastone Rinaldi (Giuseppe Drago, Jacopo Drago, 2015)
Industrial Design (Raymond Loewy, 1979)
Jony Ive (Leander Kahney, 2013)
How things don't work (Victor Papanek, 1977)
Nomadic Furniture (James Hennessey, Victor Papanek, 1973)
Bruno Munari (Aldo Tanchis, 1987)
The mind of the strategist (Kenichi Ohmae, 1982)
The design of everyday things (Don Norman, 1988)
Everyday engineering (Dominique Vinck 2003)
Designing engineers (Louis L. Bucciarelli, 1994)
On line and on paper (Kathryn Henderson, 1999)
Logic and design (Krome Barratt, 1980)
Universal principles of design (William Lidwell, 2003)
Product Realization (Anna C. Thornton, 2021)
Bringing a hardware product to market (Elaine Chen, 2015)
Dieter Rams the complete works (Klaus Klemp, 2020)
Less and more (Dieter Rams, 2018)
Realising design (Noriko Kawakami, 2004)
Beautiful Users Designing for People (Ellen Lupton, 2014)
Collapsible (Per Mollerup, 2011)
Usefulness in Small Things (Sam Hecht, Kim Colin, 2010)
Eileen Gray: Her Life and Her Work (Peter Adam, 2014)
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees (Lawrence Wechsler, 2009)
Design for the real world (Victor Papanek, 1971)
Design as Art (Bruno Munari, 1966)
Emotional Design (Don Normanand, 2005)
Super Normal (Naoto Fukasawa, Jasper Morrison, 2007)
To Engineer Is Human (Henry Petroski, 1992)
Designing for people (Dreyfuss, 1955)
Cradle to cradle (Michael Braungart, William McDonough, 2002)
Hannover Principles (William McDonough, Michael Braungart, 1991)
Thoughtless Acts (Fulton Suri, 2005)
Square Circle Triangle (Bruno Munari, 2016)
Shaping things (Bruce Sterling 2005)
Everyday engineering (Andrew Burroughs, 2007)
The Art of Innovation (Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman, 2001)
Principles (Ray Dalio 2017)
Developing products in half the time (Preston G Smith, 1991)
The ethnographic tradition and design (Graham Button, 2000)
Measure What Matters (John Doerr, 2017)
Radical Candor (Kim Scott, 2017)