Tag: Design

Free Download Hypothesis Generation and Interpretation: Design Principles and Patterns for Big Data Applications by Hiroshi Ishikawa
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 380 Pages | ISBN : 3031435397 | 68.4 MB
This book focuses in detail on data science and data analysis and emphasizes the importance of data engineering and data management in the design of big data applications. The author uses patterns discovered in a collection of big data applications to provide design principles for hypothesis generation, integrating big data processing and management, machine learning and data mining techniques.

Free Download Bethany Simunich, "High-Impact Design for Online Courses"
English | ISBN: 1032580658 | 2024 | 306 pages | PDF | 7 MB
High-Impact Design for Online Courses introduces higher education professionals to an eight-step course design model that leverages the unique considerations of online and hybrid modalities at each stage in the process. Though relevant to and informed by instructional designers and educational technologists, this book is specifically geared toward faculty who lack the administrative and technical supports they need to thrive in the new normal. Each chapter includes step-by-step guidance on learner analysis, course structure, appropriate activities and assessments, continuous improvement, and other key elements of a successful digital course. Teachers across disciplines and levels of experience will come away newly inspired and motivated with fresh insights into planning and drafting, practical tips for pedagogy and design, opportunities for self-reflection and course revision, and implications for learner-centered delivery.

Free Download Alan Berman, "Green Design: A Healthy Home Handbook"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0711228345 | PDF | pages: 210 | 102.8 mb
Architect Alan Berman helps his clients meld style with sustainability. Here, he offers all the information readers need to make environmentally responsible decisions for their homes. Fully illustrated with photographs, diagrams, and easy-to-follow charts, the book covers all the key topics, including floors, furniture, fabrics, and finishes, working with recycled materials, household appliances, home energy systems, and a reassessment of traditional design. An expanded and updated directory helps readers locate environmentally friendly materials and organizations.

Free Download Fundamentals of User-Centered Design: A Practical Approach by Brian Still, Kate Crane
English | August 25th, 2017 | ISBN: 1498764363 | 348 pages | True EPUB | 14.19 MB
There has been some solid work done in the area of User-Centered Design (UCD) over the last few years. What’s been missing is an in-depth, comprehensive textbook that connects UCD to usability and User Experience (UX) principles and practices. This new textbook discusses a theoretical framework in relation to other design theories. It provides a repeatable, practical process for implementation, offering numerous examples, methods, and case studies for support, and it emphasizes best practices in specific environments, including mobile and web applications, print products, as well as hardware.

Free Download Henderik A. Proper, "Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing: 27th International Conference, EDOC 2023, Groningen, The Netherlands, Octo"
English | ISBN: 3031465865 | 2024 | 248 pages | PDF | 13 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing, EDOC 2023, held in Groningen, The Netherlands, during October 30-November 3, 2023.

Free Download Alexiei Dingli, Alexander Pfeiffer, Alesha Serada, "Disruptive Technologies in Media, Arts and Design"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030937798 | PDF | pages: 222 | 6.3 mb
This book presents selected proceedings from two installments of the MAD Conference in 2020―MAD Blockchain 2020 and MAD Artificial Intelligence 2020. These events focused on applications of these novel technologies in media, arts and design. A number of researchers present their own projects and practical implementations of blockchain and AI in games, art, education and sustainable living, while other authors explore theoretical and ethical questions that these technologies bring into society. First and foremost, we recommend this book to aspiring scholars and practitioners who are also building new solutions using blockchain and AI. Besides, the book extends the existing scholarship on AI and blockchain and provides proven cases and tools for education in ICT.

Free Download Stephen Boss, "Digital Type Design for Branding: Designing Letters from their Source"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1498777201, 0815365535 | PDF | pages: 221 | 116.7 mb
The approach will be to give visual aid (illustrated) and written reference to young designers who are either launching their careers or taking their first stab at designing letterforms for a logo, lettermark, signage, advertising or an alphabet. The book will focus on the roots of each letterform and give the designers the knowledge of why weight variations (stress) exist and how to correctly apply them to their designs.

Free Download Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered (The MIT Press) by Donald A. Norman
English | March 21st, 2023 | ISBN: 0262548305, 0262047950 | 374 pages | True PDF | 3.99 MB
How human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us.

Free Download Design for Resilience: Making the Future We Leave Behind by Stuart Walker
English | August 1st, 2023 | ISBN: 0262048094 | 414 pages | True PDF | 33.18 MB
A beautifully written and illustrated framework for resilient design that is as pragmatic as it is inspiring, showing us not only how but why we should design differently.

Free Download Design That Scales: Creating a Sustainable Design System Practice by Dan Mall
English | November 28th, 2023 | ISBN: 1959029215 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 43.43 MB
After years of building the same interface elements, some designers and developers get wise and try to create reusable, common solutions to help everyone stop reinventing the wheel every time. Most fail. In Design That Scales, design systems expert Dan Mall draws on his extensive experience helping some of the world’s most recognizable brands create design practices that are truly sustainable.