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Design Thinking
Design Theory

Design Thinking
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This book encourages you to take action: design thinking by doing. This book unravels the thinking and working process of design thinking and offers practical tools for getting started.
Design thinking: Integrating innovation, customer experience and brand value
Call Number: GP 658.5752 52
Through the exercises and techniques within, the reader will develop new confidence to pursue individual goals and inspiration to explore new paths, along with motivation to overcome creative blocks.
Design: the key concepts
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Design is everywhere. It shapes not only our present but also our future. An essential introductory guide, Design: The Key Concepts covers fundamental design concepts: thinking, service, context, interaction, experience, and systems.
From Chaos to Concept: a team oriented approach to designing world class products and experiences
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This book is written for product design, software development, graphic design, and UX professionals with a focus on creating measurably better user experiences.
The Thoughtless Design of Everyday Things
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This book describes numerous specific practices for enhancing product usability through usage-centered design strategies.

Critical design in context: History, theory, and practices
Call Number: GP 745.4 395
Critical Design is becoming an increasingly influential discipline, affecting policy and practice in a range of fields.
The philosophy of design
Call Number: GP 124 2
The Philosophy of Design is an introduction to the fundamental philosophical issues raised by the contemporary practice of design. The first book to systematically examine design from the perspective of contemporary philosophy, it offers a broad perspective, ranging across key philosophical areas such as aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics and ethics.
Moving objects: a cultural history of emotive design
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Moving Objects deals with emotive design: designed objects that demand to be engaged with rather than simply used. If postmodernism depended upon ironic distance, and Critical Design is all about questions, then emotive design runs hotter than this, confronting how designers are using feelings in what they make.
Overcrowded: Designing meaningful products in a world awash with ideas
Call Number: GP 658.5752 67
Also available online from IEEE
The alternate path to innovation mapped by Verganti aims to discover not how things work but why we need things. It gives customers something more meaningful-something they can love.
Product minimalism
Call Number: GP 745.2 373
Product Minimalism demonstrates how product designers in particular have been influenced by the minimalist aesthetic, showcasing contemporary products that range from household items and furniture to bicycle lights which feature this reductive approach in their design.

Product Development

Sketching As Design Thinking
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This book argues for the importance of sketching as a mode of thinking, and the relevance of sketching in the design process, design education, and design practice.
Presto Sketching: Simple Drawing for Brilliant Product Thinking and Design
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No matter what level of sketching you think you have, Presto Sketching will help you lift your game in visual thinking and visual communication.
Drawing for product designers
Call Number: GP 604.2 165
This is both a practical and theoretical guide to the visualization techniques used by contemporary product designers, including freehand sketching, digital rendering, information graphics, and presentation skills.
Perspective Sketching: Freehand and Digital Drawing Techniques for Artists & Designers
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This book offers a command of the basic principals of perspective that is essential to creating dynamic, plausible compositions.
Sketching: Drawing techniques for product designers
Call Number: 745.2 320
Drawing has proved to be, next to verbal explanation, a powerful tool for communicating not only with fellow designers, engineers or model makers but also with clients, contractors and public offices. This book can be regarded as a standard book on design sketching, useful for students in product design.

Software Skills for Creative Careers
This library guide provides a selection of the tutorials available via the QUT Library for software used across courses. Includes tutorials products from Adobe, Autodesk, Microsoft, & more.
Up and Running with AutoCAD 2020
A comprehensive ebook manual for beginners.
AutoCAD for Dummies
A beginners ebook manual.

AutoCAD Tutorials & Online Courses
Beginner to expert tutorials in AutoCAD.
AutoCAD 2020 Essential Training (LinkedIn Learning)
A beginners course to AutoCAD 2020.

Design Thinking: Prototyping (via LinkedIn Learning)
Randall Elliott of frog, a global design and strategy firm, teaches you how to use prototyping to make better decisions, use those design decisions for the next steps, and make sure those steps lead to great experiences.
Prototyping and modelmaking for product design
Call Number: GP 658.5752 58
Prototyping and Modelmaking for Product Designers illustrates how prototypes are used to help designers understand problems better, explore more imaginative solutions, investigate human interaction more fully and test functionality so as to de-risk the design process.
The Art of Folding 2
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The Art of Folding 2 presents a wide range of creators who are inspired by origami and whose work with various materials draws on traditional techniques.
Mastering 3D Printing: A Guide to Modeling, Printing, and Prototyping
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Get the most out of your printer, including how to design models, choose materials, work with different printers, and integrate 3D printing with traditional prototyping to make techniques like sand casting more efficient.
Prototyping for Designers
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By explaining the goals and methodologies behind prototyping--and demonstrating how to prototype for both physical and digital products--this practical guide helps beginning and intermediate designers become more comfortable with creating and testing prototypes early and often in the process.

Making it: manufacturing techniques for product design
Call Number: GP 670 112/2
Also available online from ProQuest
Making It uses contemporary design as a vehicle to describe production processes. It lists their pros and cons, suitable production volumes, costs involved, speed of production, relevant materials, and typical applications.
Materials and design: The art and science of material selection in product design
Call Number: GP 620.11 292/2
Also available online from Elsevier
This book explores the role of materials and manufacturing in product design.
Manufacturing and design: Understanding the principles of how things are made
Call Number: GP 670 119
Manufacturing and Design presents a fresh view on the world of industrial production: thinking in terms of both abstraction levels and trade-offs.
Materials selection in mechanical design
Call Number: GP 620.11 253/5
Also available online from Knovel, and ProQuest
Written for all students of engineering, materials science and design, this book describes the procedures for material selection in mechanical design in order to ensure that the most suitable materials for a given application are identified from the full range of materials and section shapes available.
The materials sourcebook for design professionals
Call Number: GP 658.5752 68
This title is the one-stop resource for all design professionals, providing comprehensive, accurate information about the basic materials with which they work on a daily basis, as well as a complete breakdown on new and exciting developments in high-tech materials.

The fundamentals of product design
Call Number: GP 745.2 297/2
This book provides an integrated and cohesive view of the product design process, covering materials, manufacturing, idea generation, computer-aided design, engineering functions, product types, and market research.
Product Design and Development
Call Number: GP 658.5752 1/7
This text presents in a clear and detailed way, a set of product development techniques aimed at bringing together the marketing, design, and manufacturing functions of the enterprise.
Good 2: Interior products from sketch to use
Call Number: GP 745.2 355/2
In 'Goods 2', iconic and contemporary interior design products are analysed and featured from conceptual design sketch to realisation.
Process: 50 product designs from concept to manufacture
Call Number: GP 745.2 272/2
Beginning with a general introduction, this book then presents each design project through explanatory text as well as inspirational image, sketch, detail shots of production methods and the completed product, giving the reader an interesting and insightful view into product design.
360 Industrial Design: Fundamentals of analytic product design
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A working compendium not only for design students and young designers, but also a guide book for creative lateral thinkers, product and marketing managers and all those who are interested in intelligent design.

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