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This is why I don’t call myself a service designer any more

UX Collective

The road to design maturity gets longer The inflation of design as a profession and why I no longer call myself a service designer Photo is by Jan Huber from Unsplash I love doing service design.

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The Best Graphic Design Books to Buy

Inkbot Design

100 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers: Insider Secrets on Working Smart and Staying Creative. This book contains quotes from noteworthy designers, both past and present, working in fields ranging from graphic design, fashion, architecture, typography, and industrial design. −$35.05. Buy on Amazon.

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Don Norman and the Emotional Side of Design

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” Sale Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things Norman, Don A. Author) English (Publication Language) 272 Pages – 05/11/2005 (Publication Date) – Basic Books (Publisher) −$6.10 $11.89 Buy on Amazon Why Does Emotional Design Matter?

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40 Best Creative Podcasts To Liven Up Your Day

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In his 2015 book, Design Your Life, Vince Frost laid out his central idea that design thinking can apply to everything from business to life. Design Matters. In 2005, Debbie Millman started a radio show, Design Matters, which became the first-ever of the design and creative podcasts. Listen here.

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Dot Dot Dot Is the Most Influential Design Magazine You’ve Never Heard Of

Eye on Design

This rigorous meta-analysis immediately inserted Dot Dot Dot into the lineage of design journalism and set the tone for its entire run of 20 issues which were released biannually from 2000 to 2010. Certainly, if you were a particular type of designer in the early 2000s, Dot Dot Dot was the most exciting publication you could find.

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The waves of research practice

UX Collective

Building models of users (Beyer & Holtzblatt’s models of user work and flow, Cooper’s models of user goals and behavior) to drive design was not new. 1967) What Cooper began in Inmates, he carried forward to About Face (1995, with Robert Reimann and David Cronin) , in the larger frame of interaction design.

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Designing for Inclusion

UX Collective

Image source: ISA Unfortunately, accidents do happen, like the Texas City oil refinery disaster of 2005, during which operators were ill-equipped for having proper situational awareness of a dangerous running process, which resulted in a major explosion. Inadequate operator training is often blamed for many industrial accidents.