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Combining the expertise and insight of a leading journalist and a pioneering designer, Kuang and Fabricant provide a definitive, thoughtful, and practical perspective on a topic that has rapidly gone from arcane to urgent to inescapable. It is a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Kuang and Fabricant unpack the ways in which the world has been-- and continues to be-- remade according...
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2022.
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English
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"Globalization and digitalization are keywords of the contemporary society, and it effects our daily lives both professional and private life. Society has become more diverse and we have easy access to information and to connect to virtual platforms that gives us opportunity to be in touch with colleges, friends and family all over the world on daily basis. At the same time, we are facing a growing complexity in society where internet of things and...
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[2023]
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You've seen their work - but have you seen them? From advertising to architecture, cartooning to fashion design, Black designers have been working in every major industry but, for the past decades, have not been given the spotlight anywhere near to the extent of their white counterparts. This vibrant and wide-ranging book more than corrects that oversight, bringing a century of Black designers and their work fully into focus. The book is organized...
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Design for social responsibility volume 12
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2020.
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English
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"Design for Wellbeing charts the development and application of design research to improve the personal and societal wellbeing and happiness of people. It draws together contributions from internationally leading academics and designers to demonstrate the latest thinking and research on the design of products, technologies, environments, services and experiences for wellbeing. Part 1 starts by conceptualizing wellbeing and takes an in-depth look at...
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2016.
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Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, the Silicon Valley innovators and Stanford University design educators in their hugely successful course, Designing Your Life, have helped thousands change the way they live. Burnett and Evans believe that in order to change, people need a process--a design process--to help them figure out what they want and how to create it. In this long-awaited book, Burnett and Evans make clear, step by step, how to think like a designer,...
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[2016]
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Chapter 6 - Make Assumptions Explicit; Overview; Revealing Assumptions Isn't Easy; Discussing Solutions, not Assumptions; Released Product is No Place to Learn What Stakeholders Need; Nonsensical Artifacts Generate Useful Results; Good Assumptions are Hard to Find; Ass. U. Me-Implicit Assumptions Make Us All Look Stupid; We Really Want to Believe; We Don't Know Anybody Else's Assumptions Either; Risk Factors; Insincerity; Not Getting to Yes; Summary;...
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2020.
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English
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What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice? "Design justice" is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims explicitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities. It has emerged from a growing community of designers in various fields who work closely with social movements and community-based organizations around the world.
This book explores the theory and practice of design...
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2016.
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"Design is changing the way businesses behave and compete. Recognizing and using design as a corporate asset can improve your chances of success. This collection will give you insight into how large companies, startups, and government agencies are using design as a competitive lever."--Resource description page.
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Book Apart volume no. 42
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[2022]
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Build the design industry you want to see—the one we all deserve.Make the most of the pivotal intersection between business goals and user needs. Create incisive and inclusive user-centered experiences across augmented, extended, and virtual realities.
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2022.
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As our climate, ecological and social crises converge, urgent action is needed to maximize our chances of survival. A new commercial approach is possible but it requires a systemic shift, with companies learning to operate as part of a wider 'ecosystem', allowing fashion to restore what it has taken. Regenerative Fashion presents a roadmap for new ways of doing fashion. To keep our planet safe, we must cut production and end our dependency on fossil...
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2019.
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Explains gamification, especially the Octalysis framework, as taking the elements of games that make people want to return and continue playing those games, and applying those elements to other activities, thus increasing productivity and quality in the workplace while improving the workers' experience and increasing customer satisfaction and loyalty.
14) Designing gamified systems: meaningful play in interactive entertainment, marketing and education
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2016.
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Designing Gamified Systems is a fundamental guide for building essential skills in game and interaction design to revitalize and reimagine real world systems - from cities and corporations to schools and the military. Author Sari Gilbert develops a set of core principles and tools for using game thinking and interactive design to build motivation, explain hard concepts, broaden audiences, deepen commitments and enhance human relationships. Designing...
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2020.
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Modest fashion has been gaining momentum in the mainstream global fashion industry over the past half-decade and is now a multi-billion-dollar retail sector. Its growing and now consistent appearance on high-profile fashion runways, on celebrities and in the headlines of fashion publications and news outlets, has shown that the modest fashion movement is hugely relevant to consumers. This is particularly true for millennials who are attracted to the...
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