One of mine I taught a university course with, the psychology of perception. Not an easy read, the students hated me, but some understood what Gibson was on about. Deeply radical thought. Gibson once said psychology was a second rate discipline because it didn’t stand in awe of its subject matter. So true<p>Book: Edward S. Reed
James J. Gibson and the Psychology of Perception (Yale)
Based in part off Gibson's work, there's also <i>The Design of Everyday Things</i> by Donald Norman. First published as <i>Psychology of Everyday Things</i> in '88, it's arguable whether it counts as "older" but seems pretty timeless conceptually, even if the specific examples may become dated.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things</a><p>Edit: Oh, yeah. How about Tufte ('83 for Visual Display of Quantitative Information) and Albers (Interaction of Color in '63). I should think first, <i>then</i> post.