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Now That Your Products Can Talk, What Will They Tell You?
Author Meir Kahtan , Eric Gervet , Suketu Gandhi
Not long ago, companies had to rely in large part on surveys and focus groups to understand what customers liked and didn’t like about their products. In recent years, social media and online ratings have given businesses new ways to learn about customersR....
Release Date 2016/04 -
How to Launch Products in Uncertain Markets
Author Jan Hendrik Fisch , Jan-Michael Ross
How should companies launch products in times of uncertainty? Should they “wait and see” until uncertainty resolves — or commit to a full-scale launch and ride it out? Conventional wisdom says being early to market is the right choice, but that is....
Release Date 2018/10 -
Verification Techniques for System-Level Design
Author Mukul Prasad , Indradeep Ghosh , Masahiro Fujita
This book will explain how to verify SoC (Systems on Chip) logic designs using “formal and “semiformal verification techniques. The critical issue to be addressed is whether the functionality of the design is the one that the designers intended. Simulation h....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Author Rex Hartson , Pardha S. Pyla
This is a comprehensive textbook on designing interaction to ensure a quality user experience. Combining breadth, depth, and practical applications, this book takes a time-tested process-and-guidelines approach that provides readers with actionable methods and techn....
Release Date 2012/01 -
Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chips
Author Wayne Wolf , Ahmed Jerraya
Modern system-on-chip (SoC) design shows a clear trend toward integration of multiple processor cores on a single chip. Designing a multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSOC) requires an understanding of the various design styles and techniques used in the multipro....
Release Date 2004/10 -
Commercial Airplane Design Principles
Author Pasquale M Sforza
Commercial Airplane Design Principles is a succinct, focused text covering all the information required at the preliminary stage of aircraft design: initial sizing and weight estimation, fuselage design, engine selection, aerodynamic analysis, stability and control....
Release Date 2014/01 -
Author James O'Brien , Martina Schell
This book identifies the 13 main challenges designers face when they talk about their work and provides communication strategies so that a better design, not a louder argument, is what makes it into the world.It is a fact that we all want to put great design into th....
Release Date 2015/02 -
Bridging UX and Web Development
Author Jack Moffett
The divide between UX and Web development can be stifling. Bridging UX and Web Development prepares you to break down those walls by teaching you how to integrate with your team’s developers. You examine the process from their perspective, discovering tools an....
Release Date 2014/06 -
Author Stephane P.A. Bordas
Advances in Applied Mechanics draws together recent significant advances in various topics in applied mechanics. Published since 1948, Advances in Applied Mechanics aims to provide authoritative review articles on topics in the mechanical sciences, primarily of inte....
Release Date 2014/11 -
Author Alberto Ferreira
Universal UX Design: Building Multicultural User Experience provides an ideal guide as multicultural UX continues to emerge as a transdisciplinary field that, in addition to the traditional UI and corporate strategy concerns, includes socio/cultural and neurocognit....
Release Date 2016/11 -
The Truth About Creating Effective Feedback Loops with Your Employees
Author William S. Kane
This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Thriving in Change (9780132354622) by William S. Kane. Available in print and digital formats.A manager’s guide to getting the right information, giving the right feedback, and pushing the right buttons.Today, research....
Release Date 2010/08 -
Author Carolyn Chandler , Russ Unger
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 desig....
Release Date 2012/03 -
Give Your Business a Heart (Collection)
Author David B. Wolfe , Rajendra S. Sisodia , Jagdish N. Sheth , Dev Patnaik
Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, first edition, explains how companies can challenge themselves to meet their customers more than halfway. The author's original approach walks helps readers shift their thinking and their com....
Release Date 2014/02 -
Author Mike Monteiro
Whether you’re a designer or not, you make design decisions every day. Successful design projects require equal participation from both the client and the design team. Yet, for most people who buy design, the process remains a mystery. In his follow-up to Design Is ....
Release Date 2014/11 -
The Joy of UX: User Experience and Interactive Design for Developers
Author David Platt
“For years now, I’ve been running around preaching to anyone who’ll listen that UX is something that everybody (not just UX people) needs to be doing. Dave has done an excellent job of explaining what developers need to know about UX, in a complete but compact, eas....
Release Date 2016/05 -
Experience Required: How to become a UX leader regardless of your role
Author Robert Hoekman Jr.
For all the resources on great design, there is almost nothing on how to be a great design professional. For all the schools and classes and workshops on what constitutes a good user experience, there is not one bit of formalized education on how to earn the respec....
Release Date 2015/12 -
Tapping Into the Collective Wisdom of Community to Make Great Products
Author Jon Spector , Barry Libert
This Element is an excerpt from We Are Smarter Than Me: How to Unleash the Power of Crowds in Your Business (9780132244794) by Barry Libert and Jon Spector. Available in print and digital formats.How your customers can help you design better products and services th....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Design Thinking for Tech: Solving Problems and Realizing Value in 24 Hours
Author George W. Anderson
In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, Design Thinking for Tech helps you inject techniques and exercises into your projects using the same systematic and creative process that designers have used for years.Anderson walks you through a simple four-phase Design Thinking model, showing how to loop ba....
Release Date 2022/12 -
Acquisition Essentials: A step-by-step guide to smarter deals
Author Peter Howson , Denzil Rankine
Do you really understand the business you are thinking of buying?Have you worked out the realistic synergies?What is the right price?How well prepared are you for the negotiations?What does all that lawyer speak mean?Have you developed a clear integration plan in ad....
Release Date 2005/10 -
A Project Guide to UX Design: For User Experience Designers in the Field or in the Making
Author Carolyn Chandler , Russ Unger
“If you are a young designer entering or contemplating entering the UX field this is a canonical book. If you are an organization that really needs to start grokking UX this book is also for you. " -- Chris Bernard, User Experience Evangelist, Microsoft User exper....
Release Date 2009/03 -
Author Marty Neumeier
Part manifesto, part handbook, THE DESIGNFUL COMPANY provides a lively overview of a growing trend in management—design thinking as a business competence. According to the author, traditional managers have relied on a two-step process to make decisions, which he cal....
Release Date 2008/12 -
Author Peter G. Neumann - SRI International
"This sobering description of many computer-related failures throughout our world deflates the hype and hubris of the industry. Peter Neumann analyzes the failure modes, recommends sequences for prevention and ends his unique book with some broadening reflections o....
Release Date 1994/10 -
Unmasking Theatre Design: A Designer's Guide to Finding Inspiration and Cultivating Creativity
Author Lynne Porter
Every great design has its beginnings in a great idea, whether your medium of choice is scenery, costume, lighting, sound, or projections. Unmasking Theatre Design shows you how to cultivate creative thinking skills through every step of theatre design - from the fi....
Release Date 2014/12 -
KaChing: How to Run an Online Business that Pays and Pays
Author Joel Comm
For nearly fifteen years, Joel Comm has been generating revenue on the web via a number of avenues. In KaChing, he shares his five primary methods of making money online, combining traditional marketing with the new, offering detailed strategies and techniques that ....
Release Date 2010/06 -
Creativity Unlimited: Thinking Inside the Box for Business Innovation
Author Micael Dahlen
Flying in the face of current thinking, this book suggests that we do not need to 'think outside the box' in our quest for creativity, rather we should rethink the way we look 'inside the box'. This idea will resonate only too well with those who have endeavour....
Release Date 2009/07 -
Designing Search: UX Strategies for eCommerce Success
Author Greg Nudelman
Best practices, practical advice, and design ideas for successful ecommerce searchA glaring gap has existed in the market for a resource that offers a comprehensive, actionable design patterns and design strategies for ecommerce search—but no longer. With this inval....
Release Date 2011/05 -
Author Georgia Murch
Feedback is broken — here's how to fix it to create a highly engaged workplace with high performing leaders and employeesFixing Feedback is not just another management book — it's a smart, refreshing, practical guide to feedback in the workplace. Everyone already....
Release Date 2016/05 -
Learn Small Business Startup in 7 Days
Author Heather Smith
The practical guide to learning the essentials of starting your own business in just one weekThinking about starting a business? Then Learn Small Business Startup in 7 Days is the book for you. Guiding you through the key aspects of getting a new business up and run....
Release Date 2013/04 -
Author Michelle Segar
Selected as the #1 book in diet/exercise for 2015 by USA Best Book Awards.We start out with the best intentions. We're going to exercise more and get in shape! Then five days a week at the gym turns into two... then becomes none. We hit the snooze button and skip t....
Release Date 2015/06