New Riders imprint: 313 books

Talent Is Not Enough

Business Secrets For Designers

by Shel Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010

The best business guide for design professionals just got better! This revised and expanded second edition includes everything designers need—besides talent—to turn their artistic success into business success. You’ll find information on key issues facing designers from freelancing to managing...

How to Get People to Do Stuff

Master the art and science of persuasion and motivation

by Susan Weinschenk
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013

We all want people to do stuff. Whether you want your customers to buy from you, vendors to give you a good deal, your employees to take more initiative, or your spouse to make dinner—a large amount of everyday is about getting the people around you to do stuff. Instead of using your usual tactics...
by Wendy Despain
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012

Game designers spend their lives solving extraordinary problems and facing mind-bending paradoxes. It’s their job to make a meticulous plan for “spontaneous fun” players will want to experience over and over again. Pressure is heaped on with demands for innovation and blockbuster status. So designers...

Ambigrams Revealed

A Graphic Designer's Guide To Creating Typographic Art Using Optical Illusions, Symmetry, and Visual Perception

by Nikita Prokhorov
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013

Typography, when coupled with unbridled creativity, craftsmanship, and obsession, can take the mesmerizing form of an ambigram. Ambigrams are typographic designs that combine optical illusion, symmetry, and visual perception. The resulting word or phrase can be read in any number of orientations, viewpoints,...

Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations

Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations

by Garr Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009

In his internationally acclaimed, best-selling book Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery, presentation master Garr Reynolds gave readers the framework for planning, putting together, and delivering successful presentations. Now, he takes us further into the design realm...

Creative Boot Camp

Generate Ideas in Greater Quantity and Quality in 30 days

by Stefan Mumaw
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012

Creative Boot Camp is a 30-day creative training program that will increase the quantity and quality of your ideas. The book begins by exploring what creativity is and isn't, how we can train ourselves to improve our own ideation, and what steps we need to take to generate more ideas and better ideas...

Designing Together

The collaboration and conflict management handbook for creative professionals

by Dan M. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013

WHAT IS THE ONE THING not taught in design school, but is an essential survival skill for practicing designers? Working with other people. And yet, in every project, collaboration with other people is often the most difficult part. The increasing complexity of design projects, the greater...

Burn Your Portfolio

Stuff they don't teach you in design school, but should

by Michael Janda
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013

It takes more than just a design school education and a killer portfolio to succeed in a creative career. Burn Your Portfolio teaches the real-world practices, professional do's and don'ts, and unwritten rules of business that most designers, photographers, web designers, copy writers, programmers, and...

Web Design for ROI

Turning Browsers into Buyers & Prospects into Leads

by Lance Loveday, Sandra Niehaus
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2007

Your web site is a business—design it like one.Billions of dollars in spending decisions are influenced by web sites. So why aren't businesses laser-focused on designing their sites to maximize their Return on Investment (ROI)? Web design can do more than make a site look good—it can be a powerful...

The Design Method

A Philosophy and Process for Functional Visual Communication

by Eric Karjaluoto
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013

Feeling uninspired? That shouldn’t keep you from creating great design work. Design is not about luck, inspiration, or personal expression. Design is a disciplined pursuit aimed at producing sensible, functional work for clients. In The Design Method, you’ll learn how to create quality design work...

Designing the Conversation

Techniques for Successful Facilitation

by Russ Unger, Brad Nunnally, Dan Willis
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013

Facilitation skills are the foundation of every successful design practice, yet training on this core competency has been largely unavailable—until now. Designing the Conversation: Techniques for Successful Facilitation is a complete guide to developing the facilitation skills you need to communicate...

Speaker Camp

A Self-paced Workshop for Planning, Pitching, Preparing, and Presenting at Conferences

by Russ Unger, Samantha Starmer
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013

Are you interested in getting out of the audience observing and onto the stage sharing your thoughts, ideas, and experience with the world? If so, Speaker Camp is for you!  Russ Unger and Samantha Starmer are seasoned and popular presenters at venues such as South by Southwest, and numerous other...

Interface Design for Learning

Design Strategies for Learning Experiences

by Dorian Peters
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013

In offices, colleges, and living rooms across the globe, learners of all ages are logging into virtual laboratories, online classrooms, and 3D worlds. Kids from kindergarten to high school are honing math and literacy skills on their phones and iPads. If that weren’t enough, people worldwide are...

Experience Required

How to become a UX leader regardless of your role

by Robert Hoekman Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015

For all the resources on great design, there is almost nothing on how to be a great design professional. For all the schools and classes and workshops on what constitutes a good user experience, there is not one bit of formalized education on how to earn the respect of your team and get your recommendations...
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