Design category: 5388 books
by Heli Helskyaho
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Design Databases with Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler
In this practical guide, Oracle ACE Director Heli Helskyaho explains the process of database design using Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler—the powerful, free tool that flawlessly supports Oracle and other database environments, including Microsoft...
Handbook of Research on Trends in Product Design and Development
Technological and Organizational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
Product design and development (PDD) is an area of increasing importance to industrial competitiveness. In a global market, the competitive advantage of companies lies not only in mastering existing processes and methodologies, but also on their ability to pursue different directions, providing increased...
by Maurizio Bevilacqua, Filippo Emanuele Ciarapica, Giancarlo Giacchetta
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Environmental Design is becoming an increasingly significant agenda for many manufacturing companies and yet there is no standard to their approaches, strategies or their levels of execution. Applying Design for Environment (DfE) methodologies to develop a more sustainable supply chain has formed...
by James Wang
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Are Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) helpful or detrimental to the process of design? According to Aristotle, the imagination is a mental power that assists logical, sound judgments. Design, therefore, incorporates both reason and imagination. Challenging ICT Applications in Architecture,...
Electronic Design Automation
Synthesis, Verification, and Test
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
This book provides broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire EDA flow. EDA/VLSI practitioners and researchers in need of fluency in an "adjacent" field will find this an invaluable reference to the basic EDA concepts, principles, data structures, algorithms, and architectures for the...
Superusers
Design Technology Specialists and the Future of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Design technology is changing both architectural practice and the role of the architect and related design professionals. With new technologies and work processes appearing every week, how can practitioners be expected to stay on top and thrive? In a word, Superusers.
*Superusers: Design Technology...
Workplace Environmental Design in Architecture for Public Health
Impacts on Occupant Space Use and Physical Activity
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
This concise volume analyzes the potential for the workplace environment—where so many people spend so much of their day—to improve workers’ capacity for health and wellness. It pinpoints the link between sedentary lifestyles and poor health, and explores the role of office spatial design in...
Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design
Proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Affective and Pleasurable Design, July 17–21, 2017, The Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
This book discusses the latest advances in affective and pleasurable design. It reports on important theoretical and practical issues, covering a wealth of topics including aesthetics in product and system design, design-driven innovation, affective computing, evaluation tools for emotion, Kansei...
Architecture and Design
Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Technological evolutions have changed the field of architecture exponentially, leading to more stable and energy-efficient building structures. Architects and engineers must be prepared to further enhance their knowledge in the field in order to effectively meet new and advancing standards. Architecture...
Mismatch
How Inclusion Shapes Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.
Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20...
Design Roots
Culturally Significant Designs, Products and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Design Roots provides a comprehensive review of culturally significant designs, products and practices which are rooted to particular communities through making tradition and a sense of place. Many rich traditional practices associated with community, tacit knowledge and culture are being rapidly...
Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design
Proceedings of the AHFE 2018 International Conference on Affective and Pleasurable Design, July 21-25, 2018, Loews Sapphire Falls Resort at Universal Studios, Orlando, Florida, USA
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
This book discusses the latest advances in affective and pleasurable design. Further, it reports on important theoretical and practical issues, covering a wealth of topics including aesthetics in product and system design, design-driven innovation, affective computing, evaluation tools for emotion,...
by Henry Sanoff
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Educators often overlook the positive impact of changing the environment of the school itself when considering how to improve the quality of education.
First published in 1994, School Design shows how to create more effective schools through a design process that involves teachers, students,...
Design Thinking
A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Design thinking is a powerful process that facilitates understanding and framing of problems, enables creative solutions, and may provide fresh perspectives on our physical and social landscapes. Not just for architects or product developers, design thinking can be applied across many disciplines...