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Kun je op zoek zijn naar iets wat je nog niet kent? Wellicht een vreemde, maar uiterst relevante vraag als je iets nieuws moet bedenken. Onze klassieke manier van denken is gericht op het zoeken naar oorzaken en het nemen van beslissingen. Deze denkwijze gaat uit van de bestaande wereld, maar is ontoereikend om die van de toekomst te bedenken.

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How to use the Design Thinking Tools

A practical guide to make innovation happen

The Design Thinking Toolbox explains the most important tools and methods to put Design Thinking into action. Based on the largest international survey on the use of design thinking, the most popular methods are described in four pages each by an expert from the global Design Thinking community. If you are involved in innovation, leadership, or design, these are tools you need. Simple instructions, expert tips, t...

• Al ruim veertig jaar het meest gebruikte communicatiehandboek in het hoger onderwijs;

• biedt een stevige kennisbasis en volop mogelijkheid om nieuwe vaardigheden te oefenen;

• aansprekend geïllustreerd en voorzien van uitgebreide digitale ondersteuning.

Volgens de nieuwe wet Taal en toegankelijkheid moeten universiteiten en hogescholen de uitdrukkingsvaardigheid in het Nederlands van hun Nederlandstalige studenten bevorderen. Dat betekent dat die studenten over de volle breedte van ...

"A longstanding excellent primer, in an equally excellent updated edition."-PrintEllen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips's celebrated introduction to graphic design, available in a revised and updated edition. Graphic Design: The New Basics explains the key concepts of visual language that inform any work of design. A foundational graphic design book for students, Lupton and Phillips explore the formal elements of design through visual demonstrations and concise commentary.

From logos to lett...

A full-color introduction to the basics of HTML and CSS! Every day, more and more people want to learn some HTML and CSS. Joining the professional web designers and programmers are new audiences who need to know a little bit of code at work (update a content management system or e-commerce store) and those who want to make their personal blogs more attractive. Many books teaching HTML and CSS are dry and only written for those who want to become programmers, which is why this book takes an en...

User experience design is the discipline of creating a useful and usable Web site or application that's easily navigated and meets the needs of the site owner and its users. There's a lot more to successful UX design than knowing the latest Web technologies or design trends: It takes diplomacy, management skills, and business savvy. That's where the updated edition of this important book comes in.

With new information on design principles, mobile and gestural interactions, content strategy, r...

What happens when you've built a great website or app, but no one seems to care? How do you get people to stick around long enough to see how your service might be of value? In Seductive Interaction Design, speaker and author Stephen P. Anderson takes a fresh approach to designing sites and interactions based on the stages of seduction. This beautifully designed book examines what motivates people to act.

Topics include:AESTHETICS, BEAUTY, AND BEHAVIOR: Why do striking visuals grab our attent...

This is Service Design Thinking introduces an inter-disciplinary approach to designing services. Service design is a bit of a buzzword these days and has gained a lot of interest from various fields. This book, assembled to describe and illustrate the emerging field of service design, was brought together using exactly the same co-creative and user-centred approaches you can read and learn about inside. The boundaries between products and services are blurring and it is time for a different w...

After the success of 2017’s Visual Thinking, the author noticed that people enjoy discovering how easy it is to use drawings in business communication. But they still have no guide to satisfy their desire to tell a visual story in a very simple way. That is why the author has now written Visual Doing. This book will fulfil this desire, not by drilling deeper into the advice in the first book, but by ‘undeepening’ Chapters 3 and 4. These chapters, both about drawing in visual business se...

Wil je leren hoe je sneller op nieuwe ideeën komt? Wil je de finesses van het brainstormen onder de knie krijgen? Wil je zelf, met je team of je klant aan de slag met creativiteit? Creativiteit Hoe? Zo! geeft je een rondleiding in je eigen denken en helpt je om je eigen creativiteit en die van je organisatie actief te ontwikkelen. Het is een leer-, doe- en oefenboek voor iedereen die de sleur standaardoplossingen wil doorbreken en anderen daarin wil meekrijgen. Met actuele cases en krachtige...