Several weeks ago we published a post that told you about 10 free online books for web designers. We received lots of positive feedback from many of our readers who appreciated the great information, but one common question was, “Is there a PDF version?”. It turns out people really like their PDF’s, but unfortunately, that group of free books only had online HTML versions. So I set out on a quest to find more free books for web designers, but this time I made sure each had a PDF version.
The following ten books contain a wide variety of valuable information for web designers, ranging from HTML5 to a guide for managing your time. There’s plenty here to keep you busy reading for a while. Enjoy!
Introduction to Good Usability
This guide is especially handy if you haven’t done a lot of webdesign yet or if you are involved in webdesign but don’t do any of the real work. I hope to shed some light on some common interface elements and mistakes people often make with them.
How To Be Creative
If you’ve ever felt the draw to do something creative but just haven’t been able to pull it together, you’ll love this manifesto. Hugh MacLeod, an advertising executive and popular blogger with a flair for the creative, gives his 26 tried-and-true tips for being truly creative. Each point illustrated by a cartoon drawn by the author himself.
Why design?
What designers offer to clients is a way of thinking. The “Why design?” booklet outlines the role of design in business strategy. It seeks a common framework for why design adds value to clients’ interests.
The Design Funnel: A Manifesto for Meaningful Design
Would you like a process which would help translate the often vague, unclear wishes of your clients (and yourself, for that matter) into a clear and solid basis for your design? This manifesto will show you how.
HTML5 Quick Learning Guide
This guide introduces you to just the main elements of HTML5 that you’ll probably want to use right away. This guide is for those who want to get the basics figured out first, and worry about the finer details later on.
Time Management for Creative People
Written by Mark McGuinness, this e-book serves as a guide for creative people to help them be more productive and better manage their time.
The Woork Handbook
The Woork Handbook is a free eBook about CSS, HTML, Ajax, web programming, Mootools, Scriptaculous and other topics about web design… directly from Woork!
Eloquent JavaScript
Eloquent JavaScript is a digital book providing a comprehensive introduction (tutorial) to the JavaScript programming language. Apart from a bookful of text, it contains plenty of example programs, and an environment to try them out and play with them.
A Concise Guide to Archiving for Designers
This guide provides designers with the proper ways to store and describe their collections in 10 short chapters. The author, Karin van der Heiden, provided the translation.
Type Classification
This book has been made to help you learn the 10 broad classifications of type. These are the basic foundations of what you need to learn to learn typography and it is essential for any designer to know how to classify type.
cool stuff.. thanks for sharing this.
So much for buying design books on Amazon!
Wow Good resource did not know we could get such good design ebooks for free 😉 Thanks for sharing
Wow!! Thanks alot for sharing. Will download it one by one. 😀
Hey, thanks for taking the time to find these ebooks out and share them with us! I’ve been looking for a good book on HTML5 for some time and hopefully I don’t need to look anymore. I cant wait to get stuck in and get up to speed with the not to distant future for web designers/developers. Thanks once again for sharing.
Yes….agreed same here. Thanks for the share!
Great list! Already RTed it. Thanks for sharing!
Gut!
A great help for web designers from across the globe………..
Great collection! I checked out the previous list “10 Free Online Books” as well. Weird that it’s so timely. Just this morning, I was trying to think of ways I can buy a book on web design. This solves it.
useful ebooks.
Great list, thanks!
Very good, thanks!
Thanks for the share! I’ll be sure to read up on some of these ebooks on my spare time.
Great post, I hope I can make some time to read the all!
A great selection of useful e-books. Thankyou.
Thank you for sharing this fantastic list. So very useful, I’m definitely going to look into them.
Great list! Now to find enough time to read all of them… Thank you!
Awesome!
The HTML 5 e-book is great, i’ve been meaning to learn the HTML5 basics for a while.
Awesome list, thanks so much.
Great set of e-books, thanks for posting them. Time management always a problem for me.
Brilliant, some really good links there!
I’ll give the HTML 5 one a go!
Thanks a ton………… Hope to C many more additions to this post.
wow! great collections thanks
What’s so great about the HTML5 book. It’s 6 pages long, which in my opinion, doesn’t qualify as a “book”. It doesn’t say much at all. I just don’t get why others are saying this is great.
Thanks so much.
My choice for today is: HTML5 Quick Learning Guide.
I think it’s going to be a good way, to see what all that html5 is about.
Cheers.
Nice one, these books are really helpful… downloaded woork’s ebook now.
Great post,
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Thanks for sharing. It’s free and great! 😀
many thanks for these books, gonna get print and start read. useful for biginers
This stuff is gold.
The only one i have already is the woork handbook. If the rest as as good as that i will be very happy.
Downloading now 🙂
Thanks a lot for info about these free ebooks. Keep up the good work!
Wow! Great collection covering very important areas of Web Design, and free to boot, Thanks!
Thanks for the tips.
Sharing is Caring 🙂
Fantastic collection of Ebooks for web designers! Will be looking at Eloquent JavaScript first, Thank you!
Thanks! great good stuff!
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Thanks for this ebook collection !
Heard about the 10 free ebooks, so had to check them out and I’m extremely impressed, Great collection! Cheers!
What an awesome post, thanks so much. Going to check a few of these out
Sweeeet, some epic links there! Does anyone know any good SEO Ebooks?
peace
Real Real Real good stuff…. Exactly what i was looking for… thanks
Found the html5 and time management the most useful.
Time Management for Creative People – this suggests I am not the only one that is looking into project managing my creativity! A good start.
Already reading the section on Prioritise ‘important but not urgent’ work.
I’ll be interested to learn about how to select which priority is the priority.
Great! Where there’s a will, there’s a way!