General Design category: 1730 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
The management of design has emerged as central to the operational and strategic options of any successful organization. The Handbook of Design Management presents a state of the art overview of the subject - its methodologies, current debates, history and future.
The Handbook covers the breadth...
Open Design and Innovation
Facilitating Creativity in Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Open innovation, crowd sourcing, democratised innovation, vernacular design and brand fanaticism are amongst a handful of new approaches to design and innovation that have generated discussion and media coverage in recent years. In practice, these ideas are often inspiring propositions rather than...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Designing Cultures of Care brings together an international selection of design researchers who, through a variety of design approaches, are exploring the ways in which design intersects with cultures of care.
Unique in its focus and disciplinary diversity, this edited collection develops an...
Emotional Design
Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
Why attractive things work better and other crucial insights into human-centered design
Emotions are inseparable from how we humans think, choose, and act. In Emotional Design, cognitive scientist Don Norman shows how the principles of human psychology apply to the invention and design of new...
Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated
125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions,
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Whether a marketing campaign or a museum exhibit, a video game or a complex control system, the design we see is the culmination of many concepts and practices brought together from a variety of disciplines. Because no one can be an expert on everything, designers have always had to scramble to find...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
"Provides definitive guidelines on all aspects of the graphic design business."-FYI. * Newly revised and expanded version of an industry classic--5,000 sold! * Up-to-the-minute! Includes web, interactive, and green design, new legislation * Each chapter written by an authority on the subject. Here’s...
Design Literacy
Understanding Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Author and design expert Steven Heller has revisited and revised the popular classic Design Literacy by revising many of the thoughtful essays from the original and mixing in thirty-two new works. Each essay offers a taste of the aesthetic, political, historical, and personal issues that have engaged...
Design Management
Managing Design Strategy, Process and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Design management (the management of design strategies, processes and projects) is an intricate subject. As the role of design in the world continues to broaden, organisations are increasingly viewing design as being integral to their decision-making processes. Opening with a contextual overview of...
Graphic Design Discourse
Evolving Theories, Ideologies, and Processes of Visual Communication
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
If the aim of graphic design is to communicate meaning clearly, there's an irony that the field itself has struggled between two contradictory opposites: rote design resulting from a rigorous, fixed set of rules, and eccentric design that expresses the hand of the artist but fails to communicate with...
Hello World
Where Design Meets Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Our gadgets, appliances, and cars are sleeker and more elegant than they’ve ever been; in our free time, we trawl the internet for pictures of flawless minimalist interiors; and even the great industrialist of our time—Steve Jobs—is admired more for his visual savvy than his technological inventiveness....
Citizen Designer
Perspectives on Design Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
What does it mean to be a designer in today’s corporate-driven, overbranded global consumer culture? Citizen Designerattempts to answer this question with more than 70 debate-stirring essays and interviews espousing viewpoints ranging from the cultural and the political to the professional and the...
Design Is The Problem
The Future of Design Must Be Sustainable
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Design makes a tremendous impact on the produced world in terms of usability, resources, understanding, and priorities. What we produce, how we serve customers and other stakeholders, and even how we understand how the world works is all affected by the design of models and solutions. Designers have...
Design Leadership
Securing the Strategic Value of Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The fundamental tenet of this Design Leadership book is that design is a commercial and social imperative and its management and leadership are integral parts of what can make business successful, government effective and society safer and more enjoyable for everyone. The text draws on Raymond Turner’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Participatory design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Its central concern is how collaborative design processes can be driven by the participation of the people affected by the technology designed. Embracing a diverse collection of principles...