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Refactoring UI ★
Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger
A field manual written for developers who design and designers who code. Every chapter is a small, ruthlessly specific tactic — exactly the kind of thing the rest of the design canon refuses to talk about.
The book I quote most often in reviews. Specific, opinionated, and short. Spacing in powers of a base, type colour by adjusting saturation not just lightness, contrast as a hierarchy tool rather than a beauty move.
What I like about it is the honesty of the format. It does not pretend to teach taste. It hands you a list of moves that compound into something that looks considered.
A great gift for any engineer who has just been asked to "make it look nicer."