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The Pocket Universal Methods of Design, Revised and Expanded

125 Ways to Research Complex Problems, Develop Innovative Ideas, and Design Effective Solutions
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The Pocket Universal Methods of Design, Revised and Expanded by Bruce Hanington and Bella Martin is a comprehensive resource that delves into a wide range of design methods applicable across various disciplines. This revised edition includes practical techniques for managing creativity, facilitating problem-solving, and fostering innovation in design projects. The book caters to designers and creatives seeking tools to enhance their design process and outcomes.
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You might enjoy this book if you're fascinated by the art of design and seek a comprehensive guide to various design methodologies. With insights from esteemed authors and practical examples, it's a valuable resource for both budding designers and seasoned professionals looking to expand their toolkit in the creative field.

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The Pocket Universal Methods of Design, Revised and Expanded

The ultimate portable handbook for designers, students, and educators, The Pocket Universal Methods of Design, Revised and Expanded, is updated to include 125 methods of design knowledge to keep teams as well as solo practitioners sharp.

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This handy, portable version of the authoritative Universal Methods of Design provides the same thorough and critical presentation, updated and expanded to include 125 research methods, synthesis/analysis techniques, and research deliverables for human-centred design. Each method of research is distilled down to its most powerful essence, in a format that will help individual practitioners as well as design teams select and implement the research methods best suited to their design culture within the constraints of their projects.

This valuable guide:

  • Dismantles the myth that user research methods are complicated, expensive, and time-consuming
  • Creates a shared meaning for cross-disciplinary design teams
  • Illustrates methods with compelling visualisations and case studies
  • Characterises each method at a glance

With the concise, accessible format of The Pocket Universal Methods of Design, you and your team will be designing in a completely new, more effective way. The titles in Rockport's Universal series offer comprehensive and authoritative information and edifying and inspiring visual examples on multidisciplinary subjects for designers, architects, engineers, students, and anyone who is interested in expanding and enriching their design knowledge.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780760372142

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 November 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Rockport Publishers Inc.

Illustration: 125+ color photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 127.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 264

About the Author

Bruce Hanington is a professor and head of the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Prior to this, he was director of graduate studies, and program chair of industrial design. Bruce has dedicated his teaching and research to methods and practices for human centered design, with an emphasis on design ethnography, participatory design, and the meaning of form in context. In addition to working with industry partners through collaborative projects and executive education, his work has been published in Design Issues, The Design Journal, and Interactions, with chapters in Affective Sciences in Human Factors and Human-Computer Interaction and The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design.Bella Martin is a Lead User Experience Researcher in Atlanta, Georgia. After contributing to award-winning design projects for Microsoft Research, the US Postal Service, GlaxoSmithKline, and Allstate Financial, she now invests much of her time working with organizations who are new to the methods of user-centered research, but eager to give their users a voice in the design process. Bella holds a Master of Design from Carnegie Mellon University, where she first began her ongoing work in visualizing user-centered research methods.

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