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Product Design / January 2025
Incorporating environmental and social factors into product design can mitigate future risks and create opportunities for sustainable growth as explored in an article by PwC. As companies navigate challenges like environmental impact, resource scarcity, and social equity, understanding how to design products responsibly equips business leaders to innovate while addressing these critical global issues. For January 2025, here are 12 books from JMU’s print and electronic collections that examine responsible product design.
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Design for Impact
Design for Impact is a down-to-earth A/B testing guide. It has practical tips and tools to design better experiments at scale.
Tragic Design
Bad design is everywhere, and its cost is much higher than we think. This book examines real case studies that show how certain design choices adversely affected users, and includes in-depth interviews with authorities in the design industry.
Radical Product Thinking
Iteration rules product development, but it isn't enough to produce dramatic results. This book champions Radical Product Thinking, a systematic methodology for building visionary, game-changing products.
Product Design and the Role of Representation
Extends understanding of the design process by exploring design representation types and examining them as theoretical constructs. It shows how fidelity and ambiguity inform the creative act of design, and considers design thinking through the lens of design representation.
TouchIT
Digital technology is fundamentally altering the world we live in, but can only be truly understood in relation to the physical world we all inhabit. The most successful future products and policies will be those that take this rich digital/physical ecology seriously.
Better Things
Seeks to tackle the lazy 'greenwashing' terminology we see every day, providing a guide for product designers, manufacturers and consumers wishing to make better and more informed decisions about materials.