Examples illustrate worth. And Williams Delivers | Non-Designer's Design Book, The (3rd Edition) (Non...

Design Newbies, this is awesome! | Non-Designer's Design Book, The (3rd Edition) (Non Designer's Design Book) | Robin Williams

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	• Non-Designer's Design Book, The (3rd Edition) (Non Designer's Design Book) Robin Williams Peachpit Press, 2008 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 215 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The designer's first baby steps

This book is thin and is a fast read. But that's not a bad thing because I learnt a good deal of stuff from it about design. As the author says in the beginning, you'll never look at design the same way again and it is in fact true!

I now have a better idea of spotting out designs that don't work and explaining why because I've realized things that I never noticed before.

If you've never had any formal training, this is definitely the best first book to start with... like one reviewer said, its a good snack. Not the whole dinner meal (a proper design training book or course), but a good snack that will differentiate you from that starving designer next to you :)

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Examples illustrate worth. And Williams Delivers

This book is best valued through the use of counter examples to illustrate how changes can effect the utility of documents. Although not all will agree with the effectiveness of the changes (surely we all have our opinions), it shows in the text how the changes work, and does illustrate the differences.

Design Newbies, this is awesome!

I am a professional programmer by day that has always wished he had the skill to be able to design things. I can tell when something is off, can tell when something is aweful, as well as can tell when something is great. What I can't do is tell how to change something aweful to great.

This book breaks it down for you in four different concepts. It helps you analyze designs and pick apart them piece by piece. This is exactly what I was looking for. I am grateful for this book.

Very highly recommend it if you are a Design Newbie, like me :)

I also recommend getting "Robin Williams Design Workshop", too. That extends and builds upon what you learned (though may need some other books that talk about other topics more in detail like color and fonts). I am currently going through that one. I like it, I do not have to be ignorant to this world.

Many programming and design thought processes are the same when attacking problems, so if you are a programmer, you should be able to digest this information and still tickle your artistic side!

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100% useful

Very useful book. Clear to read. Straight to the point. Excellent for beginners and whoever wants to creat impact publications.
I bought it to teach to my students and Introduction to graphic design lasting only a quarter, and it is great. Although the book has not got a specific "exercises section" many examples of the text can be used as exercises for students. If only the examples of bad designs where available online! It would be great , so students could turn the bad designs into good designs following the principles shown in the book. SUPER!

Fantastic! Wish There Was More...

This book is basically the nuts and bolts to good design. If you are not interested in reading about theory and want to jump into designing correctly or you want to improve your designing skills IMMEDIATELY, this is the book to buy. Many design choices (mistakes) are addressed and explained in simple English. You are able to enhance business cards (for ex.) without reading a complete chapter. This book offers instant results. This is definitely one that should be in your collection whether for small business needs or a designing career.

I'm giving 4 stars instead of 5 only because I wish the author would have given a bit more suggestions.

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