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By enhancing your ability to identify connections, you can enhance your creativity. This exercise book strengthens your ability to recognise connections. The exercises are based on the theory of the book The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker, as well as observations in neuroscience, and seventy years of creativity studies.

This is Service Design Thinking introduces an inter-disciplinary approach to designing services. 23 international authors and even more online contributors from the global service design community invested their knowledge, experience and passion together to create this book.

After the success of 2017's Visual Thinking, the author noticed that people enjoy discovering how easy it is to use drawings in business communication.

Revised edition: 20 additional methods, three new case studies and a new chapter to introduce life-centred design. This book introduces the reader to the changing role of design as a way of thinking and a framework for solving complex problems and achieving systemic change.

Through 24 unique challenges, a diverse range of angles, and detailed insights into the world of food design, Lick It will radically transform your relationship to food.Whether mealtimes are your favourite part of the day or you're in the camp of 'eat to live' rather than 'live to eat, this book will help you reshape how you think about food. Much more than just body fuel, food is political, it's social, it's exciting and constantly shifting and changing. With a striking balance between creative tools and cutting-edge theory, these 30 chapters will examine everything from food politics and sex to hunger and queer food. Lick It is not a cookbook. Rather, it's an ultimate food experience, helping you challenge your mind and expand your mouth.

Highly creative thinkers are good at seeing connections. By enhancing your ability to see connections, you can enhance your creativity. Based on this observation, a solid theory and the latest neuroscience, this exercise book is for people who want to become better creative thinkers.

Knowing your users stimulates your imagination and helps you create more exciting and effective design solutions. But there is a problem: the normal conception of "the user" is incomplete and based on outdated notions. These notions of simple, direct relationships between people and products are no longer valid in today''s complex, technologically interconnected world. This fun and practical book with a set of cards will change the way readers think about users. Rethinking Users introduces a radical new approach that questions some of our most fundamental ideas about the nature of user experience. It points to new opportunities to create products and services that help users in new ways. The book includes a deck of user archetype cards and step-by-step team activities for unlocking new user-centered thinking and design inspiration. For designers, design researchers, strategists, innovators, product managers, and entrepreneurs in almost any field.

Not all of us get to work on multi-million corporate identity projects for airlines and huge conglomerates. Whether you are new to the sector, honing your skills or if you have to tackle identity projects in the real world, Know your Onions - Corporate Identity is a broad introduction on identity design (not branding - don't worry, you'll learn the difference).

'Type Tricks' is about typographical rules and the underlying structure of the work process in the design of new typefaces. In that way, it is both a reference book and a user manual. In an illustrative format, it presents the different stages of type design in an easily accessible manner.

With communication comes responsibility; are designers aware of the meaning and impact of their work? This is a collection of visual examples from around the world. It explores the cultural meaning behind the symbols, maps, photography, typography, and colours that are used every day.

Creative Block is a book set out to ruffle feathers, get out of ruts and start those juices flowing. Focusing on creative process and theory, it is filled with over 100 tasks to get your head into a conceptual and creative space, encouraging experimentation and playfulness in art.Ideal for artists, industry creatives and individuals who simply want to delve deeper into their own creativity. This book helps to improve your process and technique when approaching art, in all its forms. Intriguing, fun and challenging, Creative Block will have you distorting, abstracting, morphing, reinventing and, above all, leaving the box behind.

Service design is a rapidly growing area of interest in design and business management. There are a lot of books on how to get started, but this is the first book that describes what a "good" service is and how to design one. This book lays out the essential principles for building services that work well for users. Demystifying what we mean by a "good" and "bad" service and describing the common elements within all services that mean they either work for users or don''t.A practical book for practitioners and non-practitioners alike interested in better service delivery, this book is the definitive new guide to designing services that work for users.

Alwin Put skizziert einen dreiteiligen Ansatz, in dem er erklärt, wie man das Beste aus Menschen herausholt, indem man zusammenarbeitet. In den drei Teilen geht es darum, (1) warum es sich lohnt, sich als Moderator und Fördernder zu entwickeln, (2) wie man lernt, mit der "heiligen" Dreifaltigkeit (Führen, Leiten und Katalysieren) zu arbeiten, und (3) wie man den richtigen Geisteszustand und ein hohes Energieniveau beibehält, um das Beste aus seinem Team herauszuholen.Captains of Leadership kombiniert Elemente aus Business, Kreativität und Selbsterfahrung. Es ist ein unverzichtbares Werkzeug für jeden, der an fördernder Zusammenarbeit glaubt. Es ist sowohl praxisorientiert als auch inspirierend. Werden Sie ein Captain of Leadership: mit Moderation kann jeder aufsteigen und eine Führungskraft sein.

Meet our 30 queens in and out of drag in Drag Queen Memory Game: a diverse, fierce and fabulous game. The before-and-after photos are taken in the same environment to allow easier recognition when picking sets of two.

Design Things That Make Sense ist der erste und vollständige Leitfaden zur Gestaltung technologiebasierter Produkte und Dienstleistungen. Er beantwortet Fragen wie: Warum werden einige Produkte ein Erfolg, während andere scheitern? Warum schaffen einige Produkte Wert, während andere ihn zerstören? Warum gibt es so viel Technologie-Push und so wenig Denken von außen nach innen? Technologie erschließt neue Fähigkeiten, die niemand verlangt hat, die aber bei richtiger Anwendung einen Wert für die Nutzer schaffen können. Das klingt einfacher, als es ist; die Entwicklung erfolgreicher technischer Produkte und Dienstleistungen erfordert einen einzigartigen Ansatz. Anhand von Fallstudien, praktischen Einblicken, Beispielen, Tipps und Tools lernen die Leser, wie sie eine nutzerzentrierte Denkweise annehmen und Technologien sinnvoll anwenden können.Das Buch enthält über 50 Entwurfsstrategien, um starke Vorteile zu entwerfen und den Widerstand, den Menschen gegen neue Technologien haben könnten, zu minimieren. Es richtet sich an Innovatoren, die es besser machen und Produkte und Dienstleistungen entwerfen wollen, die Sinn machen.

We think, feel, and talk in metaphors. Why not use them for design? This book is meant to inspire designers and everyone curious about how the mind works.

Did you ask someone a question today? Asking questions makes us human, it helps us to establish connections, learn and transform. This book turns the spotlight on the craft of asking questions.

Don't Buy This Book is the sequel to the highly successful Don't Read This Book - Time Management for Creative People. Like its predecessor, it uses the ToDon'tList method to help you make the right choices - choices that help you achieve your goals as a creative entrepreneur.

Generative design research is an approach to bring the people we serve through design directly into the design process in order to ensure that we can meet their needs and dreams for the future.

When times are particularly difficult, and you are likely to slip into despair, some of the greatest pop songs can provide true comfort to make it through the pain. The problem with advice in general is that we often don't take it. The great thing about advice songs is that you can kick back and listen to someone else coach you through a tough situation while rocking out at the same time.