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Sense and Respond

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2017; paperback, 140 × 216 × 20.8 millimetres. ISBN 9781633691896.

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Forms that work

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by Elsevier in 2009; paperback, 191 × 235 × 13 millimetres. ISBN 9781558607101.

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Accessibility for Everyone

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by A Book Apart in 2017; paperback, 140 × 216 × 9.7 millimetres. ISBN 9781937557614.

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Inclusive Design Patterns (eBook)

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by Smashing Magazine in 2016; paperback, 140 × 216 × 23.8 millimetres. ISBN 9783945749432.

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Mismatch

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by The MIT Press in 2018; hardcover, 137 × 203 × 19 millimetres. ISBN 9780262038881.

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Design for the real world

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by Thames and Hudson in 1985; paperback, 137 × 206 × 23.9 millimetres. ISBN 9780500273586.

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Cradle to Cradle

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2010; paperback, 145 × 218 × 16.1 millimetres. ISBN 9781429973847.

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Helvetica, Objectified, Urbanized

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by Swiss Dots in 2015; paperback, 140 × 216 × 55.1 millimetres. ISBN 9780989532143.

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S, M, L, XL

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by The Monacelli Press, LLC in 1997; hardcover, 154 × 234 × 60 millimetres. ISBN 9781885254863.

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How to Speak Machine, with a New Preface by the Author

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by MIT Press in 2025; paperback, 178 × 229 × 18.7 millimetres. ISBN 9780262553179.

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Redesigning leadership

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by MIT Press in 2011; paperback, 143 × 210 × 13.5 millimetres. ISBN 9780262015882.

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Design for How People Learn

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by New Riders Publishing in 2015; paperback, 140 × 216 × 23.2 millimetres. ISBN 9780134211527.

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The best interface is no interface

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by New Riders in 2015; paperback, 152 × 226 × 17.8 millimetres. ISBN 9780133890334.

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Tragic Design

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc. in 2017; paperback, 152 × 229 × 17 millimetres. ISBN 9781491923566.

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Design for Real Life

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by aba in 2016; paperback, 140 × 216 × 10.5 millimetres. ISBN 9781937557409.

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Conversational Design

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by A Book Apart in 2018; paperback, 140 × 216 × 10.3 millimetres. ISBN 9781937557676.

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Designing Voice User Interfaces: Principles of Conversational Experiences

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by O'Reilly Media in 2016; paperback, 152 × 229 × 12.7 millimetres. ISBN 9781491955413.

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Making and Breaking the Grid

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by Rockport Publishers in 2005; paperback, 229 × 286 × 12.7 millimetres. ISBN 9781592531257.

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The New Typography (Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism)

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by University of California Press in 1998; paperback, 152 × 216 × 12.7 millimetres. ISBN 9780520071476.

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Detail In Typography

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by Hyphen Press in 2008; paperback, 127 × 213 × 6.4 millimetres. ISBN 9780907259343.

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Stop stealing sheep & find out how type works

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by Adobe Press in 1993; paperback, 140 × 216 × 10.9 millimetres. ISBN 9780672485435.

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Just my type

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by Gotham Books in 2011; hardcover, 152 × 222 × 31.8 millimetres. ISBN 9781592406524.

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Shady Characters

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. in 2014; paperback, 140 × 211 × 25.4 millimetres. ISBN 9780393349726.

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The Book

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Catalogued under Design practice. Published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2016; paperback, 150 × 216 × 40.6 millimetres. ISBN 9780393244793.

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