Mike T. Henderson

Seeing .net Magazine's recent post on The Top 25 Books for Web Designers and Developers the other day, got me thinking about the goal I made in January to read one book per month this year and wondering if I'm still on pace. The last few months have been tricky for me to keep up with workloads and schedules, but I feel with a second wind this final month and a half, I'm hopeful I can get that 12th. As it currently stands, here's what I've read this past year:

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In January, I made a goal to read one book per month. I'm a bit behind on posting my book for the Month of April, but I swear I finished before the month was up.

The book I selected was How to Think Like A Great Graphic Designer.

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I just pre-ordered the book Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement by Aaron Gustafson, due to publish later this month.

The web is an ever-changing medium whose scope, application, audience and platform continue to grow on a daily basis. If you’ve worked on the web for any amount of time, you’ve likely heard or even used the term “progressive enhancement.” Since the term’s inception, it has been considered a best practice for approaching web design. But what is it really? And how do we reconcile its meaning with the rapid evolution of the languages and browsers we rely on to do our jobs?

It's been a good past couple years for books geared toward web design, and this seems to be yet another solid read to add to that collection.

Continuing my goal to read one book per month, my book for March was Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation.

The premise of the book is that in environments where good ideas are often generated, there are patterns that recur over and over again. The book takes a very scientific look at 7 specific patterns that contribute in creative innovation: The Adjacent Possible, Liquid Networks, The Slow Hunch, Serendipity, Error, Exaptation, and Platforms.

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Below is a list of my favorite reads and resources from the week that was March 14th-18th.

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Still sticking with my new years resolution to read one book per month, I just recently finished reading Hardboiled Web Design, by Andy Clarke, over the weekend.

From the book's web page:

Hardboiled Web Design is for people who want to understand why, when and how to use the latest HTML5 and CSS3 technologies in their everyday work. Not tomorrow or next week, but today.

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I might have just found a new favorite site: Designers & Books.

Designers & Books is devoted to publishing lists of books that esteemed members of the design community identify as personally important, meaningful, and formative—books that have shaped their values, their worldview, and their ideas about design.

Such a great idea, this site. I'm particularly interested in the book lists of designers such as George Lois and Milton Glaser. Always fascinated to see what makes designers tick.

I'm a little late to the party on goodreads, but I'm finally set up and managing all my reads there. I figure this can be a nice way for me to log my "read 1 book a month" new years resolution. (which, by the way, is still going well; 80% though Hardboiled Web Design by Andy Clarke.)

If you want to keep tabs on what I'm reading, or suggest some good books to me, click on this link here --> Mike's goodreads.

Below is a list of my favorite reads and resources from the week that was Jan 17th-21st.

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Below is a list of my favorite reads and resources from the week that was Jan 10th-14th.

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