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Books like 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People by Susan Weinschenk is about psychology of perception, user experience, cognitive science. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. The Design of Everyday Things
    The Design of Everyday Things

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    The Design of Everyday Things

    Donald Norman · Psychology

    The Design of Everyday Things began as The Psychology of Everyday Things when first published in 1988, and Donald Norman revised it substantially for a 2013 edition that updated the examples for a digital age.

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  2. Designing Design

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    Designing Design

    Kenya Hara · Philosophy

    Kenya Hara is one of Japan's most respected graphic designers, best known for his long association with Muji, and Designing Design is his attempt to articulate what design actually is — and, more specifically, what distinguishes a distinctly Japanese approach from the Western design tradition.

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  3. Concerning the Spiritual in Art
    Concerning the Spiritual in Art

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    Concerning the Spiritual in Art

    Wassily Kandinsky · Philosophy

    Wassily Kandinsky's 1911 manifesto is the founding document of abstract art.

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  4. Emotional Intelligence
    Emotional Intelligence

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    Emotional Intelligence

    Daniel Goleman · Psychology

    Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, published in 1995, made a widely influential argument: that the cluster of abilities involved in managing emotions — self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and social skill — predicts life outcomes at least as well as IQ, and possibly better in many domains.

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  5. A General Theory of Love
    A General Theory of Love

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    A General Theory of Love

    Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon · Psychology

    A General Theory of Love is a 2000 book by three psychiatrists at the University of California, San Francisco — Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon — who set out to explain love scientifically without stripping it of its significance.

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  6. Adult Children of Alcoholics
    Adult Children of Alcoholics

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    Adult Children of Alcoholics

    Janet G. Woititz · Psychology

    Adult Children of Alcoholics is Janet Woititz's clinical guide to the lasting psychological patterns that develop in children raised in alcoholic families.

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