New Riders imprint: 313 books
Talent Is Not Enough
Business Secrets For Designers
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...