Life and Death Design

Emergencies—landing a malfunctioning plane, resuscitating a heart attack victim, or avoiding a head-on car crash—all require split-second decisions that can mean life or death. Fortunately, designers of life-saving products have leveraged research and brain science to help users reduce panic and harness their best instincts. Life and Death Design brings these techniques to everyday designers who want to help their users think clearly and act safely.

Design for Privacy

Living and working online means grappling with the impact of a dizzying array of online privacy issues. Service providers offer opaque explanations for why they need our data and what they’re doing with it. Many deploy deceptive experiences to access and handle or even sell our personal data. What can we do as designers to understand these issues, address them with our stakeholders, and avoid them during the design process, so we can minimize their impact upon users?

Design for Privacy will advocate for the practice of “privacy by design” and examine specific and often alarming examples of these issues. You’ll learn the four “pillars” for privacy-centered experience design and best practices, with both good and bad examples to visualize problems along the way, so you can design more confidently with privacy in mind. And you’ll learn to cultivate a culture which enables privacy by design

Content Strategy Bundle

What this bundle includes:

• Design That Scales: Creating a Sustainable Design System Practice: Learn how to create, manage, and sustain a successful design system.
• From Solo to Scaled: Your blueprint for creating and managing a content strategy practice that is sustainable and successful.
• Conversations with Things: Teaches you how to design conversations that are useful, ethical, and human-centered.
• Writing Is Designing: Shows you how to give your users clarity, test your words, and collaborate with your team.
• Digital and Marketing Asset Management: For digital professionals who want to master the life cycles behind creating, storing, and reusing media need the inside scoop on how digital and media asset management technology really works.
• Managing Chaos: Digital governance and its transformative power to support creativity, real collaboration, digital quality, and online growth.
• Content Everywhere: Stop creating fixed, single-purpose content and start making it more future-ready, flexible, reusable, manageable, and meaningful wherever it needs to go.
• Strategic Content Design: Tools and Research Techniques for Better UX: Get a toolbox with hard-won methods, best practices, and proven tips for conducting quantitative and qualitative content-focused research and testing.

Conversations with Things

Welcome to the future, where you can talk with the digital things around you: voice assistants, chatbots, and more. But these interactions can be unhelpful and frustrating—sometimes even offensive or biased. Conversations with Things teaches you how to design conversations that are useful, ethical, and human-centered—because everyone deserves to be understood, especially you.

Who this book is for

• Design practitioners involved in creating digital products, who are beginning their journey into conversational interfaces.
• Developers who have built voice or chatbot projects, but may not be familiar with advanced design – or even what it truly means to design something.
• Other non-technical members of the team, like PMs and BAs who need to understand the process, and sales reps new to conversational interface products.

Designing Interface Animation

Effective interface animation deftly combines form and function to improve feedback, aid in orientation, direct attention, show causality, and express your brand’s personality. Designing Interface Animation shows you how to create web animation that balances purpose and style while blending seamlessly into the user’s experience. This book is a crash course in motion design theory and practice for web designers, UX professionals, and front-end developers alike.

Mental Models

There is no single methodology for creating the perfect product—but you can increase your odds. One of the best ways is to understand users’ reasons for doing things.  Mental Models gives you the tools to help you grasp, and design for, those reasons.  Adaptive Path co-founder Indi Young has written a roll-up-your-sleeves book for designers, managers, and anyone else interested in making design strategic, and successful.

Design Leadership Bundle

What this bundle includes:

• Design That Scales: Creating a Sustainable Design System Practice: Learn how to create, manage, and sustain a successful design system.
• Blind Spot: Learn how exceptional organizations—from Disney to Instagram—innovate and sustain valuable, productive customer relationships.
• Changemakers: How Leaders Can Design Change in an Insanely Complex World: An essential playbook for designers and nondesigners who want to drive change at work, at home, and in their communities.
• Deliberate Intervention: Using Policy and Design to Blunt the Harms of New Technology: Your blueprint for creating and managing a content strategy practice that is sustainable and successful.
• The Jobs To Be Done Playbook: Align Your Markets, Organization, and Strategy Around Customer Needs
• The Leader’s Journey: Transforming Your Leadership to Achieve the Extraordinary: This step-by-step book draws on psychology, neuroscience, design thinking, and years of coaching experience to help you activate your superpowers and achieve your mission.
• Managing Priorities: How to Create Better Plans and Make Smarter Decisions
• Liftoff! Practical Design Leadership to Elevate Your Team, Your Organization, and You: Your guide to leveling up as a design manager and leader.
• Managing Chaos: Digital governance and its transformative power to support creativity, real collaboration, digital quality, and online growth.
• The Right Way to Select Technology: Learn a practical, adaptive process that relies on realistic storytelling and hands-on testing to get the best fit for your enterprise.
• We Need to Talk: A Survival Guide for Tough Conversations: Build confidence in hard conversations with real-world strategies for empathy, psychological safety, and navigating conflict at work or in life.

DesignOps Bundle

What this bundle includes:

• The Design Conductors: Your Essential Guide to Design Operations: Learn how to successfully advocate for, build out, scale up, and ultimately operate design organizations.
• Research That Scales: The ultimate playbook for transforming your research practice, whatever its size or shape, into an impactful and efficient insight-generating engine.
• Managing Priorities: How to Create Better Plans and Make Smarter Decisions
• Design That Scales: Creating a Sustainable Design System Practice: Learn how to create, manage, and sustain a successful design system.
• Meeting Design: Design principles and innovative approaches you’ll need to transform meetings from boring to creative, from wasteful to productive.
• The Right Way to Select Technology: Learn a practical, adaptive process that relies on realistic storytelling and hands-on testing to get the best fit for your enterprise.
• Project Management for Humans: Estimate and plan tasks, scout and address issues before they become problems, and communicate with and hold people accountable.
• Orchestrating Experiences: A practical guide for designers and everyone struggling to create products and services in complex environments.
• Managing Chaos: Digital governance and its transformative power to support creativity, real collaboration, digital quality, and online growth.

New Releases Bundle

What this bundle includes:

• Stop Wasting Research: Maximize the Product Impact of Your Organization’s Customer Insights: Use research more effectively to fuel product innovation and cross-team collaboration.
• We Need to Talk: A Survival Guide for Tough Conversations: Build confidence in hard conversations with real-world strategies for empathy, psychological safety, and navigating conflict at work or in life.
• Human-Centered Security: How to Design Systems That Are Both Safe and Usable: Ensure that your organization’s security experience is strong and effective.
• The Design Conductors: Your Essential Guide to Design Operations: Learn how to successfully advocate for, build out, scale up, and ultimately operate design organizations.
• Research That Scales: The Research Operations Handbook: The ultimate playbook for transforming your research practice, whatever its size or shape, into an impactful and efficient insight-generating engine.
• The User Experience Team of One (2nd edition): A Research and Design Survival Guide: A comprehensive and essential guide for UX and product designers everywhere
• Design for Impact: Your Guide to Designing Effective Product Experiments: A down-to-earth A/B testing guide that features the Conversion Design process to operationalize effective experimentation in your company.
• Managing Priorities: How to Create Better Plans and Make Smarter Decisions: Your guide to prioritizing anything—anytime and anywhere. Harry Max digs into the best practices for prioritization and brings them together in a single, practical method that you can apply step by step.
• Duly Noted: Extend Your Mind through Connected Notes: Learn best-practice note-taking principles so you can connect your notes to one another to create a personal network of ideas (your own personal “knowledge garden”).

Changemakers

Today’s radically complex problems require people to lead with design. Changemakers is an essential playbook for designers and nondesigners who want to drive change at work, at home, and in their communities. Groundbreaking designers Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland—armed with insights from some of today’s top minds in business, tech, and social justice—offer a pragmatic, people-centered approach to change.

Who Should Read This Book?

Changemakers can be designers, leaders, CEOs, tech people, project managers, product people—virtually anyone who wants to embrace and address change. This book will show them how to do it by clearly defining, studying, and addressing change as a design problem to be solved.

Takeaways

• A new approach to change is emerging, and design is at the forefront of responding and provoking change.
• Purpose and passion are essential changemaker qualities.
• Change involves choosing the right problem and finding an entity open to change.
• This book will be your guide for creating and maintaining change in your organization—for you, your team, and your stakeholders.
• Leaders can design change and affect the world—this book will show them how to become that kind of leader.
• Each chapter has critical takeaways at the end of the chapter, summarizing important points.
• Each chapter gives the reader a list of extra sources to gain further knowledge.

Available from Audible and other major audiobook sellers.