As a designer, your general knowledge of the world is as important as your general knowledge of the design practices. In order to understand how users make decisions, one should consider the various approaches to making decisions in architecture, politics, economics and social structures. This list of open-source tools can help you on your journey of interdisciplinary learning.

Architecture and Art

• Theory of City Form, MIT

• Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Oxford University
  

Culture and Philosophy

• Foundations of American Cyberculture, University of California, Berkeley

• Introduction to Visual Thinking, University of California, Berkeley

• Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, University of Norte Dame

• Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love, University of Norte Dame

• Everything I Know by Buckminster Fuller
  

Economics

• Inside Statistics, Harvard

• Behavioral Finance, University of Western Sydney

• Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform, Yale

• Case Studies in Economic Development, UC Berkeley

• Crisis, Globalization and Economics, Harvard

• Economic Micro-Analysis, UC Berkeley

• Economics Geography of the Industrial World, UC Berkeley

• Finance Theory, MIT

• Game Theory, Yale

• Lectures on Human Capital, University of Chicago

• Principles of Macroeconomics, Missouri State University
  

Psychology and Anthropology

• Psychology and Economics, UC Berkeley

• Philosophy in Film, MIT

• Science, Magic and Religion, UCLA

• Darwin and Design, MIT

• The Art of Living, Stanford

• Game Design, MIT

• The Interview

• Introduction to the Science or Nonviolence

• The Invention of the Modern World, Cambridge University

• Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology, Arizona State University

• Evolution, Ecology and Behavior, Yale

• Growing Up in the Universe, Oxford

• Health and Culture, Arizona State University