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Publisher
Crown, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"An engaging, enlightening, and cleverly illustrated guide to product design, written by experienced professional designers and instructors. Products are in every area of our lives, but just what product designers do and how they think is a mystery to most. Product design is not art, engineering, or craft, even as it calls for skills and understandings in each of these areas-along with psychology, history, cultural anthropology, physics, ergonomics,...
Author
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Today we have the ability to connect speech, touch, haptic, and gestural interfaces into products that engage several human senses at once. This practical book explores examples from current designers and devices to describe how these products blend multiple interface modes together into a cohesive user experience. Authors Christine Park and John Alderman explain the basic principles behind multimodal interaction and introduce the tools you need...
Author
Publisher
Packt Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Design is everywhere. Take a look around you right now and consider the products and services we use every day. You'll notice that our computer and phone operating systems, our web browsers, and the apps we use to work, order food, socialize and even date have been designed by UX specialists to offer you the best experiences when using their products and services. Of course, not all online experiences are designed with our best interests in mind....
Author
Publisher
Apress
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Chapter 7: Designing for Scale; Fall in Love with the Problem; Benefit As Many People As Possible; Designing for Accessibility; Don't Get Lost in the Aesthetics; Systems and Processes; Systems for Designers and Engineers; How Do We Create a Design System?; When to Use and Not Use Design Systems; Summary; Chapter 8: Psychology, Culture, and Design; Visual Perception; Affordance; Gestalt; Comprehension and Memory; Progressive Disclosure; Mental Models;...
Author
Publisher
O'Reilly
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Bad design is everywhere, and its cost is much higher than we think. In this thought-provoking book, authors Jonathan Shariat and Cynthia Savard Saucier explain how poorly designed products can anger, sadden, exclude, and even kill people who use them. The designers responsible certainly didn't intend harm, so what can you do to avoid making similar mistakes? Tragic Design examines real case studies that show how certain design choices adversely...
Author
Publisher
Apress
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Enhance your product management skills and set yourself apart from other product managers working in the IoT industry. This book shows you how to navigate through the world of small and Edge devices to successfully launch and monitor products connected together to make smart environments. Working in Agile environments, you'll learn to guide UI builds that serve customer needs and function the way top tech companies expect. Then measure the right product...
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"For decades, sustainability books have pointed a path to more efficient, effective ways to save resources and money, but they just don't seem to be moving the needle. The problem is the sustainably minded haven't convinced skeptics that powerful economic incentives really exist. Using a unique, practical scorecard understandable to any executive in or outside of operations, this book, once and for all, makes the pragmatic argument for sustainable...
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Design: The Definitive Visual History is a gorgeous visual celebration of design across the decades. Find out all about the major design movements of the last 150 years from Arts and Crafts to Bauhaus and browse through the beautiful image catalogs of everything from glassware to posters and typography to chairs. Arranged chronologically, from 1850 to the present day, follow the fascinating evolution of how design has influenced the look and functionality...
11) Empathy
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Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Empathy is credited as a factor in both improved relationships and even better product development. But while it's easy to say, "just put yourself in someone else's shoes," the reality of understanding others' motivations and emotions is more elusive. This book helps you to understand what empathy is, why it's important, how to surmount the hurdles that make you less empathetic--and when too much empathy is just too much. This volume includes the...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Digital design has emerged as perhaps the most dynamic force in society, occupying a fluid, experimental space where product design intersects with art, film, business, engineering, theater, music, and artificial intelligence. Stephen Eskilson traces the history of digital design from its precursors in the nineteenth century to its technological and cultural ascendency today, providing a multifaceted account of a digital revolution that touches all...
Author
Publisher
O'Reilly Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Deep learning has the reputation as an exclusive domain for math PhDs. Not so. With this book, programmers comfortable with Python will learn how to get started with deep learning right away. Using PyTorch and the fastai deep learning library, you'll learn how to train a model to accomplish a wide range of tasks-including computer vision, natural language processing, tabular data, and generative networks. At the same time, you'll dig progressively...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Start at the End offers a new framework for design, grounded in behavioral science. Technology executive and behavioral scientist Matt Wallaert argues that the purpose of everything is behavior change. By starting with outcomes instead of processes, the most effective companies understand what people want to do and why they aren't already doing it, then build products and services to bridge the gap. Wallaert is a behavioral psychologist who has led...
15) FROM CHAOS TO CONCEPT: a team oriented approach to designing world class products and experiences
Author
Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"If you want to design solutions to meet business goals and delight your users, you can look to this resource which covers the following areas: Creating and documenting goals, strategies, objectives, and tactics Defining or refining personas based on your measurable objectives (OKRs) Creating and iterating on scenarios based your prioritized personas A team approach to defining the product and roadmap to address critical use cases Team based divergent...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Combining the expertise and insight of a leading journalist and a pioneering designer, Kuang and Fabricant provide a definitive, thoughtful, and practical perspective on a topic that has rapidly gone from arcane to urgent to inescapable.
It is a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Kuang and Fabricant unpack the ways in which the world has been-- and continues to be-- remade according...
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Publisher
Packt Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Get to grips with leading 3D engineering and product design application to design robust 3D models and achieve CSWA and CSWP certification Key Features Gain comprehensive insights into the core aspects of 3D modeling's mechanical parts Learn how to generate assembly designs with both standard and advanced mates Discover design practices for both 2D as well as 3D modeling and prepare to achieve CSWP and CSWA certification Book Description SOLIDWORKS...
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