Must-Have Design Books for Creatives
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Learn how creating centralized services and systems helps grow integrated, high-functioning design teams, with expert insights on operationalizing across workflows, hiring, team alignment, and more.
Design sprints provide a problem-solving framework to get answers quickly and effectively. Learn to run sprints in any organization to reduce politics, increase collaboration, and put the focus on outcomes.
When it comes to software design, animation is a limitless way to make digital products feel more real by replacing “telling” with “showing.” Learn how you can use animation to demonstrate abstract concepts, make products feel more life-like, and instill more emotion into digital experiences.
Learn the best practices for running a remote design team, and discover how designers can help teams collaborate while working apart. This book was written by our team at InVision, a fully distributed remote workforce since 2011.
Bring a business mind to design, and transform your career and company, with this free book by Apple and Electronic Arts design veteran Ryan Rumsey. Inside, he shares the essential vocabulary and strategies to effectively communicate with your business partners, plus tools, tips, and frameworks that you can put right to work.
Learn how design engineering, an essential discipline to creating great products, brings together form and function while accelerating innovation. Written by industry leaders from Indeed, Mailchimp, The New York Times, and Minted, this book will help you connect design and engineering and work more efficiently as a team.
The more designers are educated about how to handle non-paying clients, the better world and life we will all have.
“We take for granted what a logo really does for a company. Typically we see them stamped on products, hidden in the top left-hand corner of a website, or printed on marketing collateral just because. Yet, a great logo can tell the story of a brand, be the best advertising money can buy, and continually build trust for a business. The power of logo design is something that shouldn’t be ignored.”