Books to Get Started as a Web Designer

If you’re new to the game or are simply looking for a refresher, the following books are a selection of my favourites that have guided me to where I am today as a designer and continue to be great resources.  This list is heavily web design centric, but a few of these book are design and typography classics and offer perspectives and advice that is easily applied to various disciplines.

Design Theory

• Emotional Design by Donald Norman
• Designing for Emotion by Aaron Walter
• Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug

Typography

• The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
• Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works by Erik Spiekermann
• The Complete Manual of Typography by James Felici
• Thinking With Type by Ellen Luption

Technical Chops

• HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Kieth
• CSS3 for Web Designers by Dan Cederholm
• Responsive Web Design By Ethan Marcotte