Where can I get literature on website design?

Question

Books

Oh, now would be cool literature or articles on website design, something on the compatibility of colors, fonts. In general, to read the book, and began to draw the most beautiful layouts in PHOTOSHOP'e.
PS I'm a coder

Answer 1

All you need to be a web designer is to be a coder. All existing books on this topic are rooted in the subjectivity of the individual. From a practical point of view, they are useless.
The algorithm is like this. You think about the design, you open Photoshop, you think "now it will be awesome", you get clumsy crap. So five or six times. For the seventh time, it turns out not what I wanted, but nice. And if you are persistent enough and repeat this from time to time, then in the end this algorithm will turn into: You think about the design, open Photoshop, you think “now it will be awesome”, the output is awesome and the way you wanted. And sometimes not the way I wanted, but still fucking awesome.
Everything. There is no other way.
If you are not a coder and have drawn a beautiful picture, then I am almost 100% sure that in the browser it will either look terrible, or it simply cannot be used. Or you may not know layout, but you have a good friend or colleague, an experienced layout designer who will tell you what is possible and what is not, then this option is acceptable.
Also, I want to note that often the design is done bypassing Photoshop.

Answer 2

I think you should study the book "Web Design by Jakob Nielsen: Don't Make Me Think!"
She is eternal.

Answer 3

As for me, it’s better to focus on literature on UX and UI, you can also read about the psychology of buyers, and don’t forget about tips from goodui.org .

Answer 4

If you are a coder, you should know that you do not need this. Choose for yourself a group of sites with the design you like, with the functionality you like. See how it all works and analyze. It's better than literature. It may be needed only in case of picking up terminology, or some non-trivial chips that most likely will not work in your hands.

Answer 5

Many answer about the layout, the author of the topic seems to want to make fashionable design layouts, regardless of the layout.
Where to get literature? It's like you're behind a Chinese wall :D Either on ozones, or on well-known sites (God forbid they don't get sick).
IMHO: today the books are an addition, not a primary source; (not always, but) often lose to video courses. In vidyushki (good) infa compressed, specific, better absorbed. Articles yes, just subscribe to the mailing lists of popular web resources (if English does not bother you). For example:
https://medium.com/@erikdkennedy/7-rules-for-creat...
https://medium.com/@erikdkennedy/7-rules-for-creat...
Good general design course on Codeschool (I can throw off).
Perhaps the most correct thing is to fill your eyes (dribbble, behance, etc.). View layouts, save your favorites. First "steal" ideas. For standard landings, it’s enough to see enough examples and get your hands on it.
P / s there really is no such one book. you can remember the "classics" and apply Helvetica Neue and complementary colors everywhere, but you will immediately be told that this is stereotyped and not creative. Experiment.

Answer 6

I am a designer.
Recent projects, we stop drawing site layouts.
We make an approximate layout - one piece.
Based on the layout, then basic things are created, such as:
- grid and padding;
- headers;
- text blocks;
- Pictures;
- forms;
- etc.
And already from all this we create larger elements, and only then pages and all that.
Immediately the design is drawn by layout, adaptation is immediately made, and you can immediately evaluate it. It is important that a lot of unnecessary pictures disappear.
We open Photoshop or illustrator, only for relatively small (or just small) site modules.
(perhaps I have not come across this, but it seems to me that this way there is no need to make prototypes in all kinds of axure)
I try to adhere to the "atom-molecule-block-page" methodology. it turns out not always to follow this principle, but I think with experience you can improve it or try a different methodology.
--this approach is good for sites without "flying elves", just sites with some simple interface that you can use.
For "flying elves" -- of course I'll open photoshop, flash, aftereffects or something else.
(I mean, a ton of layouts that, after the completion of the project, will sink into oblivion. This is an attempt to get away from one of the stages of work so that the design could be clicked immediately.)
Books:
Edward Tufte:envisioninginformation.daiquiri.ru
Kondinsky - "Point. Line. Plane."
Josef Müller-Brockmann - Modular systems in
kak.ru layout - good things can be found there, especially if you googling, but the site itself is hard to read unless you press "ctr+", which kind of surprises me :-)

Answer 7

Well, I'm not a designer, but it's probably good to read Lebed's guide. Know what a modular grid and the golden ratio are. As a coder, I think this is enough. The whole essence of layout is to make it as close to the layout as possible, observing all intervals and distances, cross-browser and as valid as possible. The firebug and pixel perfect plugins are a must have. But then again, I'm NOT a designer. A layout designer needs to develop not in design, but in front-end programming, IMHO, so you need to start learning different js and css frameworks and libraries (jquery, mootools, bootstrap, less, etc.)

Answer 8

Hey! I post a lot of useful literature!
https://www.facebook.com/vomarba.designer?pnref=lhc

Answer 9

Necroposting of course, and possibly offtopic. But for the selection of color combinations, I use palettes from colorlovers.com and such a tool here www.colourlovers.com/copaso/ColorPaletteSoftware
By itself - not a designer