Readings
The below lists provide examples of material that you could read as part of your development hours. You can use this sortable and filterable table as well.
Books
- Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business $10 (design in practice: entrepreneur)
- Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers $15 (design process: design thinking)
- 101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization $20 (design process:design thinking)
- Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less $15 (design in practice: business)
- creativity inc $20 (creativity: media)
- The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation 1st Edition $20 (design process: design thinking)
- The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO’s Strategies for Beating the Devil’s Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization $25 (design process: design thinking)
- A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future $ 5 (imagination: creativity)
- Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? $10 (creativity: creativity)
- Creative Confidence $10 (design process: design thinking)
- Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation $15 (design process: design thinking)
- The Myths of Innovation $ 5 (design process: design thinking)
- Rapid Problem Solving with Post-It Notes $10 (problem solving: design thinking)
- The Design of Business $10 (design process: design thinking)
- Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters $15 (strategy: business)
- Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate Change $10 (communication: leadership)
- The accidental creative $15 (creativity: creativity)
- Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality $10 (prototyping: design thinking)
- inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity $10 (innovation: design thinking)
- Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success $10 (teamwork: design thinking)
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success $ 5 (mindset: design thinking)
- Universal Traveler $40 (creativity: design thinking)
- Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making $40 (teamwork: leadership)
- Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation $15 (ideation: design thinking)
- The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail $15 (innovation: business)
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead $10 (empathy: design thinking)
- Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work $25 (design process: design thinking)
- The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm $25 (design process: design thinking)
- Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy $10 (empathy: design thinking)
- A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas $ 5 (Design process: design thinking)
- How will you measure your life? $15 (mindset: business)
- Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers $20 (Design process: design thinking)
- The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design $30 (problem solving: design thinking)
- The Culture Code $20 (design process: teams)
- The Design of Everyday Things $15 (design: product design)
- Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box $10 (self deception: leadership)
Articles
- Design Thinking is Not a Process, It’s A Mindset
- How to apply a design thinking, HCD, UX or any creative process from scratch (design process: design thinking)
- Brainstorming is dumb (ideating: design thinking)
- Design and the Self
- How to Create Personas for Design Thinking: Four steps to building products with your users in mind (empathy: design thinking)
- How to Create Scenarios For Design Thinking: 5 strategies for leading innovation at your company (empathy: design thinking)
- Facing Complexity: Wicked Design Problems (user experience: design thinking)
- Designing for Service: Creating an Experience Advantage (user experience: design thinking)
- GREAT QUESTIONS LEAD TO GREAT DESIGN: A GUIDE TO THE DESIGN THINKING PROCESS (questions: design thinking)
- 6 Key Ways Design Thinkers Approach Problems (design process: design thinking)
- Build customer empathy by listening to their stories (listening: design thinking)
- EMPATHY ON THE EDGE SCALING AND SUSTAINING A HUMAN-CENTERED APPROACH IN THE EVOLVING PRACTICE OF DESIGN (empathy: design thinking)
- Disabled by Design: How a lack of imagination in technology keeps the world inaccessible to huge numbers of people. (empathy: design thinking)
- Empathic Design: Is Empathy the UX Holy Grail? (empathy: design thinking)
- CAN TYPOGRAPHY HELP US EMPATHIZE WITH OTHERS? (empathy: design thinking)
- The ‘Relay Ideation’ Technique: Moving from Problem Understanding to Problem Solving in the Design Process (ideation: design thinking)
- Making Ideation a Part of the ‘Innovation Project Machine’ (ideation: design thinking)
- Sources of inspiration: a language of design (ideation: design thinking)
- 5 KILLER IDEATION TECHNIQUES (ideation: design thinking)
- The Future of Prototyping is Now Live (prototyping: design thinking)
- ALTA Reshapes Low-Altitude Imaging & Prototyping with 3D Printed Tactical SmartBalloons (prototyping: design thinking)
- DISNEY’S $1 BILLION BET ON A MAGICAL WRISTBAND (user experience: design thinking)
- Cross cultural considerations for user interface design (user experience: design thinking)
- Cultural differences in smartphone user experience evaluation (user experience: design thinking)
- Owning Your Story (user experience: design thinking)
- Why We Need Storytellers at the Heart of Product Development (user experience: design thinking)
- 5 Mental Debugs for Success & Global Prosperity by Inventor & Google Genius, Tom Chi (active learning: design thinking)
- Designing a Beautiful Mind: Usability Testing in the Age of Virtual Assistants (user experience: design thinking)
- Eye Tracking: What Is It For And When To Use It (user experience: design thinking)
- How to design a top-quality icon (design process: design thinking)
- Everything is Connected – Here’s How: | Tom Chi | TEDxTaipei (active learning: design thinking)
- The Realities Of How Emotional Intelligence Is Improved And Applied (EQ: business)
- The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your Brain: Science suggests we are hardwired to delude ourselves (storytelling: business)
- Allergy to Originality (originality: soft skills)
- Design Thinking: A Quick Overview (design process: design thinking)
- Creation Myth (originality: soft skills)
- The Flash of Genius (originality: soft skills)
- What is Original (originality: soft skills)
- Developing originality (originality: soft skills)
- The Paradox of Originality in Art (originality: soft skills)
- Why Originality is Overrated (originality: soft skills)
- Active Listening: The Art of Empathetic Conversation (active listening: soft skills)
- Active Listening: Hear What People Are Really Saying (active listening: soft skills)
- Empathic Listening (active listening: soft skills)
- If You Want To Be An Empathic Listener, Stop Using This Word (active listening: soft skills)
- 6 Critical Thinking Skills You Need to Master Now (critical thinking: soft skills)
- The Art of Thinking Well (critical thinking: soft skills)
- Leonard Mlodinow: “Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change” Talks at Google (category flexibility: soft skills)
- The Power of Flexible Thinking (category flexibility: soft skills)
- “What Is It?” Categorization Flexibility and Consumers’ Responses to Really New Products (category flexibility: soft skills)
- How To Be The Cognitively Flexible Leader (category flexibility: soft skills)
- Executive Functioning Skills: Cognitive Flexibility (category flexibility: soft skills)
- 3 Smart Ways to Keep Yourself From Rambling (oral expression: soft skills)
- Shared language:Towards more effective communication (oral expression: soft skills)
- The 7 Cs of Communication: A Checklist for Clear Communication (oral expression: soft skills)
- How Culture Controls Communication (oral expression(soft skills)
- Use of language in diplomacy (oral expression: soft skills)
- 5 Ways to Communicate More Clearly (oral expression: soft skills)
Blogs
Some of the articles above have been gleaned from the following blogs. Feel free to browse through these blogs to find readings related to our course.
- Digital Experience Design
- Metacool: Thoughts on Design and stuff
- Innovationship
- Ideo: Tim Brown on Design Thinking
- Designmind
- The Design Gym
- Designthink