Kategoria BISAC: Design >> Product

Sound is one of the most commonly overlooked components in product design, even though it's often the first way people interact with many products. When designers don t pay enough attention sound elements, customers are frequently left with annoying and interruptive results. This practical book covers several methods that product designers and managers can use to improve everyday interactions through an understanding and application of sound design.

• Understand the place of sound in design, and how it can make a difference in your product
• Learn key concepts in sound...

Traditionally, the way to test a product's reliability was to build it--and then try to break it. As systems and technologies improved, TAAF (Test, Analyze, and Fix) methodologies were developed and adopted. In today's global economy with its short, technologically-intense product life cycles, TAAF cannot suffice. Reliability can no longer be a step or a series of steps in product development; it is something that needs to be acknowledged upfront and built into the product from its very conception. Reliability, in other words, must be "designed in."

Product developers now have many...

Tricky Things responds to the burgeoning of scholarly interest in the cultural meanings of objects, by addressing the moral complexity of certain designed objects and systems.

The volume brings together leading international designers, scholars and critics to explore some of the ways in which the practice of design and its outcomes can have a dark side, even when the intention is to design for the public good. Considering a range of designed objects and relationships, including guns, eyewear, assisted suicide kits, anti-rape devices, passports and prisons, the contributors...

This book examines California's enormous impact on contemporary design, from the counterculture of the 1960s to the tech culture of Silicon Valley. On a more expansive level, California: Designing Freedom explores the idea that California has pioneered tools of personal liberation - from LSD to surfboards and iPhones. This ambitious survey brings together political posters and portable devices, but also looks beyond hardware to explore how user interface designers in the San Francisco Bay Area are shaping some of our most common daily experiences. Californian products have...

To remain innovative in today's market, companies have to adopt a culture of learning and customer-centric practices that are focused on outcomes rather than outputs. This book provides product managers with a practical process that focuses on finding opportunities to solve customer problems and achieve business goals.

Author Melissa Perri provides a toolbox of product management principles that can be applied to any company, big or small. By understanding the secrets to communicating and collaborating within a company structure, you'll learn how to overcome product development...

Product design touches every aspect of modern life, determining the form and function of the products and technologies that we use every day. Good design combines creativity with an appreciation of the technologies that underpin modern products and an understanding of how they fit into our lives.

Product Design and the Supply Chain contains fascinating content applicable to industry. It is full of useful and insightful real-life cases and examples. The author has collaborated for case studies with key figures in industry, such as Egil Moller Nielsen, former Group-Vice...

First flown in 1969, Concorde was the first supersonic aircraft to go into commercial service in 1976 and made her final flight in 2003. She was operated primarily by British Airways and Air France. British Airways' Concordes made just under 50,000 flights and flew more than 2.5 million passengers supersonically. A typical London to New York crossing would take a little less than three and a half hours compared to around eight hours for a "subsonic flight." In November 1986 a Concorde flew around the world, covering 28,238 miles in 29 hours, 59 minutes.

Today, Concordes can be viewed...

The definitive guide to the LEGO(R) Star Wars(TM) universe, showcasing the vast collection of LEGO Star Wars sets and minifigures released over the last 20 years.

This is a complete, unrivaled encyclopedia of the LEGO Star Wars theme. Fans will have an all-encompassing companion to the LEGO Star Wars cultural phenomenon. Produced in large format and featuring beautiful imagery, this is an indispensable guide for young fans and a stunning reference work for adults. With behind-the-scenes material, it tells the complete story of LEGO Star Wars, from...

In der Zeit, als der Wiener Glasverlag J. & L. Lobmeyr 1823 gegrundet wurde, avancierte Glas zum beliebten Material fur Architekten und Gestalter. In Kooperation mit Architekten wie Josef Hoffmann, Oswald Haerdtl und Adolf Loos entstanden spater Designklassiker, von denen manche noch heute unverandert hergestellt werden.

Seit dem Jahr 2000, nun in sechster Generation gefuhrt, knupft Lobmeyr wieder an die groe Zeit der Wiener Glasgestaltung zu Beginn des vergangenen Jahrhunderts an. In Zusammenarbeit mit Wiener und internationalen Designern entwickelt Lobmeyr neue Designstrategien,...

Why do we　readily　dispose of some things,　whereas　we keep and maintain others　for years, despite their obvious wear and tear? Can a greater understanding of aesthetic value lead to a more strategic and sustainable approach to product design? Aesthetic Sustainability: Product Design and Sustainable Usage　offers guidelines for ways to reduce, rethink,　and reform consumption. Its focus on aesthetics adds a new dimension to the creation, as well as the consumption, of sustainable products. The chapters offer innovative ways of...

Rhetoric is a natural choice for UX work.”

—Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen Norman Group, author of Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity

“I really like the definition of experience architecture. As Potts and Salvo write in their introduction, ‘experience architecture requires that we understand ecosystems of activity, rather than simply considering single-task scenarios.’”

—Donald Norman, Nielsen Norman Group, author of The Design of Everyday Things

Rhetoric and Experience...