Design Science

Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people’s minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Diversity training programs have had limited success, and individual effort alone often invites backlash. Behavioral design offers a new solution. By de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big impacts.

This audiobook is a complete guide to UX design for beginners. It is very suitable for UX project management. You learn the essential methods of each step (strategy, discovery, ideation, iteration). The book develops techniques and concepts to know: research techniques, sorting cards, personas, experience maps, brainstorming, and tests. The book is clear and well-organized.

For decades, when criminal cases of the most unprecedented nature went to trial, one woman took the stand to separate truth from fiction. Expert Witness is the extraordinary story of forensic and psychiatric pioneer Dr. Ann Burgess—inspiration for Hulu’s forthcoming docuseries Mastermind—and how she revolutionized what it means to be an expert witness in the American court system. Written through Burgess’ singular lens of compassion and lived experience, Expert Witness pulls back the curtain on some of the biggest cases in the last thirty years.

When his missionary brother renounced faith in favor of atheism, Perry Marshall was plunged into crisis and doubt. He decided: “I”m going to let science make this decision for me.” He asked: “Is the hand at the end of my arm purposeful? Or is it purposeless?” He leapt into the void of evolution and the origin of life. He could not have begun to anticipate what he was about to discover. Living things were far more sophisticated than textbooks were saying.

ChatGPT offers incredible possibilities for beginners and seasoned users alike, bridging the gap between basic use and career-enhancing prowess. This easy-to-follow guide unveils the potential lying within, eliminating any intimidation and replacing it with confidence and creativity.

Are you passionate about sustainable living but unsure how to start a backyard chicken flock? Do you dream of gathering fresh eggs every morning but feel overwhelmed by coop design and daily care? You’re not alone, but with the right guidance, raising chickens can be simple and rewarding. Raising Chickens for Beginners is your ultimate step-by-step guide to backyard chicken keeping—from coop design and feeding to healthcare and egg collection. It’s time to take the leap and experience the benefits of raising your own chickens!

Our human energy “blueprint” is in a constant state of flux as we grow and change. As our creative ability expands, and our ability to fulfill the potential for a peaceful, just, and sustainable world grows, knowing about the new Global Cycle we’re about to enter has never been more important.

Design is everywhere. Take a look around you right now, and consider the products and services we use every day. You'll notice that our computer and phone operating systems, our web browsers, and the apps we use to work, order food, socialize, and even date have been designed by UX specialists to offer you the best experiences when using their products and services. Of course, not all online experiences are designed with our best interests in mind. That's exactly why UX design is such an exciting and rewarding field.

Whether your garden is big or small or you are a complete beginner, building raised beds can help you achieve the perfect garden. It offers many benefits over traditional gardening, including—improving the drainage, being able to manage the quality of the soil, extending your growing season, along with many more. And you don’t need to be an expert to build and manage raised beds.

With rapidly changing architecture and API-driven automation, cloud platforms come with unique security challenges and opportunities. In this updated second edition, you'll examine security best practices for multivendor cloud environments, whether your company plans to move legacy on-premises projects to the cloud or build a new infrastructure from the ground up.

Tras décadas de expansión descontrolada, más personas que nunca están volviendo a la ciudad. La vida urbana densa se ha prescrito como la panacea para la crisis medioambiental y de recursos de nuestro tiempo. ¿Pero es mejor o peor para nuestra felicidad? ¿Son el metro, las aceras y las torres de apartamentos una mejora respecto a la dependencia del coche en los suburbios?

When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step further, to consider the larger context in which accidents occur. In To Forgive Design he surveys some of the most infamous failures of our time.

An amazing product from Maurice Jayson, An Insider’s Guide to Ace System Design Interviews is a systematic guide on how to answer difficult questions from system design interviewers. Maurice has headed several panels of interviewers looking to recruit system and user interface designers and has compiled a list of recurrent questions and hidden intricacies that all system designers should know when job hunting.

Written and read by the man whose resumé boasts "Inventor of the World Wide Web," Weaving the Web is the not-to-be-missed story of how the Internet came to be and where its creator thinks it's going.

Land that job! An in-depth overview of system design and how to prepare for your interview. When it comes to answering system design questions, many of us don't know where to start. We don't have the logic and knowledge to effectively communicate back a reply that impresses the interviewer. System Design Interview: A Strategic Guide for a Successful Interview is an easy-to-understand, step-by-step book that provides clarity on how to prepare and respond to questions in an interview.

Speculative futures—design approaches that help us visualize new and potential worlds—move us beyond what currently exists into what could one day be. Inspired by art, film, fiction, and industrial design, they use speculation to provoke, imagine, and dream into what lies ahead. Written for futurists, urbanists, and artists looking to enact city-wide transformation—and for listeners at the intersection of disruption, design, innovation, and city living—this book offers creative paths toward urban resilience, using design tools that already exist.

Have you ever gone to a theme park and wondered, "How did they do that?" At last there's a book that tells you. Theme Park Design reveals the secrets behind some of the world's greatest attractions. Take a peek behind the scenes, with a theme park engineer. Aimed at theme park enthusiasts, the book features behind the scenes information based upon author Steve Alcorn's 35 years designing attractions.

Stitched Up delves into the alluring world of fashion to reveal what is behind the clothes we wear. Moving between Karl Lagerfeld and Karl Marx, the book explores consumerism, class, and advertising to reveal the interests which benefit from exploitation. Tansy E. Hoskins dissects fashion’s vampiric relationship with the planet and with our bodies to uncover what makes it so damaging.

Mergulhe em IA Encontra o UX: Projetando a Próxima Geração de Produtos Centrados no Usuário, o audiolivro definitivo para designers, gerentes de produto, desenvolvedores e entusiastas de IA. Este guia passo a passo explora como criar experiências éticas, inovadoras e centradas no usuário, impulsionadas pela inteligência artificial.

In 1951 South Africa, Sunny Kumar is part of an elite, scientific team developing futuristic AI technology, the likes of which the world has never seen. When there is a security breach at the mining corporation lab where he works, Sunny is forced to run for his life losing his country, the woman he loves, and himself. Trapped in a dangerous, high-stakes rivalry between two powerful nations, he must confront his past to discover the truth and clear his name.