The Design of Everyday Things
Donald Norman’s design classic – the bible on the cognitive aspects of design, containing examples of both good and bad design and simple rules that designers can use to improve the usability of objects.
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Design for Real World
The entire Design for Real World. You can read chapter 1 as enriching material.
Shipping Container
Craig Martin’s book illuminates the “development of containerization”- including design history, standardization, aesthetics, and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of shipping containers.
Participatory Design History
A chapter of the Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Design on the Heritage (aka history) of participatory design.
Het ontstaan van professionele industriele vormgeving
Chapter 6 from John Heskett’s book Industrial Design. This excerpt is from the Dutch translation and covers the rise of industrial design as a profession. Pay attention to the industrial, technological and economic context in which the profession arose. Enjoy, but don’t worry about all the examples.
In the Bubble
A book by John Thackara about how to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people.
A (very) brief history of interaction design
An excerpt from Chapter 1 of Dan Saffer’s Designing for Interaction. It describes the history of interaction design from the perspective of the products that resulted from user-centered design.
Don’t worry about all the details and chronology, read this as a history of interaction design from the perspective of an interaction designer.
The Art of Innovation
Partner of IDEO, Tom Kelley, tells about their way of working behind the scenes: leading to both big successes and joyful failures.
Sketching
This book by Koos Eissen and Roselien Steur covers essential sketching techniques for product designers. The drawing techniques from this book are taught at this faculty and are also part of a formalisation and visual vocabulary that is very influential in our faculty.
User Friendly
Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need.