If you're looking for architecture-inspired design manifestos for web and software design, check out A Pattern Language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern

If you're looking for architecture-inspired design manifestos for web and software design, check out A Pattern Language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_language The ideas in that book helped create the notion of "design patterns" in software and engineering. The book provides hundreds of insights into the way people use their environment: marriage beds, child caves, dancing in the streets, staircases as stages, sleeping in public, spaces for self-governance... Pattern Language is a more humanizing design philosophy than Bauhaus. It brings the emotional and sociological aspects of design together with technological complexity. The concepts of vocabulary, syntax and grammar are applicable to programming language and API design, as well as visual design and architecture.