Design for Real Life
2016 • 140 pages

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Sara Wachter-Boettcher and Eric Meyer give you the tools and guiding principles to develop inclusive design practices that support a wider range of people, more of the time.


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#18 in A Book Apart

A Book Apart is a 25-book series with 25 released primary works first released in 2010 with contributions by Jeremy Keith, Dan Cederholm, and Erin Kissane.

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HTML5 for Web Designers
#2
CSS3 for Web Designers
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The Elements of Content Strategy
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Responsive Web Design
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Designing for Emotion
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Mobile First
#7
Design Is a Job
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Just enough research
#10
Sass for Web Designers
#11
On Web Typography
#12
You're My Favorite Client
#13
Responsible Responsive Design

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The book is nice — the first half in particular.
It does go on for a bit too long and repeats itself a lot in the second half.
Nonetheless, a very important topic for designers, worth the easy and short read

July 25, 2019

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