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A comment on Ask HN: Recommend some good books for a dev with no design background?.

Re:Ask HN: Recommend some good books for a dev with no desig... by Ernestas on Friday October 01, 2010 @05:25PM (#1748826)
The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice - Outlines the essentials of page layout, emphasizing the four concrete principles of design--proximity, alignment, repetition, and contrast
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Re:Ask HN: Recommend some good books for a dev with no desig... by blahblahblah on Friday October 01, 2010 @07:54PM (#1749232)
I'll second that recommendation. It's such a quick read and yet so incredibly insightful. The same author also wrote a sequel to the book intended specifically for the web. I haven't read her web design book, but if it's anything like the original I'm sure it's a valuable addition to any web designer's library.

In addition, I'd recommend: "The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems" by Raskin

and

"User and Task Analysis for Interface Design" by Hackos and Redish

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