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This book is full of fascinating and useful information, I only found one example that was not well explained and one huge misinterpretation of evolutionary theory which detracted from the quality of the book.
Otherwise, I highly recommend it, I think this could actually benefit anyone who works with or presents information, but it should make a solid impact for software designers, They should have this in every bathroom in every software company on the planet great for just perusing, Any page of this book contains at least one really good idea for improving something you work with, The layout and graphics are as expected stellar, Simple and clear. A breeze to read and also full of relevant real life examples of applied design principles, Fantastic reference for all designers to keep on their desk, I especially like the questionbased reference guide located just after the table of contents this helps guide your study of the principles taught in the book.
Incredibly informative reference material on design principles, I really liked how each principle was laid out, The table of contents were also laid out in multiple ways depending on how you wanted to use the book which was a thoughtful touch.
Some of the images were pretty dated though it'd be nice if they came out with a revised/updated edition! A good reference if you are interested in the intersection of design, psychology, theory of evolution, human bias, why things look certain way.

I love that it points me to the seminal work on each topic for deeper immersion, Also the writing indicates that the authors were having fun writing this, not like trying to complete a dictionary, which I always appreciate, A less joyful review compared toyears ago, The book is a very good intro to the crossway between design, behaviour and psychology,

"cracking book! I can readmore pages of this one, Absolute joy while reading it, Surely a reference book that I'll get back to again and again, " An elegant, useful compendium of principles of design and thinking, Finally finish this book after abandoning it for so long!

Filled with many principles of design, it is just what i am looking for in such a book.
However, some of the explanation of these principles are hard to understand for me, I found myself doze off on the explanation at the end of the explanation, and had to reread the explanation a few times, Maybe because i am not a native english speakers, eh

I count the first read of the book as an action to familiarize myself with these principles.
Will surely need to revisit the book to remember the principles, Universal Principles of Design reminds me of a book I had when I was younger that had different letters of the alphabet and big, glossy pictures of things starting with that letter.


As with the alphabet book, I'm not sure how comprehensive or useful "Universal Principles" would be as a reference to everything you might expect to ever see, it's not an encyclopedia or even a dictionary, but the pictures are cool, and the content's interesting.
Finally finished this one. Packed full of good stuff, A great read for any designer, I learned so much from this book, It gave names to things I had "felt" before about design, taught me a bunch of new things, and reinforced the little I already knew about design.


Highly recommended. Such a good book! One of the only textbooks to ever hold my attention so tightly that I almost missed my trainstop reading it.
A great blend of useful tips and the psychology/design principles behind them, I will be keeping this on my shelf for a long time to come, I feel Designing is a more an applied branch of Psychology then just being about aesthetic, and this book has convinced me all the more.
The book by itself so wonderfully realizes all the concepts of designing and to design, in its own format, structure and presentation, that the Universal Principles of Design's presentation itself can serve as one of the example on a great design.
Each design principles are elaborated so clearly, lucidly, concisely with the relevant examples, and then summarised, all of these in just one page each with related illustrations and figures in the adjoining pages.
While the principles can be applied in so many professional trades and businesses not forgetting artserving as a text book , some forms, ideas and mediums of expressions, I felt could be applied generally and socially too, almost like some of those books on 'how to influence' or 'effective communication' but more better then them presumably.
My only small grouse would be that some themes were repeated but then again it's nuances and distinction were spelt out clearly enough to merit the repetition.
Super. I am glad I got hard cover edition cos I am going to be savouring it for a long, long time This is a great resource for any kind of designer, especially of the interaction, interface or industrial sorts.
It consists offundamental concepts common to all matters of design, such as the/rule, Hick's law, Ockham's razor, mapping, etc, . Nicely typeset and layed out, with simple, effective diagrams for pretty much every concept, Highly recommended for people who like to make things both look and work really, really well, What to expect from a book with such a title,

I only read aboutprinciples, including a few ones that might be helpful,
Disliked this book. I've been meaning to review this book for quite a while, because its about design, but I didn't really start reviewing books until after I had read it.
The nice thing about reviewing after the span of a couple of years it that I now remember only the Universal Principles of Design's most salient aspects.


The book is a great resource for anyone especially any visual learner hoping to gain a sense of the field of design.
Each pair of facing large pages presents a summary of an important design principle, The lefthand page provides a text summary with references to the seminal and other significant academic works in the margins, while the right provides a concrete visual example of some application of the principle.


The Universal Principles of Design's two pages on visuospatial resonance inspired me to make my own webpage that sitelinkallows you interactively to explore visuospatial resonance and provides summaries of the five papers on that topic referenced by this book.
Boring and redundant, all this information is easily accessible online and most of it is so obvious and intuitive to begin with, It didn't even need to be a whole book most of the principals build on top of one another, easily could be reduced down to like five pages maybe.


A classic. If you are interested in design, but not in any particular area, you should really read this book, Goes trough every major topic, explaining the basics of design and, ad the title says, its principles, Mustread.

Come da titolo spiega i principali concetti che stanno dietro alla teoria del design, Di lettura semplice ma efficace, consigliato a chiunque sia interessato di design senza necessariamente avere in mente una disciplina specifica, Good overview, and great pointers, Examples are good too, although sometimes a bit hard to get,
Some concepts overlap.
No recap of multiple principles on some examples, Could have been useful.
Markedprinciples that are essential to my jb as product manager, However, no big discoveries or true guidelines, Simply confirming what I observed already, The alphabetic, singlepagepertopic presentation kept the content simple enough for a wide audience to understand, but it also felt like a hindrance and perhaps the magic number of '' was also a contrivance, but maybe that's just coincidence.
Some of the entries felt like duplicates, using the same clip art as examples or the same phrasing between topics, Overall it felt like the book needed an editor to enforce better consistency after reading the various entries I could pick out the writing style of the three different authors.
Not bad, especially as a general overview of some common design issues for new designers, but to me it felt like it lacked depth on most of the topics.
Bonus points for the sidebar bibliography that came with most entries, though, I go back to this book again and again whenever I feel stalled out,

It's easy for design to get overwhelming or maybe that's just me, but, in any event, this book is a fantastic resource to page through when you have what I think of as the opposite of designer's block.
With so many innovations in programming, UX, design and information architecture coming out all of the time it's easy to lose a sense of how to make things just "feel right.
" This book is a great way to get back to the basics of semiotics and rediscover what intuitive, and usable really mean,

I agree that alphabetical may not be the best way to organize this kind of information if that's a dealbreaker for you check out sitelinkThings Every Designer Needs to Know about People but, given the illustrations and the physical structure of the book it's easy enough to breeze through and find those things you didn't even realize you were looking for.
This makes a great shorthand companion to many of the principles described more extensively in

sitelinkThe Design of Everyday Things, and, in my opinion, could even be a great coffeetable read.