Yesterday I asked my friends and acquaintances for their favorite books on visual design and user interaction design. Here’s what they recommended:

• Don’t Make Me Think, by Steve Krug
• Design for Hackers, by David Kadavy
• The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman
• The Non-Designer’s Designer’s Book, by Robin Williams
• The Systems Bible, by John Gall
• A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, and Shlomo Angel

Thank you to Brett Stimmerman, Jay Shirley, and Sam Mikes for all these suggestions!