Start with "The Non-Designer's Design Book" by Robin Williams
<a href="http://amzn.com/0321534042" rel="nofollow">http://amzn.com/0321534042</a><p>You can devour that book in an afternoon.<p>And since Typography is such an important part of design. You should read this blog post here:
<a href="http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/the-web-is-all-about-typography-period/" rel="nofollow">http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/the-web-is-all-about-...</a><p>and:<p>The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
<a href="http://webtypography.net/" rel="nofollow">http://webtypography.net/</a>
Lesson 1:<p>Get a big stack of paper, pencils, pens, tracing paper, markers, erasers. Start drawing. Print out stuff you like. Put tracing paper on top and redraw it. Draw every day.
Forget books, forget tutorials forget everything.<p>Take a problem in mind.
A sheet and pencil.
Now solve it there.<p>Problem can be categorizing different things, making something easier to do. Building something remarkable.<p>Design is not how it looks, it is how it works with everything.<p>Rest will come later.