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• Responsive Web Design for Libraries: A LITA Guide (Chicago: ALA TechSource, 2014), by Matthew Reidsma (PDF at gvsu.edu)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed (2014), by Lara Callender Hogan (illustrated HTML with commentary at designingforperformance.com)
• Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences With Progressive Enhancement (first edition, c2011), by Aaron Gustafson, contrib. by Jeffrey Zeldman (illustrated HTML with commentary at adaptivewebdesign.info)
• Web Style Guide (third edition, 2008), by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton (illustrated HTML at webstyleguide.com)
• Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application (2006), by 37signals (Firm) (HTML with commentary at 37signals.com)
• Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing (electronic edition, revised 2003), by Philip Greenspun (HTML at greenspun.com)
• Building Accessible Websites (online edition; originally published 2002), by Joe Clark (HTML with commentary at joeclark.org)
• Real World Adobe GoLive 6 (2002), by Jeff Carlson and Glenn Fleishman (illustrated HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Web Style Guide (second edition, 2002), by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton (HTML at webstyleguide.com)
• Database Backed Web Sites (electronic edition, 1997), by Philip Greenspun (HTML at greespun.com)
• The Elements of Content Strategy (New York: A Book Apart, c2011), by Erin Kissane (HTML with commentary at abookapart.com)
• Digital Foundations (electronic "flossified" edition, 2009), by Xtine Burrough and Michael Mandiberg (multiple formats at flossmanuals.net)
• Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite (working version, 2009), by Xtine Burrough and Michael Mandiberg (illustrated HTML at digital-foundations.net)
• PHP 5 Power Programming (Indianapolis: Prentice-Hall, c2005), by Andi Gutmans, Stig Sæther Bakken, and Derick Rethans (PDF at pearsoncmg.com)
• Design for Real Life (c2016), by Eric A. Meyer and Sara Wachter-Boettcher (illustrated HTML with commentary at dfrlbook.com)
• Electronic Engagement: A Guide for Public Sector Managers (2007), by Peter John Chen (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Dot-Font: Talking About Design (text-only version; originally published 2006), by John D. Berry (multiple formats with commentary at dot-font.com)
• Perl for the Web (2001), by Chris Radcliff (HTML with commentary at globalspin.com)
• Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines (electronic edition), by United States Department of Health and Human Services and United States General Services Administration (PDF files at usability.gov)
• Building Secure Microsoft ASP.NET Applications: Authentication, Authorization, and Secure Communication, by J. D. Meier, Alex Mackman, Michael Dunner, and Srinath Vasireddy (frame-dependent HTML at Microsoft)
• Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS, by Jonathan Snook (multiple formats with commentary at smacss.com)
• Creating Applications With Mozilla (electronic edition), by David Boswell, Brian King, Brian Oeschger, Pete Collins, and Eric Murphy (HTML at mozdev.org)

• Weave: Journal of Library User Experience (2014-) (full serial archives)

• Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines (electronic edition), by United States Department of Health and Human Services and United States General Services Administration (PDF files at usability.gov)

• Teaching Tech Together: How to Create and Deliver Lessons That Work and Build a Teaching Community Around Them (free online editions in English and Spanish; c2019), by Greg Wilson (illustrated HTML with commentary at teachtogether.tech)

• Real World Adobe GoLive 6 (2002), by Jeff Carlson and Glenn Fleishman (illustrated HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• The Shape of Design (c2012), by Frank Chimero (multiple formats with commentary at shapeofdesignbook.com)
• Creative Chaos (second edition; Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2021), ed. by Drew Davidson (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving (free online edition, ca. 2012), by Jon Kolko (illustrated HTML with commentary at wickedproblems.com)
• Dynamarhythmic Design: A Book of Structural Pattern (New York: The Century Co., 1932), by Edward B. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bases of Design (second edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1902), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Theory of Pure Design: Harmony, Balance, Rhythm (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1907), by Denman Waldo Ross
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Manual of Design, Compiled from the Writings and Addresses of Richard Redgrave (New York: Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong, ca. 1876), by Richard Redgrave, ed. by G. R. Redgrave (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of Design, Complied from the Writings and Addresses of Richard Redgrave (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, 1876), by Richard Redgrave, ed. by G. R. Redgrave (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Digital Foundations (electronic "flossified" edition, 2009), by Xtine Burrough and Michael Mandiberg (multiple formats at flossmanuals.net)
• Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite (working version, 2009), by Xtine Burrough and Michael Mandiberg (illustrated HTML at digital-foundations.net)

• De L'Enseignement du Dessin, Sous le Point de Vue Industriel (in French; Paris: Giroux, et al., 1836), by Alexandre Dupuis (multiple formats at Google)

• Design Quarterly (partial serial archives)
• Design (British industrial design magazine, online issues 1965-1974) (partial serial archives)

• Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Sasha Costanza-Chock (illustrated HTML with commentary at pubpub.org)
• Callous Objects: Designs Against the Homeless (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), by Robert Rosenberger (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Toward a Ludic Architecture: The Space of Play and Games (text-only version; c2010), by Steffen P. Walz (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Why Architects Draw (with new preface; originally c1994), by Edward Robbins (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• In What Style Should We Build? The German Debate on Architectural Style (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1992), ed. by Wolfgang Herrmann, contrib. by Heinrich Hübsch, Rudolf Wiegmann, Carl Albert Rosenthal, Karl Bötticher, and Johann Heinrich Wolff (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• The Study of Architectural Design, With Special Reference to the Program of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design (New York: Pencil Points Press, 1926), by John F. Harbeson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ready to Share: Fashion and the Ownership of Creativity (conference transcript, ca. 2005) (PDF at learcenter.org)
• Art in Dress (New York: P. C. Brown, c1922), by P. Clement Brown (page images at Wisconsin)

• Color and Design in Apparel (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1945), by Bernice Gertrude Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Anarchist's Design Book (expanded edition; Covington, KY: Lost Art Press, c2019), by Christopher Schwarz, illust. by Briony Morrow-Cribbs (PDF at lostartpress.com)
• The Anarchist's Workbench (Covington, KY: Lost Art Press, c2020), by Christopher Schwarz (PDF with commentary at lostartpress.com)

• The Vignelli Canon (ca. 2008), by Massimo Vignelli (PDF at vignelli.com)
• The Art of Spacing: A Treatise on the Proper Distribution of White Space in Typography (Chicago: Inland Printer, 1926), by Samuel A. Bartels (multiple formats at Google)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.