A guide to managing creativity in a business environment. It demonstrates how to boost morale, productivity and consumer satisfaction - while having fun in the process.

This book looks at how human factors are being used more and more in the product design process within commercial manufacturing organisations. It shows how designs can appeal to the user holistically, so that products are a joy to use.

Treating such contemporary design and development issues as identifying customer needs, design for manufacturing, prototyping, and industrial design, this book presents a set of product development techniques aimed at bringing together the marketing, design, and manufacturing functions of the enterprise.

Covers a range of production methods. As well as describing each process, this work offers guidance on its pros and cons and on suitable production volumes, the costs involved, speed of production, relevant materials and typical applications.

Introduces us to 40 influential designers who have shaped our interaction with technology. This book tells the story of the author's own design process and explains the focus on people and prototypes that has been successful at IDEO - how the needs and desires of people can inspire innovative designs. It is illustrated with more than 700 images.

Designed and targeted for the undergraduate, graduate and practicing engineer. Product Design presents an in-depth study of structured design processes and methods.

A practical volume for students, designers, teachers and business people, this text is based upon 50 contemporary product designs and the whole process of creating them from an initial idea or concept through to the finished product.

From toothbrushes to cars, this work, written by Charlotte and Peter Fiell, features everyday products designed by luminaries.

Features 100 masterpieces of design, those small objects we use daily from tea bags to paperclips to hairpins. This book portrays each object in detail with an informative text on its origin and special design features, as well as a silhouette image of the object as we usually see it. It celebrates our everyday lives in a different way.

Using the computer industry as an example, this work develops a theory of design and industrial revolution. It argues that the industry has experienced previously unimaginable levels of innovation and growth because it embraced the concept of modularity.

Guides the reader through the process of selecting materials on the basis of their design suitability. This book addresses the problem of selecting materials for industrial design from a different viewpoint. It offers easy to use systematic approach to the selection and uses of materials.

A guide to the next great wave of technology - an era of objects so programmable that they can be regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system. Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's about everything, writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds, Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic. .

For those students who intend to play a role in product development, including students in engineering, design, and in marketing and other business disciplines. This book identifies key factors associated with product and service innovation, and presents a revolutionary approach to building products that redefine markets - or create new ones.

Technologies have a life cycle, and they must change as they gain maturity. Alas, the computer industry thinks it is still in its rebellious years, exalting in technical complexity. In this book, the author shows why the computer is difficult to use, and why this is so fundamental to its nature.

Offers an analysis of the challenges and opportunities in leveraging innovation, technology, product development and marketing for elder consumers and employees.

Presenting an exploration of contemporary design practice, this book calls for a sustainable approach to product design of various types. It illustrates the work by 90 of the world's leading designers and design-led manufacturing companies, while also featuring their statements that give an insight into the nature of 3-dimensional design.

Thai Ideas in Textiles and Furniture.

States that by observing the built environment we walk through every day - the often-overlooked details of buildings, roads, and infrastructure - we can learn to see the world as engineers do, and adapt this perspective to everyday thinking. This book instructs anyone in creative fields, business, and design to see the world through IDEO's eyes.

Design Secrets: Furniture shadows similar success stories by showcasing award-winning furniture designs from around the world. Each profile is complete with sketches, notes, and interim iterations revealing how the final piece came to be.