- Biomimetics for Designers: Applying Nature's Processes and Materials in the Real World
- Canadian Copyright: Industrial Design Benchbook
- CORE77 (Blog dedicated to the practice of Industrial Design)
- Guide to Industrial Design (Canadian Intellectual Property Office)
- Industrial Design Reader
- Interactive Design: An Introduction to the Theory and Application of User-Centered Design
- Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual CultureProduct Experience
- Materials selection in Mechanical Design
- Measure of Man and Woman: Human Factors in Design
- Recalls.gov (U.S. government recalls of unsafe, hazardous, or defective products)
- Sketching: Drawing Techniques for Product Designers
- Standards: Recipes for Reality
- Universal Principles of Design: 125 ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design
- World Design Organization
- Art & Architecture Complete (Includes industrial design literature)
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (Includes interior design and urban design/planning literature)
- Berg Fashion Library (Design, fashion, and life style literature)
- Business Source Complete (Business, manufacturing, production and operations management)
- Derwent Innovations Index (International patent information)
- Design and Applied Arts Index (Core industrial design literature)
- EI Engineering Village (Industrial design related applied engineering literature)
- Ergonomics Abstracts (Anthropometric and ergonomics literature)
- Factiva (Business news including product information)
- IEEE Xplore Digital Library (Industrial design related electronics and computers science literature)
- Knovel Library (Applied engineering handbooks and dictionaries)
- Material ConneXion (New and innovative materials)
- National Rehabilitation Information Center (Disabilities and rehabilitation literature)
- PubMed (Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest free medical library)
- Scopus (Multidisciplinary abstract and citation database)
- Taylor & Francis Journals Online (Design, fashion, communication and cultural studies literature)
- Vogue Archive (Cover-to-cover reproduction, including advertisements)
- Web of Science (Multidisciplinary abstract and citation database)
- Anthropometric Standards: An Interactive Nutritional Reference of Body Size and Body Composition for Children and Adults
- Anthropometry: Apparel Sizing and Design
- Anthropometry Research (A major producer of anthropometric studies)
- ANSUR (U.S. Army Anthropometry Survey)
- AnthroSources (Resource material for anthropometry)
- ASTM International Standards Worldwide (Includes body measurement standards)
- Conceptual Foundations of Human Factors Measurement
- Ergonomics Abstracts (Anthropometric and ergonomics literature)
- Human Dimension & Interior Space
- Handbook of Physical Measurements (Core textbook on measurement)
- Human Ergonomics (Occupational ergonomics and ergonomics research)
- Humanscale (Furniture and bioengineering standards)
- ISO 7250: Basic Human Body Measurements for Technological Design
- TRID (Transportation research including ergonomics literature)
- Color Design Workbook
- Colour Hunting: How Colour influences what we Buy, Make and Feel
- Pattern + Palette Sourcebook 4: A Comprehensive Guide to Choosing the Perfect Color and Pattern in Design
- Pantone Color Specifier
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PsycINFO (Psychology and the behavioural sciences, including psychology of colour)
- How to Assess a Journal for Publication
- 7 Steps to a Comprehensive Literature Review: A Multimodal & Cultural Approach
- Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials
- Design Research through Practice: From the Lab, Field, and Showroom
- Directory of Open Access Journals (Indexes high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals)
- Dissertations and Theses Global (Indexes North American graduate and doctoral theses)
- Doing Research in Design
- Evaluating Research: Methodology for People who need to read Research
- Foreign Doctoral Dissertations (Indexes non-North American graduate and doctoral theses)
- Quantitative Research for the Qualitative Researcher
- Research for Designers: A Guide to Methods and Practice
- Research Methods for Product Design
- Sage Handbook of Interview Research: The Complexity of the Craft
- Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research
- Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials
