"The Designing for Growth Field Book: A Step-by-Step Project Guide (1e 2014, 2e 2019), provided readers with guidance on using design as a powerful tool to boost the innovation by offering them a step-by-step guide to applying the D4G toolkit in project work. However, the authors have identified...

Design is an exploratory activity, and there are many ways to get lost or stuck. There is no pre-existing map – the map is built through the design process. We first discuss design space - the space of possible choices in creating something new - and how it can be visualized. We then discuss...

Introduction : for whom the love works in digital game production? -- The unequal ludopolitical regime of game production : who can play, who has to work? -- The end of the garage studio as a technomasculine space : financial security, streamlined creativity, and signs of friction -- Gaming the...

Introduction : for whom the love works in digital game production? -- The unequal ludopolitical regime of game production : who can play, who has to work? -- The end of the garage studio as a technomasculine space : financial security, streamlined creativity, and signs of friction -- Gaming the...

This study explores the differentiated properties of service design in the context of the final value pursued by this methodology, avoiding the interpretation of pending issues to which service design is applied. First, the following were identified as the core properties of service design,...

Das Buch stellt in 32 Kapiteln "Die Großen Köpfe" der Schweizer Innovations- und Kreativszene aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart vor, welche die Gemeinsamkeit in der Gegensätzlichkeit manifestiert. Einige Beispiele: Der Designer und Ingenieur Hans Hilfiker, dessen Bahnhofsuhr zu den Designikonen...

Paris, die Stadt der Mode, mit ihrem Glamour und der Verheissung von Schönheit, Glück und Prestige, die sich aber bei einem genaueren Blick als Traum und Illusion erweisen. Hier in Paris hat die italienische Autorin studiert und in ihrer Dissertation über die Modebranche hinter die Kulissen...

"Design for Global Challenges and Goals charts the developments, opportunities and challenges for design research in addressing global challenges facing the developing world, focusing on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. The book explores the role design and social responsibility play in...

This book examines how to optimize design management processes in order to produce innovation within organizations. It first looks at how to harvest a culture of design and then examines topics specific to product and service design. Individual chapters provide anecdotes drawn from leading...

This paper analyzes processes and effects of ICT enabled innovation in the Dutch design sector. Although the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is considered as vital in the design sector, little is known about whether and how ICTs affect the firm performance of small...

The constructions - a branch that is in close agreement with the overall evolution of Romanian economy - are confronted with the same hardships from a fiscal viewpoint, and not only that, as the whole economic activity from Romania. In the period following the year 1990, the business environment...

After the year 1989 Romania faced an unpreceded intensification of the legislative activity. But what worries the most is not the great number of normative acts, but their imperfection. Being unsufficiently elaborated, after their coming in operation they were modified and completed by other...