General Design category: 1730 books
Prototyping
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Prototyping is a great way to communicate the intent of a design both clearly and effectively. Prototypes help you to flesh out design ideas, test assumptions, and gather real-time feedback from users. With this book, Todd Zaki Warfel shows how prototypes are more than just a design tool by demonstrating...
Do Design
Why beauty is key to everything
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
So much passes us by, unnoticed. We multi-task, switch between screens, work faster. When was the last time you paused to consider a beautifully made object or stunning natural landscape? Yet this is when our spirits lift, our soul is restored. Designer Alan Moore invites us to rethink what we produce...
by Debbie Millman
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Take a peek inside the heads of some of the world’s greatest living graphic designers. How do they think, how do they connect to others, what special skills do they have? In honest and revealing interviews, nineteen designers, including Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Beirut, David Carson, and Milton...
Designing Connected Products
UX for the Consumer Internet of Things
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Networked thermostats, fitness monitors, and door locks show that the Internet of Things can (and will) enable new ways for people to interact with the world around them. But designing connected products for consumers brings new challenges beyond conventional software UI and interaction design.
This...
by Don Norman
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
By the author of THE DESIGN OF EVERYDAY THINGS. For decades, Don Norman has spoken the language of gadgets, explaining how the things we see every day are made and made better. In this smart, sharp, fun exploration of design, Norman pulls back the curtain on the things we make to make our lives easier....
Paper Prototyping
The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2003
Do you spend a lot of time during the design process wondering what users really need? Do you hate those endless meetings where you argue how the interface should work? Have you ever developed something that later had to be completely redesigned?
Paper Prototyping can help. Written by a usability...
Frame Innovation
Create New Thinking by Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
How organizations can use practices developed by expert designers to solve today's open, complex, dynamic, and networked problems.
When organizations apply old methods of problem-solving to new kinds of problems, they may accomplish only temporary fixes or some ineffectual tinkering around...
Fashioning Professionals
Identity and Representation at Work in the Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
From artist to curator, couturier to fashion blogger, 'creative' professional identities can be viewed as social practices, enacted, performed and negotiated through the media, the public, and industry. Fashioning Professionals addresses what it means to be a creative professional, historically and...
Teaching Illustration
Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Graduate and Undergraduate Programs
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Teaching Illustration is a must-have for any college-level art instructor. Packed with a wealth of illustration course syllabi from leading art and design schools across the U.S. and Europe, it offers exciting ideas on topics from editorial illustration to animation, books, and the Internet. Each...
Discover Design Pattern Thinking
Applying New Design Techniques to Improve Our Mental Operacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
"Thinking skill in unquestionably the fundamental human resource. We need to do much more about developing this skill, because the complexity of modern life demands more than routine reactions. There is an even bigger need for productive, constructive and generative thinking" I hope that...
by Noel Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This stylish introduction to fashion drawing is aimed both at practicing designers who want to brush up their skills, and at wannabe designers and fashion enthusiasts who want to learn how to design, draw and illustrate fashion from scratch. User-friendly, accessible and stylish, this book is an ideal...
by Benjamin H. Bratton
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
What is the new normal? Something has shifted, it seems. We are making new worlds faster than we can keep track of them, and the pace is unlikely to slow. If our technologies have advanced beyond our ability to conceptualize their implications, such gaps can be perilous. In response, one impulse is to...
by Eric Gill
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Eric Gill's opinionated manifesto on typography argues that 'a good piece of lettering is as beautiful a thing to see as any sculpture or painted picture'. This essay explores the place of typography in culture and is also a moral treatise celebrating the role of craftsmanship in an industrial age....
Fashion Pattern Cutting
Line, Shape and Volume
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Designed to boost draping confidence and design creativity, Fashion Pattern Cutting is a step-by-step guide to the pattern cutting process, from finding inspiration for a fashion-forward design through to creating the finished product.
- Clear visuals show each step from mood board to patterns...