All books by yale university press
Design and Truth
Robert Grudin
A wide-ranging and philosophical approach to user-centered design. Grudin argues compellingly that design that does not consider the user is dishonest. See also: my review in the Barnes&Noble Review. more
The Craftsman
Richard Sennett
Sennett defines craftmanship as the desire to do a job well for its own sake. In so doing, he frees it of the bounds of carpentry or metalwork and extends the work of craft to that of the programmer, the doctor, and the parent. And he restores materialism—long maligned as being complicit in capitalism’s ills—as that which looks to “cloth, circuit boards, or baked fish as objects worthy of regard in themselves” (page 7). more
The Library at Night
Alberto Manguel
A series of meandering essays on the subject of the library. more
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A Book Apart
Jeremy Keith on everything you need to know about the web’s new markup language, from semantics to strategy.
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