Free Essential Books for Unicorn Designers

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Designing for the Web

Mark Boulton

Designing for the web is different than designing for any other medium. The breadth of skills required is sometimes daunting.

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Save the Pixel

Ben Hunt

It really is the manual for minimalist web design, and has proved an invaluable resource for designers and developers.

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Practical Typography

Matthew Butterick

This book is about making you a better typographer. And if you’re wondering “what’s in it for me?”, you’re in the right place

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Startup Playbook

Sam Altman

To have a successful startup, you need: a great idea, a great market, a great team, a great product, and great execution

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Resilient Web Design

Jeremy Keith

This is not a handbook. It’s more like a history book.

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Principles of Product Design

Aarron Walter

Discover foundational practices for designing better products, featuring insights and interviews with the world's leading designers.

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CSS Animation 101

Donovan

This book gives you a solid intruction to the topic, combining theory with practical lessons

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Enterprise Design Sprints

Richard Banfield

A simple, timeboxed problem-solving framework for product teams to get answers quickly and effectively

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Design Workflow With Sketch

Clark Wimberly

Learn how to use Sketch to accelerate and perfect your design workflow

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Fundamental UI Design

Jane Portman

Learn fundamental UI design skills you need to create perfect screens by Jane Portman

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Bonsai x InVision Guide to Freelancing

Bonsai

This free ebook will guide you through the ins and outs of starting and growing a successful freelance career

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Making a Product Designer

Scott Hurff

Learn the technical skills and thought patterns it takes to design amazing products

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Việtnamese Typography

Donny Truong

Provide more useful information, supply more illustrations, and feature new typefaces that support the Vietnamese language.

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The Growth Handbook

Intercom

A collection of tested frameworks and invaluable lessons from industry leaders who have grown businesses from $0 to many billions in revenue

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Design Process for Pros

netguru

A free resource that will help you understand the design process and improve the quality of your work

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HTML5 & CSS3 for the Real World: 2nd Edition

Alexis Goldstein , Louis Lazaris , Estelle Weyl

You’ll master the semantic markup available in HTML5, and discover how to use CSS3 to create amazing-looking websites

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The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, 3rd Edition

Jason Beaird, James Michael George

Easy-to-follow guide that will lead you through the process of creating great designs from start to finish

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Principles of UX Design

Timothy Embretson

Discover how and why you should become a UX champion in this free e-course

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CSS Optimization Basics

Jens Oliver Meiert

CSS Optimization Basics covers the necessary mindsets, discusses the main optimization methods, and presents useful resources to write higher quality CSS.

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Understanding Flexbox

Ohans Emmanuel

It’s time to embrace a cleaner modern syntax for crafting intelligent layouts. Welcome the CSS Flexbox model.

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Web Visual Effects With CSS3

Thomas Mak

This is a book with examples and solutions to create practical visual effects on web by using CSS3

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Pro Git

Scott Chacon and Ben Straub

You’ll learn how to master the world of distributed version workflow, use the distributed features of Git to the full, and extend Git to meet your every need

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