the world—if they know how to focus their skills, time, and agendas. In Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable, Nathan Shedroff examines how the endemic culture of design often creates unsustainable solutions, and shows how designers can bake sustainability into their design processes in order to produce more sustainable solutions. Design is the Problem...(展开全部)

From best-selling author Donald A. Norman, the long-awaited sequel to The Design of Everyday Things : a critical look at the new dawn of "smart" technology, from smooth-talking GPS units to cantankerous refrigerators. Donald A. Norman, a popular design consultant to car manufacturers, computer companies, and other industrial and design outfits, has seen the future and is w...(展开全部)

From best-selling author Donald A. Norman, the long-awaited sequel to The Design of Everyday Things : a critical look at the new dawn of "smart" technology, from smooth-talking GPS units to cantankerous refrigerators. Donald A. Norman, a popular design consultant to car manufacturers, computer companies, and other industrial and design outfits, has seen the future and is w...(展开全部)

Most companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game-changing innovation like Apple's iPod, or create an entirely new category like Facebook. Many make genuine efforts to be innovative-they spend on R&D, bring in creative designers, hire innovation consultants. But they get disappointing results. Why? In The Design of Business, Roger Martin offers a co...(展开全部)

Most companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game-changing innovation like Apple's iPod, or create an entirely new category like Facebook. Many make genuine efforts to be innovative-they spend on R&D, bring in creative designers, hire innovation consultants. But they get disappointing results. Why? In The Design of Business, Roger Martin offers a co...(展开全部)

In this book Hartmut Esslinger — one of the most influential designers and thinkers internationally, as well as the founder of frog design — explains how ‘strategic design’ in business and society can and must bring about positive change through innovative creativity. A key component is the strategically extended definition of design as a convergent and humanistic amalgamation of...(展开全部)

In this book Hartmut Esslinger — one of the most influential designers and thinkers internationally, as well as the founder of frog design — explains how ‘strategic design’ in business and society can and must bring about positive change through innovative creativity. A key component is the strategically extended definition of design as a convergent and humanistic amalgamation of...(展开全部)

What is the primary quality of great design? It moves. It moves us emotionally, travels from person to person, and takes us toward something better. Designers connect and build bridges that lead us to new places and expand what is possible. We tell productive untruths, then toil to make them reality. The practice shifts like a shadow and moves the target. When it does so, the p...(展开全部)

夏洛特与彼得·菲尔夫妇是英国知名设计史学者。他们都有着艺术史与设计史专业教育背景，学术经历丰富。夏洛特曾就读于佛罗伦萨英国学院和坎伯韦尔艺术学院，彼得曾在中央圣马丁艺术与设计学院攻读设计研究硕士学位。同时，他们还是伦敦苏富比艺术学院的校友。20世纪80年代末，菲尔夫妇在伦敦开设了一间专门销售设计品的艺廊。20世纪90年代之后，他们的工作重心转向设计研究和设计类图书出版，在1993年至2008年间担任塔森出版社（Taschen）责任编辑。夫妇二人共同合作，编撰一体，先后出版了50余本图书，代表性著作有《1000把椅子》（1000 Chairs，1997年首版，2013年、2017年两次再版）、《20世纪的设计》（Design of the 20th Century，1999年首版）、《斯堪的纳维亚设计》（Scandinavian Design，2002...(展开全部)

Foreword to Revised Edition; Introducing Design Culture; Design Production; Designers and Design Culture; The Consumption of Design; High Design; Consumer Goods; Branded Places; Branded Leisure; On-screen Interactivity; Communication, Management and Participation.