Design

Design for Sustainability Survival Guide concerns all the details on applying sustainability requirements in design.

Nobody is born a leader - we grow to be one. Through self-development, guiding tasks and activities, and interdisciplinary theory, Leadership by Design will help you become the leader you’ve always believed you can be.

Design, Play, Change is a game and a book providing 36 method cards that will support you to familiarise with Design Thinking.

A practical guide for change-makers, this must-read book helps you to tap into the powers of imagination and amp-up creativity.

Are you looking for a practical tool to help you apply design thinking in your projects or make your brainstorming sessions more effective? This deck of 80 cards, based on the Double Diamond of design, helps you turn your ideas into action.

'Rethinking Users' introduces a radical new approach that questions some of our most fundamental ideas about the nature of user experience.

This creative card deck toolbox will guide the player to be creative at the different stages of any process or situation where new ideas are desired.

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.

Design innovation and Integration is more than just a toolkit, it is a guidebook for the industry leaders of tomorrow. If you are looking to grow your influence and create an environment in which design innovation can flourish, then this book is for you.

With this book you will see that even the most complex sketches are just a structure of very simple, yet confidently drawn segments built on each other.

Design Character helps the reader peel back their own layers, finding the ‘who’ at the centre of their design practices.

A designer’s handbook to learn systemic design tools to engage stakeholder groups in collaborative design to address complex societal systems.

'Beyond Design, The Game of Social Solutions' guides you to set up your own socially relevant design project.

Typographic guidelines are hard to remember. With this book you don’t have to remember every single one of them. The book contains a number of tricks that designers need to know and understand.

What to consider when choosing fonts in difficult reading situations including signage, small point sizes, glance-like reading or scanning? But also what to look out for when designing for struggling readers.

'Sofie Beier strikes again adding a new book to the Type Tricks series. The new edition about Layout Design is as great as the previous edition on Type Design.' Marina Chaccur, Type Design Teacher at Royal Academy of Arts, The Hage (KABK).

Brand Vision Cards help businesses to establish brand Identity. So whether you’re a new starter or a member of the board, these cards will help you to know where to start with developing a brand, by defining key values, strengths, emotions and actions!

Introduces the Constructionist Research Design Process as a framework for research that is creative, transformative and innovative.

In this revised edition (2020) of Delft Design Guide, you will find 11 perspectives on design, 6 models that describe how design works as an activity, 12 approaches that describe part of the design process, and 68 design methods.

The Umami Strategy proposes a novel approach that will help you build and execute an experience strategy that is inspirational, aspirational and motivational.

After the worldwide success of Sketching and Sketching: the Basics the authors now shift their focus from ‘how to sketch’ to ‘why to sketch’.

An incredibly broad and practical survey of sketching techniques for product designers. It goes without saying that the book is suited for the classroom, but every design studio will also find this manual an asset.

Design Things That Make Sense is the first and complete guide to designing technology-based products and services.

An innovative and practical methodology to unravel a product’s afterlife and systematically evaluate it for new opportunities.