Resources
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Recommended ReadingA Book of Things
Jasper Morrison's personal collection of the products and projects that fill and shape our lives — a designer's quiet argument for the value of ordinary, well-made things. A monograph of understated design Outcomes.
Recommended Reading360 Industrial Design: Basics of the Analytical Product Design
Emami walks the full arc of industrial design from first idea to mass production, in illustrated, digestible steps. A working compendium of the SDF's Procedures component — the means and methods that carry a concept through to a finished Outcome.
Recommended Reading101 Things I Learned in Product Design School
A hundred and one crisp lessons that demystify what product designers actually do — a field that borrows from psychology, anthropology, ergonomics, materials and more. A friendly on-ramp to the discipline's institutional facet: how the profession comes to understand and teach itself.
Recommended Reading100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People
A hundred research-backed insights into how people see, think, remember and decide — the psychology a designer is really working with. A compact handbook for the SDF's cornerstone Humans component: design as an intrinsically human act.