Top design sites, books, or ideas? TIL about Braun & Dieter Rams. https://readymag.com/shuffle/dieter-rams/
Highly recommend the documentary on Dieter: https://www.hustwit.com/rams
Dieter Rams got it right. Good design is about simplicity. Here are a few other ideas I think are true:
Da cosa nasce cosa, Bruno Munari. I can’t believe it is not translated to english https://www.scribd.com/document/478900654/Bruno-Munari-DA-COSA-NASCE-COSA-pdf
two on the more philosophical side Tony Fadell's Build https://www.amazon.com/Build-Unorthodox-Guide-Making-Things/dp/B09LGNR2TW Inventing on Principle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII&list=FLSA0q3qsH94LS4FCoSuyrGQ&index=5
“The Design of Everyday Things” by Don Norman is a classic. https://a.co/d/9BxGyqd
This is a classic as well as the others linked in this thread https://www.amazon.ca/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability/dp/0321965515
When thinking about Systems Design http://2013.strelka.com/press_en/dark-matter-and-trojan-horses-dan-hill/?lang=en
When thinking about spaces and atmospheres: https://www.amazon.com/Atmospheres-Peter-Zumthor/dp/3764374950
When thinking about the things we use day by day and not even considering it to be designed anymore: https://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/super-normal
When thinking about a design philosophy for this century: https://www.amazon.com/Virgil-Abloh-Insert-Complicated-Incidents/dp/3956793811 (also his talk at harvard)
When thinking about accessibility: https://www.bookdepository.com/Mismatch-Kat-Holmes/9780262539487?redirected=true&utm_med[…]vhHrTGwpKmkWqLCV3bjoE62HtKFBt5FM2Fkp42LkxdvBoC8rUQAvD_BwE
When thinking about bigger scales: https://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/are-we-human
When thinking about that everything is designed from walls and borders to the brands ofterrorist movement: https://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/handbook-tyranny
When thinking about design as way to explore multiple futures some desirable others not: https://www.amazon.com/Design-Noir-Electronic-Objects-Thinking/dp/1350070637/ref=sr_[…]oks&sprefix=anthony+dunne%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C145&sr=1-3
When thinking about the creative process but make it a comic: https://www.amazon.com/Yes-More-Archicomic-Architectural-Evolution/dp/3836520109/ref[…]8&s=books&sprefix=rem+ko%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C127&sr=1-27
When thinking about memes, remixes, duets and that everything is a copy and thats ok: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/shanzhai
Two suggestions, also German. Gestalt Principles (idea/heuristics) https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/gestalt-principles
Did you ever watch the film: Objectified? Worth a watch and also features Dieter Rams.
As I’ve been thinking wrt product design (which seems to be inherent in every idea), the one experience I least expected to reference as much as I do, gutting homes/spaces and rebuilding them. The flow of a home; walls, outlets, rough plumbing, lines, so much.
my biggest inspirations: the humane interface, designing with the mind in mind, tufte’s first 4 books, and the timeless way of building