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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol Dweck
Test Driven Development: By Example - Kent Beck
Implementation Patterns - Kent Beck
Wim Crouwel in his own words (http://www.lauwenprojects.com/projects.asp?id=114)
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability - Steve Krug
Badass: Making Users Awesome - Kathy Sierra
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students - Ellen Lupton
The Vignelli Canon - Massimo Vignelli (http://www.vignelli.com/canon.pdf)
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works - Erik Spiekermann, E.M Ginger
Mental Models - Indi Young
Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers - Josef Müller-Brockmann
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative Paperback – Edward R. Tufte
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master - Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
The Elements of Typographic Style - Robert Bringhurst
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans
The Design of Everyday Things - Donald Norman
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This is a list of the books in https://twitter.com/thijs/status/734713122846593024 from left to right, top to bottom.

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I recommend Anders Ericsson instead of Dweck and can HIGHLY recommend "Object Thinking" (Microsoft Press) - spectacular book.

For beginners: "Universal Princples of Design" (William Lidwell)

And, I wish "About Face 3" would be published in a new edition.

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