The Visual Thinking Workbook is a great tool to help you kick-start your visual journey and gain the confidence to produce amazing, compelling drawings. The book is to be used in combination with the theory book Visual Thinking. The workbook is crammed with tons of visual exercises, ranging from tracing illustrations to drawing hacks. It will inspire you to design and share your own icons! Drawing people and interactions, highlights simple ways of drawing people, emotions and interactions. It...

In Mindset to Startup, you’ll go on an enlightening journey that transcends the conventional boundaries of entrepreneurship. Naguib invites readers to explore the true essence of entrepreneurship, going beyond the pursuit of profit. With insights drawn from 10,000 hours of mentoring founders, Naguib offers a highly experienced perspective, emphasizing the significance of value literacy to attain tangible progress on the uncertain journey of entrepreneurship.

The book delves into the latent ...

Good services don't happen by accident, and neither do bad ones. Designing a service that works for users and organizations is just the first step. The real challenge begins when that design is turned into reality.'Bad Services' delves into common obstacles. From organizational silos and risk aversion to a lack of buy-in, the barriers can seem insurmountable. This book helps you understand why service design often fails to be implemented and provides practical solutions to overcome these chal...

Ever wondered why some people seem to thrive on the unknown while others struggle? Unlock the secret to innovation with "Everything is a Prototype." This guide dismantles the fear of failure, redefining it as a stepping stone to success in any field. It reveals how historical misunderstandings about making mistakes have stifled creativity and offers a new perspective: deliberate error-making as a pathway to genius. The book provides insights and tools for embracing experimentation, leading to...

A little book about the big and overwhelming issues humanity is dealing with. Taking economics as a surprising stepping stone, it connects the dots between essential developments in science, history, sociology, technology, design and culture. It is not a book about terrifying numbers, but about key stories from our past and present and how they affect our future. How do we as creatives help create the world we want?

The ToDontList-Method, which featured in this book’s two predecessors, unve...

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are currently making a dynamic appearance in the architectural realm. Social media are being bombarded by word-to-image/image-to-image/word-to-3D/image-to-3D illustrations of fictive buildings generated by 2D or 3D AI algorithms. However, these “designs”, while visually appealing, have initiated a debate about their substance and the impact they have on conventional design methods. This book investigates the integration of generative ai-assist...

Designers are visual thinkers: they are used to sketches, not drafts, and rely on visuals instead of words. As a result, writing is a strange skill for a designer, leading to blank-page anxiety and procrastination. But no more! This book helps designers overcome the challenge of communicating with words. It introduces a writing method that fits how designers think, guiding them in clarifying thoughts, breaking down complex ideas into manageable pieces, and using writing to spark new ideas.

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