A design book for everyone
This book mainly explains some theories of typesetting, which is very suitable for students who have no design foundation. If the layout is weak, you must have a good look at this book.
Biography of Tencent
This book mainly expounds the growth history of Tencent in 18, from the early launch of QQ products to the late listing of Tencent, and then to the late launch of WeChat products. The product history and growth history of Tencent are explained in detail, which is of great help to improve the user experience of products.
Biography of Jobs
This book mainly tells the life of Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, from birth to the establishment of Apple, and then to the release of Apple mobile phones. Steve Jobs is known as the greatest product manager in the world, and his product thinking has reached an incredible level.
It is precisely because Steve Jobs developed the Apple mobile phone that it promoted the rapid development of the smart phone industry and made the mobile phone UI design develop rapidly. I strongly recommend this book to improve your product thinking. It is perfect.
You can't learn to fish in the sea.
This book is mainly about the user experience of Haidilao, a hot pot restaurant serving the hot pot industry, which is still the first in the country. After reading this book, I will understand what a top user experience service is. This kind of experience service thinking is a must-read for self-study UI design. Seo 1 deserves our deep thought and can be used in our UI design products as appropriate.
The golden rule of UI design
This book mainly explains some typesetting rules in UI design interface, which is suitable for students who don't understand UI design interface design and layout color. However, this book is rather abstruse, and most people can't understand it. You need to read more and read carefully to understand.
Big talk designer
This book mainly explains some problems of designers' daily work and taking orders, such as how to communicate with leaders, bosses and customers when designing docking. There is also how to quote when you usually take orders, when to jump ship and so on.
Basic course of role design
"Basic Course of Character Design" expounds the basic principles of character design through detailed explanations, rich illustrations and world classic cases, and also shows the rich changes of character design across different media and the effect of character design from basic application to artistic expression.
Master the basics of design and color matching in seven days
The book introduces the knowledge about color matching through rich legends, which makes learning lively and interesting. In the reading part, several tones are used to explain the different effects brought by different TINT, which is convenient for readers to understand; The chapter is accompanied by vivid exercises to test the learning effect and enhance the reader's sense of accomplishment.
logo; brand mark
Logo design is a project that designers long for, but it is usually one of the most difficult projects for a designer to control. In this book, the author discusses the challenges that designers encounter when trying to create a symbol of success. The logo case mentioned shows the creativity of designers and the process of digging deep into inspiration.
Emotional design
Some people say it's similar to design psychology, others say it's just a few words over and over again. But I can read different experiences from this book at each stage. When I come across many successful and great cases, I will think of the words in this book. The people-oriented design principle expounded by the author has been deeply rooted in people's hearts, and now this book "Design Psychology" has become a classic book for designers.
Web interface design
On the basis of years of practical experience and unremitting exploration, UI experts BillScott and TheresaNeil summarized and refined six principles of Web interface design-directness, simplified interaction, staying at home, invitation, use transformation and instant response. Based on these six principles, taking various popular Websites on the Internet as examples, they show readers more than 75 web interface construction modes based on rich interaction, and use simple and clear language.
Pay attention to excellent employment and learn more IT knowledge.
UI is the abbreviation of UserInterface, which generally refers to the user's operation interface. Including mobile apps, web pages, smart wearable devices, etc. Which means you've been using it.
To be an excellent UI designer, you need to master many skills, such as visual design, interactive design and some front-end HTML5 content, not just the part responsible for graphic design. Therefore, if UI designers want to go further on the road of career development, they must cultivate their own internal strength. This article will recommend some high-quality books, including graphic design, web design and UI design. If you need friends, please collect this book list quickly!
A, graphic design class:
Layout the present layout design.
Highlight: This book is suitable for students who are engaged in graphic work or pursue layout design. There are a large number of real case pictures of layout design in the book, which is convenient for reference at any time.
Words without words
Highlight: Through this book, we can learn about: the development of fonts, the analysis and expression of fonts, the use characteristics of various tools, the full analysis and explanation of different fonts, and the case application of commercial fonts. In this book, there are a lot of methods and experiences about handwritten font design, which were finally preserved by the author through constant trial and error. There are many design methods, and the author has written his own summary into this book. I just hope that these summaries can give some inspiration and help to beginners and make them satisfied.
Magic geometry
Highlight: This is a pure case book, and all of them are exclusive. Such a wonderful collection of cases can't be seen anywhere else, which makes you full of inspiration anytime and anywhere. This book is an in-depth study of geometric figures and their plane applications. There are 99 excellent cases in the world, and each case will catch readers' eyes and enrich their designs. MagicalGeometry explores the visual expressiveness and diversity of geometric figures in graphic design applications by displaying 622 works by outstanding designers and teams from all over the world.
Second, the web design class:
Refined Handbook for General Web Designers
Recommended reason: The whole idea of this book is to systematically deepen and expound the core knowledge that designers should master, and then show how these core knowledge are applied to different design works through different types of practical work cases, and systematically show the relationship between design theory and design works.
H5+ Mobile Marketing Design Collection
Highlight: This is a professional design book about H5 mobile marketing website design. It will not only teach you some specific design methods, but also let you know the definition and specification of H5 content, see the current situation of the industry and understand the future trend of the industry.
Font story
Recommended reason: This is a book on font design methodology based on the structural principle of Chinese characters, combined with practical cases such as games, commercial brands and movies. The methods in the book, such as serif strengthening, yin and yang contraction, word weight adjustment, center of gravity adjustment, stroke inheritance, stippling and hand drawing, analyze fonts from the font attributes such as serif/sans serif, word weight, font chest, center of gravity and structure, and achieve font design skills by changing font attributes.
Third, the UI design class:
Different user interface designers
Highlight: This excellent designer is not only a skilled operator of software and tools, but also a deep thinker of design methods and thinking. With the popularity of many new design tools and the increasingly fierce competition among UI designers. Facing the troubles and problems in design work, designers should think more about how to make themselves better and "different". To design is to make products. This book expounds the growth process experienced by designers from three aspects: tools, design methods and thinking, interaction and dynamic effects. Taking product thinking as the core, not only tell readers how to do it, but more importantly, tell everyone why to do it, how to think in this process, improve the designer's own working style and thinking, and become a "different designer".
The above is the quality book list of UI designers I recommend. Of course, it is not enough just to let everyone read the theories and cases in this book. The effective learning method should be to integrate theory with practice. To be an excellent UI designer, a lot of practice is essential.
Websites: Dribbble, Behance, Station Cool, Petals, UI China, etc.
The book Under Design consists of three parts, which comprehensively expounds the process and method of user experience design. The first part is "interactive design", which expounds the process from project start-up, demand analysis to prototype design, and summarizes the main points of interactive design: overall situation, simple operation process, novel and unified form and various special situations. The second part is "visual design", which expounds the specific methods such as interface, color, icon, texture, animation, cutting pictures, and how to find the balance between design and technology in cooperation with development/test engineers. The third part, Excellent Designers in Their Eyes, explains how to be an excellent designer from the perspectives of product manager, programmer, operation manager and marketing manager.
"By your side, design for you" —— Tencent's way of user experience design. The contents of this book include: design concept, design method, user research, experience design, design process and tools, knowledge and experience sharing in team growth and management.
Touching people's hearts is a Chinese translation of Tapworthy: Designing Great Mobile Applications, which tells you how to think about application design from the perspective of iPhone. This book can help you understand how to design an iPhone application, and how to comprehensively consider design, psychology, culture, ergonomics and usability in order to create a touching application. In the book, you will see a lot of real application design examples and thinking processes. In addition to a large number of examples, this book also expounds the whole iPhone application design method in an easy-to-understand language system.
I hope my answer is helpful to you ~