Bret Victor
Interface designer and researcher known for Inventing on Principle and Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction; founder of Dynamicland.
A History of Graphic Design by Philip Meggs
History is the best distinguisher of fashion from fundamentals.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The winners write the history books.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
A Theory of Fun by Raph Koster
Why learning is fun, and fun is learning.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
Form limits function.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared by Genrich Altshuller
A delightfully insane introduction to systematic invention.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
Cradle to Cradle by McDonough and Braungart
Manufacturing is compatible with global ecology.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
Designing for People by Henry Dreyfuss
Memoirs of one of the founders of industrial design.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
Folklore by Andy Hertzfeld
Anecdotes about the creation of the original Macintosh.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
The formal systems, they are everywhere.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
Hacker's Delight by Henry Warren, Jr.
A treasure of bit-manipulation algorithms.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
Harmonic Experience by W.A. Mathieu
Tonal theory done right.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
Logic & Design in Art, Science, & Mathematics by Krome Barratt
A bizarre and fascinating tour de force of analytic design.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
Mindstorms by Seymour Papert
This is how humans were meant to learn.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Steven Strogatz
Pictures, examples, geometric intuition.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
Reforming the Mathematical Language of Physics by David Hestenes
The geometric structure of abstract nonsense.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
Rules of Play by Salen and Zimmerman
A comprehensive and insightful analysis of interactive design.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson
The essence of software engineering.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
Technopoly by Neil Postman
Technological dependence, and the amorality of progress.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming
How to do great work.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
The Design and Evolution of C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup
Biography of a language.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
Design as cognitive science.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
The Elements of Graphing Data by W. Cleveland
How to present data, and the why of the how.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin
Another classic analytic look at interface design.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
The Little Schemer by Friedman and Felleisen
One of the most unique and effective pedagogic books ever written.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
History of English.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
This is how the world changes: with a bang, not a whimper.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
The bibles of information design.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
The pedagogical potential of the comic form is vast and mostly untapped.
on worrydream.com · 6 Nov 2024
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