New Releases Bundle

What this bundle includes:

• Research That Scales: 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
• 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”).
• Design That Scales: Creating a Sustainable Design System Practice: Learn how to create, manage, and sustain  a successful design system.
• Interviewing Users (2nd Edition) How to Uncover Compelling Insights: Learn to conduct interviews with anyone. And glean rich insights from each user you speak with.
• Design for Learning: User Experience in Online Teaching and Learning: Learn how to apply industry best practices, how-to examples, powerful templates, and compelling activities to craft compelling instructional content—whether text, audio, or video
• 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.

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.

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.

Liftoff!

Liftoff! is your guide to leveling up as a design manager and leader. Its experience-driven approach—written by designers for designers—will help you hire and scale teams, develop careers, learn why diversity matters to your business, and solidify design’s role in your organization. Liftoff! will elevate your skills to lead your team and company to new heights.

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.

Enterprise User Experience Bundle

What this bundle includes:

1. Managing Chaos: Digital governance and its transformative power to support creativity, real collaboration, digital quality, and online growth.
2. 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.
3. Digital and Marketing Asset Management: 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.
4. Orchestrating Experiences: A practical guide for designers and everyone struggling to create products and services in complex environments.
5. Living in Information: Draws upon architecture as a way to design information environments that serve our humanity.
6. Managing Priorities: How to Create Better Plans and Make Smarter Decisions
7. Service Design: Powerful insights, methods, and case studies to help you design, implement, and measure multichannel service experiences with greater impact for customers, businesses, and society.

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.

From Solo to Scaled

Content strategy is clearly critical to your organization, but where do you start, and how do you grow it into a true practice? Whether you’re a lone content person tasked with creating a content strategy practice from scratch, or a leader struggling to scale one up, From Solo to Scaled is your blueprint for creating and managing a content strategy practice that is sustainable and successful.

Designing Agentive Technology

Advances in narrow artificial intelligence make possible agentive systems that do things directly for their users (like, say, an automatic pet feeder). They deliver on the promise of user-centered design, but present fresh challenges in understanding their unique promises and pitfalls. Designing Agentive Technology provides both a conceptual grounding and practical advice to unlock agentive technology’s massive potential.

Usable Color

Color permeates design. Yet color training is typically limited to color theory, marketing, and limited accessibility issues, leaving its full power unrealized. Color can reduce cognitive load, turn data into quantitative or qualitative knowledge, and help users make better decisions.

Just as the right chart type helps tell an honest data story, the right colors can make data visualization and software more usable. With this book (or workshop), designers will better:

• Understand the specific ways color conveys information.
• Apply color usability guidelines (including data visualization for the color-blind).
• Reduce confusion and improve decision-making for users.