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  • The Industrial Design Reference & Specification Book

    Everything Industrial Designers Need to Know Every Day

    by Dan Cuffaro, Isaac Zaksenberg ...
    Series series Reference & Specification Book
    The Industrial Design Reference & Specification Book is the first book to gather all the essential pieces of information industrial designers need on a daily basis in one concise handbook. It's a reference you'll turn to over and over again to efficiently create designs that work, last, and minimize unnecessary risk.To make designs that work and endure (and are also legal), designers need to know ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated

    125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions,

    by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Butler ...
    Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated is a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary encyclopedia covering 125 laws, guidelines, human biases, and general considerations important to successful design. Richly illustrated and easy to navigate, it pairs clear explanations of every design concept with visual examples of the ideas applied in practice. From the 80/20 Rule to the Weakest Link, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Design for 3D Printing

    Scanning, Creating, Editing, Remixing, and Making in Three Dimensions

    by Samuel N. Bernier, Bertier Luyt, Tatiana Reinhard ...
    France's Le FabShop has extensive experience testing 3D printers and creating digital models for them. From an articulated Makey Robot to a posable elephant model, Samuel N. Bernier and the rest of Le FabShop's team have created some of the most-printed designs in the 3D printing world. This book uses their work to teach you how to get professional results out of a desktop 3D printer without ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • AIGA Professional Practices in Graphic Design

    Edited by Tad Crawford ...
    "Provides definitive guidelines on all aspects of the graphic design business."-FYI. * Newly revised and expanded version of an industry classic--5,000 sold! * Up-to-the-minute! Includes web, interactive, and green design, new legislation * Each chapter written by an authority on the subject. Here’s the definitive guide to professional business practices in graphic design, now fully revised and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Hardware Startup

    Building Your Product, Business, and Brand

    by Renee DiResta, Brady Forrest, Ryan Vinyard ...
    Thanks to the decreasing cost of prototyping, it's more feasible for professional makers and first-time entrepreneurs to launch a hardware startup. But exactly how do you go about it? This book provides the roadmap and best practices you need for turning a product idea into a full-fledged business.Written by three experts from the field, The Hardware Startup takes you from idea validation to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Maker's Manual

    A Practical Guide to the New Industrial Revolution

    by Paolo Aliverti, Andrea Maietta, Patrick Di Justo ...
    The Maker's Manual is a practical and comprehensive guide to becoming a hero of the new industrial revolution. It features dozens of color images, techniques to transform your ideas into physical projects, and must-have skills like electronics prototyping, 3d printing, and programming. This book's clear, precise explanations will help you unleash your creativity, make successful projects, and work ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Graphic Design Reference & Specification Book

    Everything Graphic Designers Need to Know Every Day

    by Poppy Evans, Aaris Sherin, Irina Lee ...
    Series series Reference & Specification Book
    The Graphic Design Reference & Specification Book is a must-have sourcebook for every designer—amateur of professional.Completely practical with only the most needed information, this valuable book provides designers with all the little details that can make or break a design, such as:How much space to leave in the gutter when designing barrel foldsHow to layout a template for a box, and the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Designing Products People Love

    How Great Designers Create Successful Products

    by Scott Hurff ...
    How can you create products that successfully find customers? With this practical book, you’ll learn from some of the best product designers in the field, from companies like Facebook and LinkedIn to up-and-coming contenders. You’ll understand how to discover and interpret customer pain, and learn how to use this research to guide your team through each step of product creation.Written for ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • This Is Service Design Doing

    by Marc Stickdorn, Markus Edgar Hormess, Adam Lawrence, Jakob Schneider ...
    How can you establish a customer-centric culture in an organization? This is the first comprehensive book on how to actually do service design to improve the quality and the interaction between service providers and customers. You'll learn specific facilitation guidelines on how to run workshops, perform all of the main service design methods, implement concepts in reality, and embed service ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Design Languages

    by Stefano Caggiano ...
    Most of the people who work in the field attain an implicit knowledge of design languages through exposure to design discourse, that is to say, to the ecosystem comprised of products, companies, showrooms, trade shows, events, exhibitions, magazines, and blogs that deal with design. And just as there is no need to study grammar in order to speak effectively, so too can one learn to “speak” design ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • CAD Engineering Essentials: Hands-on Help for Small Manufacturers and Smart Technical People

    No Nonsence Manuals, #3

    by Mark Lynch ...
    Series Book 3 - No Nonsence Manuals
    Unleash the power of Computer Aided Design to deliver step-change improvements to all teams in your technical business - not just design. The focus is very much on results - bringing full 3D CAD engineering benefits enjoyed by larger firms, to small manufacturing businesses.Do you want to get the most out of your existing CAD package by doing what the best performing manufacturers and engineers do ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Product Development Essentials: Hands-on Help for Small Manufacturers and Smart Technical People

    No Nonsence Manuals, #2

    by Mark Lynch ...
    Series Book 2 - No Nonsence Manuals
    This book is aimed at those who wish to develop new or existing products and get them to market quickly. Ordinary practicing engineers are crying out for easy to apply engineering product development advice. How do you take the mystique out of it, keep it simple and ready to implement?The emphasis is on doing what the best performing companies do to maximise the chances of success. In addition, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus