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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.

A must have for product design students!

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.

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 But there is a problem: the normal conception of "the user" is incomplete and based on outdated notions. These notions of simple, direct relationships between people and products are no longer valid in today''s complex, technologically interconnected world.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.

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.

As a follow-up to the bestseller Visual Thinking and the second book Visual Doing, the author is releasing the two workbooks. These books are great tools to help you kick start your visual journey and gain the confidence to produce amazing, compelling drawings.

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.

As a follow-up to the bestseller Visual Thinking and the second book Visual Doing, the author is releasing the two workbooks. These books are great tools to help you kick start your visual journey and gain the confidence to produce amazing, compelling drawings.

Written for fashion graduates, newbie entrepreneurs and those in entry-level positions in the industry, Blue is the New Black demystifies the process of how to make a fashion collection accessible for all levels. It's a reference guide, a buddy, and an overview of who, what and where.

Dieser Guide befasst sich mit allen Details zur Anwendung von Nachhaltigkeitsanforderungen im Design. Es ist ein kritischer und prägnanter Überblick über die wichtigsten Fakten aus allen erdenklichen Blickwinkeln. Das Buch ist geschrieben und illustriert, um Designer unmitelbar zu informieren, zu unterstützen und zu inspirieren. Jede Seite bietet wichtige Ratschläge zu den Grundlagen des ,Design for Sustainability'. Der Leitfaden deckt alles ab, was mit Nachhaltigkeit zu tun hat: von der persönlichen Erfahrung des Lesers bis hin zu allgemeingültigen Leitprinzipien; vom Energieverbrauch und der Materialverwendung bis hin zur Rolle von Zeit, Verbrauch, Nutzung, Kreislaufwirtschaft und Reduzierung. Es enthält Tipps, Grundsätze und Leitlinien, die Designprojekte von Anfang bis Ende unterstützen. Neue Ansätze jenseits des Konventionellen werden vorgestellt und aktuelle Annahmen zu Wirtschaft, Technologie und Design werden im gesamten Buch aufgezeigt.

Das Buch kann von allen Fachleuten genutzt werden, die den sozialen Wandel fördern wollen und hierin kreativ vorgehen möchten. Es integriert die Theorie der sozialen Konstruktion mit den Werkzeugen des ,Design Thinking' in den Forschungsrahmen.Das Konzept von Dualismen in der Forschung - wie etwa quantitativ/qualitativ oder subjektiv/objektiv - wird in Frage gestellt und vielmehr eine Relation von unterschiedlichen sozialen Prozessen und Realitäten fokussiert und konstruiert.Für soziale Aktivisten, Akteure des sozialen Wandels, Organisations- und Gemeindeleiter und akademische Fachleute- Bettet Designperspektiven in den Diskurs um soziale Themen ein- Bietet praktische und innovative Werkzeuge und Methoden, die aus Designansätzen stammen und diese Ideen in die Tat umsetzen

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.

Enjoyable, practical and full of hidden gems and tips, this book will help you get your organisation to align with building a unique market value through delivering memorable experiences to your customers. Because to be noticed, you need to stand out of the crowd.

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.

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.

Some of the most life-changing connections are made at events. But if you can't design events, how can you change your world? The answer? This handbook will change the way you think about how events change the world you live in. It shows the way to re-design your world on one sheet of paper using the #EventCanvas.