15 Best business books like Presenting Design Work by Donna Spencer

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Presenting Design Work

By: Donna Spencer

4.11

Format: 52 pages, ebook

Do you love doing design work, but dread the inevitable design reviews that follow? Dread no more! …

If you liked the business plot in Presenting Design Work by Donna Spencer , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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

By: Nicole Fenton , Kate Kiefer Lee

4.12

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Whether you’re new to web writing or you’re a professional writer looking to deepen your skills, th… read more

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  • design
  • business
Cover of Just Enough Research by Erika Hall, Jeffrey Zeldman

2. Just Enough Research

By: Erika Hall , Jeffrey Zeldman

4.18

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Design research is a hard slog that takes years to learn and time away from the real work of design… read more

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  • design
  • business
"A large corporation is more like Australia: it’s impossible to see the whole landscape at once and there are so many things capable of maiming or killing you."

-Erika Hall, Just Enough Research

"Some websites are completely optimized for simple conversion, and it’s easy to tell. The design centers on one clear call to action, a vivid lozenge labeled with a verb."

-Erika Hall, Just Enough Research

Cover of Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works by Janice G. Redish

3. Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works

By: Janice G. Redish

4.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Redish has done her homework and created a thorough overview of the issues in writing for the Web.… read more

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  • design
  • business
Cover of Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug

4. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

By: Steve Krug

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since Don't Make Me Think was first published in 2000, over 400,000 Web designers and developers ha… read more

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  • design
  • business
Cover of Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1) by Octavia E. Butler

5. Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex or design. He fears … read more

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6. The Design of Everyday Things

By: Donald A. Norman

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans -- from physical objects to computer programs to c… read more

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  • design
  • business
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7. HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites

By: Jon Duckett

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Every day, more and more people want to learn some HTML and CSS. Joining the professional web desig… read more

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  • design

8. Thinking in Systems: A Primer

By: Donella H. Meadows , None

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more

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9. The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide

By: None

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

The User Experience Team of One prescribes a range of approaches that have big impact and take less… read more

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10. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

By: Scott McCloud

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication "You must read this … read more

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11. How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody

By: Abby Covert

4.28

Format: 364 pages,

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12. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

By: Dan Ariely

3.00

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 50-cent a… read more

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13. 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People

By: Susan M. Weinschenk

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

We design to elicit responses from people. We want them to buy something, read more, or take action… read more

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14. Design Is a Job

By: Erik Spiekermann , Mike Monteiro

5.00

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Co-founder of Mule Design and raconteur Mike Monteiro wants to help you do your job better. From co… read more

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15. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

By: Amy Wallace , Ed Catmull

2.83

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

"What does it mean to manage well?" From Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter)… read more

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16. Design for Real Life

By: Eric A. Meyer , Sara Wachter-Boettcher

4.34

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

You can't always predict who will use your products, or what emotional state they'll be in when the… read more

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17. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

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"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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18. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

By: David Epstein

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts… read more

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  • business
"We learn who we are only by living, and not before."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"Repetition, it turned out, was less important than struggle."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated"

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Cover of How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg

19. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

By: Bent Flyvbjerg

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more

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  • business
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20. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more

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"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."

-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

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21. Leading Content Design

By: Rachel McConnell

4.21

Format: 191 pages, ebook

Content design teams need the right conditions to thrive—but when they’re hampered by bottlenecks o… read more

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  • design
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22. Ripe

By: Sarah Rose Etter

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more

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"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

Cover of Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka

23. Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

By: Jennifer Pahlka

4.42

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“The book I wish every policymaker would read.” ― Ezra Klein, The New York Times A bold call to… read more

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  • design
  • business
Cover of Presenting Design Work by Donna Spencer

24. Presenting Design Work

By: Donna Spencer

4.11

Format: 52 pages, ebook

Do you love doing design work, but dread the inevitable design reviews that follow? Dread no more! … read more

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25. Atomic Design

By: Brad Frost

4.01

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

We're tasked with making interfaces for more users in more contexts using more browsers on more dev… read more

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  • design
  • business
Cover of Org Design for Design Orgs: Building and Managing In-House Design Teams by Peter Merholz

26. Org Design for Design Orgs: Building and Managing In-House Design Teams

By: Peter Merholz

4.23

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

Design has become the key link between users and today’s complex and rapidly evolving digital exper… read more

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  • design
  • business
Cover of Design Systems: A practical guide to creating design languages for digital products by Alla Kholmatova

27. Design Systems: A practical guide to creating design languages for digital products

By: Alla Kholmatova

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Not all design systems are equally effective. Some can generate coherent user experiences, others p… read more

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  • design
  • business
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28. Accessibility for Everyone

By: Laura Kalbag

4.15

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

A guide for the accessibility landscape: understand disability and impairment challenges; get a han… read more

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  • design
  • business
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29. Better Onboarding

By: Krystal Higgins

4.26

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

When users try your product for the first time, what keeps them coming back? Onboarding can make th… read more

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  • design
  • business
Cover of Design for Cognitive Bias by David Dylan Thomas

30. Design for Cognitive Bias

By: David Dylan Thomas

4.43

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

We humans are messy, illogical creatures who like to imagine we’re in control—but we blithely let o… read more

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  • design
  • business
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31. Expressive Design Systems

By: Yesenia Perez-Cruz

4.28

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Good design systems can help you create digital products with efficiency and consistency. But great… read more

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  • design

16 must-read design books like Presenting Design Work by Donna Spencer

Transform Your Habits

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

Nicole Fenton , Kate Kiefer Lee

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Just Enough Research

Erika Hall , Jeffrey Zeldman

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works

Janice G. Redish

4.49

Transform Your Habits

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Steve Krug

4.30

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17 Top nonfiction books like Org Design for Design Orgs: Building and Managing In-House Design Teams by Peter Merholz

Transform Your Habits

Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

Richard P. Rumelt

4.13

Transform Your Habits

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

Jon Kolko

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Design of Everyday Things

Donald A. Norman

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Jake Knapp , John Zeratsky , None

4.03

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