Kategoria BISAC: Design >> Product

Sketching User Experiences approaches design and design thinking as something distinct that needs to be better understood--by both designers and the people with whom they need to work-- in order to achieve success with new products and systems. So while the focus is on design, the approach is holistic. Hence, the book speaks to designers, usability specialists, the HCI community, product managers, and business executives. There is an emphasis on balancing the back-end concern with usability and engineering excellence (getting the design right) with an up-front investment in...

This book explores the 'craft of use', the cultivated, ordinary and ingenious ideas and practices that promote satisfying and resourceful use of garments, presenting them as an alternative, dynamic, experiential frame with which to articulate and foster sustainability in the fashion sector.

Here Kate Fletcher provides a broad imagining of sustainability in fashion that gives attention to tending and wearing garments, and favours their use as much as their creation. She offers a diversified view of fashion beyond the market and the market's purpose and reveals fashion...

Anlasslich der jahrlich vergebenen Eidgenossischen Preise fur Design realisiert das Bundesamt fur Kultur eine Publikation und eine Ausstellung dieses Jahr in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Museum fur Gestaltungin Zurich. Sie dienen als Plattformen, um alle Preistragerinnen und Preistrager sowie ihre ausgezeichneten Projekte in Text und Bild zu prasentieren und zu dokumentieren. Zu sehen sind Werke u.a. aus den Bereichen Mode, Textil, Grafik, Fotografie, Produktdesign und Schmuck. Das Mandat zur grafischen Gestaltung dieser Publikation wird jeweils fur drei Jahre an junge und innovative...

Companies like Facebook and Twitter have redefined social interaction. But what if -machines- like automobiles, bicycles, health monitors, appliances, instruments, and anything else you can connect to the Internet, could all become members of your social network, collect data you care about, and feed it back to you at just the right time? Nike+ is already doing this for your body, but every major industry, from healthcare to cars to home construction, is now building sensors and digital connectivity into their next generation of products. Companies like Ford, Pepsi, Verizon, and Procter...