| Symbol Design | (1993).Symbol Design. New York, The American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1059 Third Ave., NY 10021 |
| AIGA Symbol Designs | |
| Industrial Design | (2001).Design Secrets: Products.Massachusetts, Rockport Publishers, 33 Commercial St. Gloucester, MA 01930. |
| (1979) Tjalve, E. A Short Course in Industrial Design. London-Boston, Newnes-Butterworths. | |
| (1983) Flurscheim, C. H. Industrial Design in Engineering: a marriage of techniques. The Design Council, London, Springer-Verlag | |
| Human Factors | Dreyfuss, H. (1967). The Measure of Man: Human Factors in Design. New York, Whitney Library of Design, 18 East 50th Street. |
| Woodson, W. E. (1981). Human Factors Design Handbook. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company. | |
| Norman, D. (1989). The Design of Everday Things. New York, Doubleday Currency | |
Tufte materials on visual communication |
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| Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design | |
| Examples of bad human factors design | |
| Essays on design from Don Norman (author of The Design of Everyday Things) | |
| Principles of interaction design | |
| Human error rates in cognitive processes | |
| Golden Rules for Bad User Interfaces (software-centric) | |
| Universal Design | Universal design, Boston Museum of Science |
| Accessible exhibit design guidelines | |
| ADA standards for accessible design, US Justice Department | |
| Lighthouse International — Guidlines for making text legible | |
| Form Giving | Hurlburt, A. (1989). Layout: the design of the printed page. New York, Watson-Guptil Publications. |
| Le Corbusier. (1954). Le Modulor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press. | |
| Le Corbusier. (1958). Modulor 2. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press. | |
| Wallace, D. R. (1991). A Computer Model of Aesthetic Industrial Design. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | |
| Sketching and Marker Rendering | Powell, D. (1985). Design Rendering Techniques. London, Orbis Publishing Limited. |
| Sketching in 3D | |
| See the video tutorials. | |
| Color | Chijiiwa, H. (1987). Color harmony. Rockport, MA, Rockport Publishers. |
| Shibukawa, I and Takahashi, Y (1990). Designer’s guide to color 5. San Fransico, CA, Chronicle Books. | |
| Walch, M and Hope, A (1995). Living Colors. San Fransico, CA, Chronicle Books. | |