Building The Bookcase
Last month I happened upon a website that had a book section which reminded me of when I first launched my site. However during University my casual reading had to take a backseat and in one of my questionable decisions I decided to remove my booklist in favour of other services such as Readernaut.
For a few days after I visited the aforementioned site I could think about nothing else than bringing my bookshelf back to life and I have decided that it’s time to relaunch the bookshelf with all of the books I have found useful in learning web design and design in general.
Why have I brought it back?
It’s all well and good utilising other services such as Readernaut and Shelfari but I like to be able to have more control. Another reason I decided to bring it back is due to the amount of traffic that it used to generate, and the fact that I have now been able to get back into my reading since leaving Uni.
The bookshelfs appearance
Due to the sheer number of books that are on the page I’ve decided to incorporate a navigational filter that will only display books tagged under the category that you have clicked on the navigation. The sections in the navigation are; design, development, layout, motivational and typography.
Any questions?
If you need to ask any questions about the literature listed on my bookshelf then feel free to send me an email and I’ll be more than happy to get back to you. All I ask in return is that if you do decide to purchase the book, after asking for an opinion or whatever, you do so by clicking on the image of the book as they have all been linked up to my Amazon affiliate.
Go and have a look, I promise you won’t be disappointed.
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Who I am
My name is Jack Osborne and I am a Glasgow–based designer and writer. You should follow me on Twitter.
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What I do
I am a front-end developer with proficiency in; accessibility, design, semantics, usability & web standards.
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Where I do it
I am currently working freelance and I am available for hire. Feel free to get in touch with me if you fancy a chat.
Nice bookshelf Jack, looks very cool. Few books in there I need to get. Between Crush It, Designing For The Web and UX Design, which should I go for next?
I’ve only just started reading Crush it! Ms. Baxter will be pleased as she’s been telling me to get it for months now. So far it seems pretty good, as I initially thought it was going to be all hype. However, a word of warning, do not read this book if you are not in the profession you wish to be in. It’ll make you unhappy and wonder what’s the point of continuing. The theme of the book seems to be “if you’re not passionate about something, don’t do it.” Luckily I don’t think you fall into this camp.
UX Design, was the last book I read and my first on UX. I throughly enjoyed it but that might be down partly to the fact that this is in area I really want to get in to and understand. I’ll probably read it again to make sure I’ve understood everything.
With regards to Designing for the Web, everything about it is great. I love the size, the material, the layout and all of the other little personal touches. The information isn’t bad either, haha! Out of all three this would probably be my pick of the bunch. The fact that this is going to become part of a three book series makes it all the more appealing.
Loving the site, Jack! I took a dander over to your bookshelf and some nice books on there.
What is that Swiss Graphic Design book like? Looks like it could be VERY good reading for a Helvetica enthusiast like myself.
So many books I want and so little time to read them! Eeeek! :-0
SGD is pretty good filled with a lot of good information, broken down into nice digestable chunks. The design itself it’s brilliant and I love the layout, with the pages being split into two columns. Full to the bring of great info and graphics.
I actually prefer Grid Systems as it’s basically the book that started everything off and also because it proved quite hard to track down.
Both books are worthy additions to any bookshelf.
There are almost too many good books I want at the minute! If I extended the average day to 48 hours I might just get a chance to read some of them.
I find some books hard work, so I always lean towards the books I know will have a gorgeous design making my experience that bit better.
It looks great Jack. The only thing I’d like to see added is a small review of each book, letting us know how useful you found it etc. Having said that you do link to the amazon page for each book which has user submitted reviews so… Nevermind