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,...

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...

"ATARI is one of the most recognized names in the world. Since its formation in 1972, the company pioneered hundreds of iconic titles including Asteroids, Centipede and Missile Command. In addition to hundreds of games created for arcades, home video systems, and computers, original artwork was specially commissioned to enhance the Atari experience, further enticing children and adults to embrace and enjoy the new era of electronic entertainment....

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.

"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.

"An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic. From the earliest corrals of the mid-1800s (Union Grounds in Brooklyn was a "saloon in the open air"), to the much mourned parks of the early 1900s (Detroit's Tiger Stadium, Cincinnati's Palace of the Fans), to...

Sustainable design is gaining prominence as a pivotal issue for the future of contemporary practice at the best design schools and at professional design conferences.

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;...

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...