The Story of Art
Author: Your Majesty. sir e.h.gombrich
Content abstract: From the earliest cave painting to today's experimental art, it is expounded that the history of art is a history in which various traditions are constantly changing, and every work in this history not only reviews the past, but also leads to the future.
Title: A Brief History of Western Fine Arts
Author: Hendrick? Lung Fong
Content abstract: It tells the development track and behind-the-scenes essence of western art history with beautiful words and clear ideas.
Artistic visual design
Plane composition
Book title: graphic design rules
Author: millman
Content Description: It is a one-stop resource library for design students. It is not only an interesting basic course, but also an "introductory reading" for in-depth practice in the field of design.
Title: Visual Dictionary of Graphic Design
Author: Gavin Ambrose/Harris
Description: This paper aims to distinguish and explain some confusing professional words in graphic design, such as the difference between diagonal lines and italics, the difference between reprinting, overprinting and flipping.
Artistic painting
Title: Vision and Painting
Author: Norman? Bre
This book makes a sharp theoretical criticism on the research status of western art history, emphasizing the sociality of painting images and their unique perspective as symbols, and expanding the research horizon from the perspective of the contemporary development of history and humanities.
Title: Sketch and Visual Thinking
Author: Wu
Content abstract: This book re-examines and selects the long-standing sketch tradition from ancient times to modern times; This paper systematically combs and thinks about the common elements of the needs of various design majors and the teaching and practice of basic sketch of design.
Color component
Title: Fundamentals of Design and Color Matching
Author: School of Visual Design
Content Description: Help readers to understand the overall effect of color matching and the basic knowledge about color matching, explain the method of creating a picture atmosphere, and how to express the theme by using the feeling of color.
Title: Color Composition of Art Design
Author: Naoko asakura.
Content abstract: Although this book is very old, after all, learning is a constant thing! I have to admit that books on teaching in Japan are much more rigorous than those in China.
format design
Title: Principles of Layout Design
Author: Yida Chiyo
Content Description: Explain all aspects of the design in layers with clear chapters and easy-to-understand words. The author recorded all his practical experiences and understandings from the aspects of establishing organization, adding changes, emphasizing key points, design skills and colors in design.
Title: Grid System and Layout Design
Author: Kimberly Elam
Content abstract: The design shown in this book transcends the dogma of simple functionalism and minimalism, making layout design a real dynamic communication way.
Font design
Title: Principles of Character Design
Author: Chiyoda/Nagahiko Naito
Abstract: The author collects many years' experience and uses a large number of practical cases to gradually develop various important factors of text design from the aspects of text understanding, text and images, easy-to-read text combination, how to emphasize text in design and the application of text in typesetting.
Title: Commercial Font Design
Author: Xu Hanwen
Content abstract: The author travels all over the country, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Europe, and communicates with font designers and character designers all over the world. He works, studies and constantly reflects on the thoughts extracted from introspection every day.
Interactive design
User experience design
Title: Breaking Cocoons into Butterflies —— User Experience Designer
Author: Liu Jin/Li Yue
Abstract: A very real book basically tells us what user experience is from the beginning. The book incorporates valuable professional experience and professional thinking, which has certain reference value and significance for interaction designers, visual designers and user researchers.
Principles and norms of interactive design
Title: Simplicity First: Four Strategies of Interaction Design
Author: Giles Cobain
Content abstract: A very concise, thought-provoking and illustrated book. Simplify design and improve usability. Create an excellent and eternal user experience.
Title: Cognition and Design: Understanding UI Design Standards
Author: JeffJohnson
Abstract: The design criterion is highly unified with its core cognitive science and perceptual science. This paper analyzes the essence of interaction design from the perspective of cognition and psychology, and introduces how to apply the latest cognitive achievements to interaction design.
Design psychology
Title: Design Psychology
Author: DonaldNorman
Abstract: It helps us to find the key to these problems, that is, product design ignores the real needs of users in a certain situation, and even violates the cognitive principle.
design principle
Title: turning stone into gold
Author: Steve Crook
Content abstract: This book is short and pithy, and its language is relaxed and humorous. It is interspersed with a lot of colorful screen shots, interesting cartoon illustrations and charts containing a lot of information, which makes the boring design principle approachable.
Title: Design in Design
Author: Kenya Hara
Content abstract: Look for the place that needs to be designed with humble and sharp eyes, and place yourself exactly where his intention can be given life.
Title: A book designed for everyone.
Authors: Williams, Robin Williams,
Content Description: With its concise and lively style, the four basic principles that excellent design must follow and the principles behind them are presented to readers in an easy-to-understand way. This book contains a lot of examples to let you know how to design beautiful and rich products in your own way.
Of course, everything is the most reliable.
See many people on the Internet and around are discussing how to learn UI design, UI design career prospects and other topics. I have to say that the profession of UI is really in great demand now, and many people want to learn * * and engage in related work. Design is a skill that needs to be precipitated, but it happens to meet the ever-changing Internet culture. Only knowledge and practical efforts can make an excellent UI designer.