100 Must Read Books on Web Designing

Web designing books offer a great way of learning and honestly at a much lower price. By reading a well-written and informative web designing book, one can obtain best practices and consume a huge amount of research in a relatively short amount of time.

Whether you want to pick up a new skill or simply browse some hard-copy beauty, we have got 100 must-read books on web designing for you. Of course, this list can give you an overview of the books available to you as a web designer. Scroll down to learn more.

Designing with the Mind in Mind

1. Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules

by Jeff Johnson

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Designing Web APIs: Building APIs That Developers Love

2. Designing Web APIs: Building APIs That Developers Love

by Brenda Jin, Saurabh Sahni & Amir Shevat

 

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A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences

3.  A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences

by Sarah Horton

 

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Designing Effective Web Surveys

4. Designing Effective Web Surveys

by Mick P. Couper PhD

 

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Designing Ux Forms Create Forms That Don't Drive Your Users Crazy

5. Designing Ux: Forms: Create Forms That Don’t Drive Your Users Crazy

by Jessica Enders

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Designing for the Social Web

6. Designing for the Social Web

by Joshua Porter

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Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions

7. Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions

by Bill Scott

 

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Designing Web Usability

8. Designing Web Usability

by Jakob Nielsen

 

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Interactive Data Visualization for the Web

9. Interactive Data Visualization for the Web

by Scott Murray

 

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Designing Web Navigation

10. Designing Web Navigation

by James Kalbach

 

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RESTful Java with JAX-RS 2.0

11. RESTful Java with JAX-RS 2.0

by Bill Burke

 

 

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Designing Interfaces

12. Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design

by Jenifer Tidwell

 

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications

13. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

by Martin Kleppmann

 

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Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET

14. Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET

by Glenn Block

 

 

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Designing the Editorial Experience: A Primer for Print, Web, and Mobile

15. Designing the Editorial Experience: A Primer for Print, Web, and Mobile

by Sue Apfelbaum

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Web Design for Dummies

16. Web Design for Dummies

by Lisa Lopuck

Our Rating: 3.34/5

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Product Design for the Web

17. Product Design for the Web

by Randy J. Hunt

Our Rating: 3.77/5

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Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites

18. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites

by Peter Morville

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The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

19. The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

by Jason Beaird

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Convert!: Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion

20. Convert!: Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion

by Ben Hunt

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Designing Web Graphics. 4

21. Designing Web Graphics. 4

by Linda Weinman

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Designing web

22. : Designing Web & Mobile Graphics: Fundamental Concepts for Web and Interactive Projects

by Christopher Schmitt

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Designing with Web Standards

23. Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition)

by Jeffrey Zeldman

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Designing web based training

24. Designing Web-Based Training

by William Horton

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Beginner's Guide to Web Designing with Google Sites

25. Beginner’s Guide to Web Designing with Google Sites

byTariku Tessema

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Irresistible APIs

26. Irresistible APIs

by Kirsten Hunter

Our Rating: 3.13/5

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Web Navigation: Designing the User Experience

27. Web Navigation: Designing the User Experience

by Jennifer Fleming

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emotionally intelligent design

28. Emotionally Intelligent Design

by Pamela Pavliscak

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Forms That Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability

29. Forms That Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability

by Caroline Jarrett

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Designing Interface Animation

30. Designing Interface Animation

by Val Head

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designing web secure

 

31. Designing Secure Web-Based Applications for Microsoft Windows 2000

by Michael Howard

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Designing for the Digital Age

32. Designing for the Digital Age

by Kim Goodwin

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Making the Web Work

33. Making the Web Work

by Bob Baxley

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Building Microservices

34. Building Microservices

by Sam Newman

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Usability for the web

35. Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work

by Tom Brinck

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Designing Ecommerce Websites

36. Designing Ecommerce Websites

by Matt Isherwood

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Master WordPress

37. Master WordPress Like A Boss: A Beginner’s Guide to Planning, Designing, and Creating Your Very Own Unique WordPress Website

by Dennis Lonmo

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The Non-Designer's Web Book

38. The Non-Designer’s Web Book

by Robin Williams

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Designing Connected Content

39. Designing Connected Content

by Carrie Hane

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Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design

40. Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design

by Robert Hoekman Jr

Our Rating: 4.01/5

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Wordpress for Beginners: A Step by Step Guide for Quickly and Easily Designing a Beautiful Website from Scratch in 2018

41. WordPress for Beginners: A Step by Step Guide for Quickly and Easily Designing a Beautiful Website from Scratch in 2018

by Tim Barnes

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Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web

42. Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web

By Hakon Wium Lie

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43. LEARN WEB DESIGNING AND BECOME PROFESSIONAL WEB DESIGNER

ROBERT PATTINSON

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Submit Now Designing Persuasive Web Sites

44. Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Web Sites

by Andrew Chak

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Designing Websites for Every Audience

45. Designing Websites for Every Audience

by Ilise Benun

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UX Research: Practical Techniques for Designing Better Products

46. UX Research: Practical Techniques for Designing Better Products

by Brad Nunnally

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Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action

47. Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action

by Robert Hoekman Jr

Our Rating: 3.88/5

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RESTful Java Web Services: A pragmatic guide to designing and building RESTful APIs using Java

48. RESTful Java Web Services: A pragmatic guide to designing and building RESTful APIs using Java

by Bogunuva Mohanram Balachandar

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Designing Voice User Interfaces: How to Create Engaging and Compelling Experiences

49. Designing Voice User Interfaces: How to Create Engaging and Compelling Experiences

by Cathy Pearl

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50. RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGNING PRINCIPLES AND IMPLEMENTATION WITHOUT USING FRAMEWORK OR GRID GENERATORS

ROBERT PATTINSON

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Designing with Progressive Enhancement: Building the Web that Works for Everyone

51. Designing with Progressive Enhancement: Building the Web that Works for Everyone

by Russ Unger

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Designing Bots: Creating Conversational Experiences

52. Designing Bots: Creating Conversational ExperiencesDesigning Bots

by Amir Shevat

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Designing Social Interfaces

53. Designing Social Interfaces

by Christian Crumlish

Our Rating: 3.87 /5

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Designing Web Pages with Cascading Style Sheets

54. Designing Web Pages with Cascading Style Sheets

by Joel Sklar

Our Rating: 4.25 /5

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Designing for Behavior Change: Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics

55. Designing for Behavior Change: Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics

by Stephen Wendel

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Mega Book of Website Designing

56. Mega Book of Website Designing

by Mahinroop PM

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Dreamweaver CS6 For Dummies

57. Dreamweaver CS6 For Dummies

by Janine Warner

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58. Designing Adaptive Virtual Worlds

by Ning Gu

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Designing the Internet of Things

59. Designing the Internet of Things

by Adrian McEwen

Our Rating: 3.84 /5

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Designing Products with Sound

60. Designing Products with Sound

by Amber Case

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Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed

61. Designing for Performance

by Lara Callender Hogan

 

Our Rating: 4.23 /5

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Wordpress: An Ultimate Guide To The Internet's Best Publishing Platform

62. WordPress: An Ultimate Guide To The Internet’s Best Publishing Platform

by Roger Phillips

 

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designing a webpage

63. Designing a WebPage using HTML Fundamentals

by Dr. Grace Capra

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Designing the Conversation

64. Designing the Conversation

by Russ Unger

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 Designing Across Senses

65. Designing Across Senses

by Christine W. Park

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Scalability Patterns: Best Practices for Designing High Volume Websites

66. Scalability Patterns: Best Practices for Designing High Volume Websites

by Chander Dhall

Our Rating: 4.33 /5

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A fast-paced, hands-on guide to designing and building scalable and maintainable web apps with React 16

67. React 16 Essentials

by Artemij Fedosejev

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68. Designing Delivery

by Jeff Sussna

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Interdisciplinary Interaction Design

69. Interdisciplinary Interaction Design: A Visual Guide to Basic Theories, Models and Ideas for Thinking and Designing for Interactive Web Design and Digital Device Experiences

by James Pannafino

 

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SAP Build: Prototyping and Design

70. SAP Build: Prototyping and Design

 

Dwayne DeSylvia

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Designing Distributed Systems

71. Designing Distributed Systems

by Brendan Burns

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Designing with JavaScript

72. Designing with JavaScript

Nick Heinle

Our Rating: 3.04 /5

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Designing for Interaction Creating Innovative Applications and Devices (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter

 

73. Designing for Interaction

by Dan Saffer

Our Rating: 3.92 /5

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Designing Data-Intensive Web Applications

74. Designing Data-Intensive Web Applications

by Stefano Ceri

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Designing Web Sites

75. Designing Web Sites

by Joel (Joel Sklar) Sklar

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Designing CSS Web Pages

76. Designing CSS Web Pages

by Christopher Schmitt

Our Rating: 3.41 /5

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Architecting Modern Java EE Applications

77. Architecting Modern Java EE Applications

by Sebastian Daschner

Our Rating: 3.22 /5

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HTML: Your Visual Blueprint for Designing Web Pages with HTML, CSS, and XHTML

78. HTML: Your Visual Blueprint for Designing Web Pages with HTML, CSS, and XHTML

by Paul Whitehead

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Designing Products People

79. Designing Products People

by Scott Hurff

Our Rating: 4.15 /5

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Practical Bot Development

80. Practical Bot Development

by Szymon Rozga

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Designing and Managing the Supply Chain 3e with Student CD

81. Designing and Managing the Supply Chain 3e with Student CD

by David Simchi-Levi

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82. HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your Visual Blueprint for Designing Effective Web pages HTML, XHTML, and CSS

by Rob Huddleston

Our Rating: 3.74 /5

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83. Designing with Data: Improving the User Experience with A/B Testing

by Rochelle King

 

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Designing Games

84. Designing Games

by Tynan Sylvester

Our Rating: 4.31 /5

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HTML5: Designing Rich Internet Applications

85. HTML5: Designing Rich Internet Applications

by Matthew David

Our Rating: 3.28/5

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Designing Better Maps

86. Designing Better Maps

Cynthia A. Brewer

Our Rating: 4.14 /5

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Designing for Emerging Technologies

87. Designing for Emerging Technologies

by Jonathan Follett

Our Rating: 3.83 /5

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Planning and Designing Effective Websites

88. Planning and Designing Effective Websites:

by Sue A. Conger

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How to Measure Digital Marketing

89. How to Measure Digital Marketing

by Laurent Flores

Our Rating: 3.50 /5

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Designing for Sustainability

90. Designing for Sustainability

by Tim Frick

Our Rating: 3.83 /5

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Adobe PageMill 3 f/x and Design

91. Adobe PageMill 3 f/x and Design

by Daniel Gray

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Designing SVG Web Graphics

92. Designing SVG Web Graphics

by Andrew H. Watt

Our Rating: 3 /5

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Designing Data Visualizations

93. Designing Data Visualizations

by Noah Iliinsky

Our Rating: 3.22 /5

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Designing and Building Security

94. Designing and Building Security Operations Center

by David Nathans

Our Rating: 3.11 /5

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95. Designing for Wearables

by Scott Sullivan

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96. Designing the User Interface

by Ben Shneiderman

Our Rating: 4 /5

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Designing Search

97. Designing Search

by Greg Nudelman

Our Rating: 4.02 /5

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Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience

98. Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience

by Jeff Gothelf

Our Rating: 3.95 /5

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PHP & MySQL: Server-side Web Development

99. PHP & MySQL

by Jon Duckett

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Designing for the Web

100. Designing for the Web: Getting Started in a New Medium

by Jennifer Niederst

Our Rating: 3.33 /5

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