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Should 360-degree Feedback Be Only Used For Developmental Purposes?
Author Cynthia D. McCauley , Maxine Dalton , David W. Bracken
Along with the growing use of 360-degree feedback in organizations today, there is much disagreement over how it should be employed: strictly to help the manager develop or also to help those who work with the manager decide such issues as pay and promotion? This p....
Release Date 1997/11 -
Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
Author Brad Feld
An essential guide to building supportive entrepreneurial communities"Startup communities" are popping up everywhere, from cities like Boulder to Boston and even in countries such as Iceland. These types of entrepreneurial ecosystems are driving innovation and small....
Release Date 2012/10 -
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 -
Author Amy Huber
When presenting projects in competitive design environments, how you say something is as important as what you’re actually saying. Projects are increasingly complex and designers are working from more sources, and many designers are familiar with the struggle to ha....
Release Date 2017/11 -
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 -
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 -
The Lean Enterprise: How Corporations Can Innovate Like Startups
Author Obie Fernandez , Trevor Owens
Discover the methods of lean startups that can revolutionize large organizations and their productsEven in a tough economic climate, the startup business community has found a way to create innovative, game-changing products in shockingly short timeframes. So why sh....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Author Eric Ries , Patrick Vlaskovits , Brant Cooper
You are not a Visionary... yet.The Lean Entrepreneur shows you how to become one.Most of us believe entrepreneurial visionaries are born, not made. Our media glorify business outliers like Bezos, Branson, Gates, and Jobs as heroes with X-ray vision who can look to t....
Release Date 2013/02 -
The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
Author Dan Olsen
The missing manual on how to apply Lean Startup to build products that customers loveThe Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. Whether you work at a startup or a large, established company, we all know that building gre....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Author John H. Jack Zenger , Joseph R. Folkman
Praise for The Power of Feedback"Some books are worthy of being recommended simply because of their subject matter. . . . There is no greater force to improve the quality of human relationships or improve the way organizations function than to multiply the amount an....
Release Date 2006/05 -
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 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 -
Transforming an Idea Into a Business with Design Thinking
Author Muhammad Mashhood Alam
We are living in fascinating times, when the power of technology is not just reshaping, but is transforming the globe in unprecedented ways. These include the ability to connect with anyone across the globe in an instant using a tiny device in the palm of our hands....
Release Date 2018/10 -
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 -
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 -
Author Joel Marsh
Whether you want to design apps, websites, or just have an intelligent conversation about design, these quick-and-dirty lessons are for you. Based on the popular UX Crash Course from Joel Marsh’s blog—read over a million times—this book follows the real-life UX proc....
Release Date 2015/12 -
Author Kevin Nichols , Donald Chesnut
Get up to speed quickly on the latest in user experience strategy and designUX For Dummies is a hands-on guide to developing and implementing user experience strategy. Written by globally-recognized UX consultants, this essential resource provides expert insight and....
Release Date 2014/04 -
Author Laura Klein
p>Great user experiences (UX) are essential for products today, but designing one can be a lengthy and expensive process. With this practical, hands-on book, you’ll learn how to do it faster and smarter using Lean UX techniques. UX expert Laura Klein shows you wh....
Release Date 2018/11 -
Author Edward Stull
What can a WWII-era tank teach us about design? What does a small, blue flower tell us about audiences? What do drunk, French marathon-runners show us about software? In 40+ chapters and stories, you will learn the ways in which UX has influenced history and vice v....
Release Date 2018/09 -
Author Jaime Levy
User experience (UX) strategy requires a careful blend of business strategy and UX design, but until now, there hasn’t been an easy-to-apply framework for executing it. This hands-on guide introduces lightweight strategy tools and techniques to help you and your tea....
Release Date 2015/05 -
Author Joe Natoli , Jodie Moule , Dan Goodwin , Luke Hay
This book is a collection of hard-won lessons from UX experts, gained from many years of working in the field. It contains:How Analytics Helped Solve a UX Issue by Luke HayUsing Prototyping Tools to Define Better Weather Icons for Everyone by Dan GoodwinHow User Re....
Release Date 2019/07 -
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 Jennifer Mailhot , Ellen Siminoff , Julie Stanford , Mia Silverman
Design Thinking has grown increasingly popular as a go-to method for problem solving and innovation. But what is this design methodology really about and how can it work in your company? In this report, professionals from Sliced Bread Design go beyond the hype to e....
Release Date 2017/09 -
Who Killed Creativity?: ...And How Do We Get It Back?
Author Jason Gallate , Gaia Grant , Andrew Grant
The essential guide to building a culture of creativity and innovation throughout an organizationYour help is needed to crack an unsolved crime: creative thinking is critical for future fulfillment and survival, and yet it is now declining at an alarming rate. In th....
Release Date 2012/06