This exercise book is a spin-off to The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker: How to make connections others don't. While this book is based on a dynamic balance of theory, technique, and exercises, the Creative Thinker's Exercise Book is a practical hands-on workbook, the perfect outlet to get your hands dirty and dive into exercises that strengthen one's ability to see and make connections.

This book is for those seeking to enhance their creativity. It can be used to:

- Develop one's creat...

The role of design professionals' in innovation is growing towards a more strategic one. They are no longer just executors of new product and/or service design briefs but are increasingly involved in the crafting of these briefs and in the strategic decisions leading to these briefs. In order to effectively play this role, design professionals need to master a set of strategic practices - i.e., routinized actions and ways of working. However, since the strategic role of designers is a relativ...

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...

As a follow-up to the bestseller Visual Thinking and the second book Visual Doing, the author is releasing two workbooks. These books are great tools to help you kick-start your visual journey and gain the confidence to produce amazing, compelling drawings. The books are crammed with tons of visual exercises, ranging from tracing illustrations to drawing hacks. It will inspire you to design and share your own icons! Create clear and compelling layouts; focusses on flipcharts and larger, more ...

Products that Last starts where most books on product development end. This new edition (first self-published by the TU Delft) contains new examples and insights from recent publications. From the perspective of designers and entrepreneurs, once a product has been designed, produced and sold, it disappears beyond the newness horizon. They are little aware of the opportunities that exist in the next product universe, where money is made from products in use, as well as from a product’s after...

A must have for product design students!

Are designers still making drawings by hand? Isn’t it more advanced to use a computer in this computer era? Some may think sketching is a disappearing skill, but if you ever enter a design studio, you will find out differently. Studios still make sketches and drawings by hand and in most cases, quite a lot of them. They are an integral part of the decision-making process, used in the early stages of design, in brainstorming sessions, in the phase of ...

Do you dare to step away from the social media mandate? Are you ready to challenge yourself beyond the automatic solutions of creative work today? Can we break from business-as-usual and find alternative ways of approach?

Following the publication of Offline Matters: The Less-Digital Guide to Creative Work comes a game of 2 card decks: Truth or Dare?. Like the much-loved classic game of Truth or Dare, the tools on the cards are designed to challenge creative minds into unfamiliar places of th...

Agile practices have become the backbone of large companies, but Scrum Masters often grapple with the challenge of establishing and sustaining high performance. That's where this book comes in: The Little Book of Agile Wisdom is a distinctive and practical guide tailored for Scrum Masters and passionate Agile practitioners. Within its pages, you'll encounter 66 carefully selected quotes organized into six thematic areas. Each quote is complemented by an appropriate image and interpretation, e...

Are you a female entrepreneur aiming to reach your highest potential? Then this is the book you need! Authored and designed by Abigail and Chloe Baldwin—dynamic twin sisters and successful business owners—this book unveils a unique roadmap to building confidence and a strong personal brand.

Drawing from their own entrepreneurial journey, the Baldwins intertwine personal anecdotes with a practical branding framework. Emphasizing teamwork, personal growth, and strategic business development...

This versatile deck of cards is designed to spark new ways of thinking and doing by reconnecting with the natural world. The cards can be used to overcome a creative block, guide a brainstorm session, or get inspired with a new perspective.