As we enter an era where AI and sensor-driven interfaces redefine our interaction with technology, 'Interface Design' emerges as an indispensable guide for crafting physical and digital interfaces. This book transcends mere technicalities, offering a unique conceptual approach to discussing and designing user interactions – an invaluable asset for those looking to innovate in the field.Beginning with foundational principles, 'Interface Design' delves into practical case studies and explores...

After eight years work with creative personal branding Jürgen Salenbache has encapsulated its ideas and methods in a book.

Salenbacher looks at the origins of today's crisis and examines the work of leading theorists in business culture before explaining how our success in exploring change rests on our ability to think creatively. Branding practises, he suggests, can help us, but we also need to cultivate creative thinking.

Creative Personal Branding offers over 200 pages of insights, graphics...

Change Ahead is about the emerging practices at the intersection of business strategy, research, and design. It introduces the need for an adventurous, explorative mindset in order to grow businesses that last by creating meaning and relevance with and for people.In a complex and networked world, business, more than ever, is about adaptability to change and the capacity to create new propositions through a dynamic interaction with the environment. Much like sailing, business strategy will inc...

Design Roadmapping is for anyone interested in design, strategy and innovation, and its wonderful combinations. For those who dare to create a future vision, frame the time pacing and map the pathways towards it.This guidebook teaches you how to create a roadmap. It outlines the origins, design theories and science results. Strategic designers, innovation managers and professors share their roadmapping experiences, views and achievements, including venture CPOs, Head of Design, product and pr...

We think we know services — not a day goes by without using them — until we have to design them. It is then that their realities confront us, teasing us sometimes. While services have always been ‘designed’, the qualities of their designs are more important than ever, given how much more we depend on them. Thus the need for deepening our understanding of what services are, what they can be, and why they fail — often in unexpected ways. This book reveals the surprising design of serv...

People who are good at having ideas are good at seeing connections. Could teaching people to see connections be a way to help them be more creative?

Over the years, there's a need for a book on creativity that complements the teaching of the creative process and tools and gives you a practical approach to how to enhance your innate ability to think creatively. This book as an opportunity to dispel the myth that creative talent is something possessed by a gifted minority. This is the opportuni...

This book explains the basic sketching techniques and decisions more in depth and provides much more step-by-step example drawings, which makes it even more suitable for students and professionals who want to become better sketchers.

Sketching the Basics can be seen as the prequel to Sketching as it is more targeted at the novice designer. The Basics explains the essential techniques and effects more in detail, taking the reader by the hand and guiding him step by step through all the various...

Intercultural Design Basics is an intercultural and innovative approach to design education. A unique companion app ensures relevance for a young technology-minded target group.

The book gives intercultural insights when discussing the basic principles of design, typography and color theory. It incorporates contrasting ideas on design and various design teaching methods. Creative voices of well-known and not yet discovered designers from Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia will help expa...

When you want to change the world, how do you bring the world on board? Influence will improve the communications skills of changemakers, disruptors and entrepreneurs to increase their effectiveness and impact. It breaks down the essential skills needed and provides guidance and tools to learn, practice and excel. It’s your go-to communications coach.

Influence brings together what you need to know to get your message out there, making key insights accessible and immediately applicable. Pra...