Career Design

Hartmut Esslinger, internationally acclaimed designer and founder of frog design, inc., reveals the secrets to better business through better design. Having spent 40 years helping build the world's most recognizable brands, Esslinger shows how business leaders and designers can join forces to build creative strategies that will ensure a more profitable and sustainable future.

Do you want to create social impact, but feel there must be a better way? There is. So many problems the world faces go largely unaddressed because social entrepreneurs are unaware that they hold the power to design a better organization for creating more effective social impact. Not anymore.

Despite the familiar limitations many User Experience teams face—budget and time constraints, lack of formal authority—UX practitioners are uniquely poised to provide strategic value to product organizations. This case study describes how we developed “Creative Bursts” to prove that our organization could look to its UX team for innovation leadership.

The 50 tips in High Conversion E-Mail Copywriting can fine-tune your e-mail copywriting skills to make your customers more loyal, your prospects more responsive and your list more profitable. Understanding the way that your prospects and customers read their e-mail will help you create messages that will gain and hold their attention, boosting response rates to new levels.

Hire by Design describes design thinking and explains the different ways you can utilize design thinking in talent acquisition. The book covers the different pieces of the talent acquisition strategy and then provides examples of how to use design thinking in each piece. Templates are provided that will enable the listeners to implement design thinking into their business and hiring practices.

“Know thyself” (Know thy business!) Discover your own unique strategy to create an enterprise that embodies you, affords prosperity, brings the right people into your life and serves a community of people who desire your products and services. Otherwise known as The Zen Side of business ownership.

Money Anxiety is a behavioral economics book exploring how financial anxiety impacts consumer behavior. The book explains why we make instinctive financial decisions, why we are more risk averse when stressed, and why we hate to lose more than we love to win.

If you've ever tried to use search engine optimization but failed to get the web traffic your content deserves, then you know that learning SEO is confusing if not outright daunting. Where to start? Now take Facebook: A colossal entity with over one billion daily users interacting with each other and checking their newsfeed constantly - any smart digital entrepreneur will recognize the utmost importance of effectively using Facebook - the most powerful form of social media - to their advantage.

Do work you love. Sounds simple, doesn't it? But the reality can be quite different. Whether you're just starting out or simply ready to head in a new direction, you're going to need some help turning your natural skills into success-seeking missiles of radness. On hand is Gavin Strange, a creative working by night under the name of JamFactory and by day at Aardman Animations - the Academy Award-winning studio behind Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep.

The book you have at hand, more than just writing, is an activation and empowerment tool that we all should read, especially women who are not willing to let anything that has happened to them prevent them from being what God has determined.

Innovation ist heute der erfolgs- und wettbewerbsentscheidende Faktor für Unternehmen. Doch auf Knopfdruck kreativ zu sein ist gar nicht so einfach. Die gute Nachricht: Innovation ist kein Zufall - mit Design Thinking.

This book is not fiction or click-bait. It's a real story about my life and how I got started off in my career, while literally starting from scratch with no industry connections. By making a plan, taking a few leaps of faith, trying something new, and being my authentic self, I was able to go from stocking shelves to securing seven internships in my field both in the US and abroad doing what I love the most. As CEO of Dalvin Digital Design and a full-time software engineer, I, Dalvin Sejour will go through a step-by-step guide to replicate my early career success.

We are facing a future of unbounded complexity. Whether that complexity is harnessed to build a world that is safe, pleasant, humane and profitable, or whether it causes us to careen off a cliff into an abyss of mind-numbing junk is an open question. The challenges and opportunities - technical, business, and human - that this technological sea change will bring are without precedent. Entire industries will be born and others will be laid to ruin as our society navigates this journey.

We can't predict the future, yet we do it all the time. We organize projects, events, days, weeks, and years. We plan to buy a home, build a career, travel, get married, raise children, teach a class, retire, or get in shape. Our ability to model the world as it is and might be is a gift, but mental time travel is also really hard. Fortunately, since planning is a skill, everyone from playful improviser to rigorous planner can greatly improve, if they are ready to learn.

Threading the Needle: A Fashion Designer’s Guide to Successfully Launching Your First Collection will also provide guidance on how to establish relationships with suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers, as well as tips for managing finances and budgeting effectively. The goal is to help you avoid common pitfalls and overcome obstacles as you launch your first collection—this book will hopefully serve as your main point of reference on your journey as you continue to make an impact on the world.

This audiobook has been designed to give you insight that could lead to a happier, more fulfilled life. We all experience these rough seasons and moments of unhappiness. You are not alone. The idea is to not get stuck in the same patterns and to push yourself forward towards change. Happiness is a self-taught emotion which starts with recognizing that you need to change your actions to get different, happier results.

Welche Mechanismen sind zu entdecken, durch die mit Design der Unternehmenserfolg höchstwahrscheinlich – oder noch besser – unausweichlich eintritt? Es geht darum, zu wissen warum man etwas macht, wie man etwas macht und darum, daraus abzuleiten, wie man es besser machen könnte. Nicht auf einer abstrakten theoretischen Ebene (bloß der Theorie wegen), sondern in der Anwendung im Alltag.

When the coronavirus hit the world, workers were flung from organized offices to fend for themselves at home, where kids, spouses, and housework beg for attention 24/7. Learning to find focus amid distractions, or finish work when you live at the office, will be essential to conquer the new work-from-home normal.

With the hustle culture, it is a bit difficult to solve challenges in less time as well as achieve goals like team development and meeting customer needs. Design Thinking Journey is a fundamental audiobook for the development and growth of your team as well as to understand your customer’s needs to meet them. The audiobook helps you learn how to improve customer experience and also make sure your team is at the top of their game throughout, thereby ensuring a win-win situation for your business.

The Books of Light is an enlightening and healing book, relating the messages of the Angels about time, light, life, and darkness. The angels talk about the divine, about heaven and about good. They also talk about you. These words from the angels will help you to live more peacefully and make sense of your life and the world. They may also give you spiritual healing.