Product Design

Following in the footsteps of its bestselling predecessor, Kevin J. Duggan, an executive mentor and recognized authority on Lean and Operational Ex...

Understand the Strategic Behavior in Queueing SystemsRational Queueing provides one of the first unified accounts of the dynamic aspects involved i...

Open innovation, crowd sourcing, democratised innovation, vernacular design and brand fanaticism are amongst a handful of new approaches to design ...

With so many new lighting technologies available for a wide range of visual environments, how do you choose the options that best address the needs...

Design education and practice are inherently social from process to implementation. This book explores the transformation in design education, as e...

This book addresses how to make Kaizen a formidable competitive weapon. It serves as reinforcement for the key role the Lean coordinator holds in t...

This book provides an understanding of the concept of marketing and its role in business and public organization including the need for scientific ...

This book discusses the most significant ways in which design has been applied to sustainability challenges using an evolutionary perspective. It p...

This book discusses the most significant ways in which design has been applied to sustainability challenges using an evolutionary perspective. It p...

There are luxuries that most of us will never be able to afford in a lifetime, but just off the shores of the moneyed is a huge, fast growing, land...

This book provides an understanding of the concept of marketing and its role in business and public organization including the need for scientific ...

Who can design? For too long, that question has highlighted the supposed division between right-brain dominant “creative types” and left-brain domi...

This is the first all-encompassing book about the visual language of man-made products, explaining how mass-produced objects evolve over time and w...

Pioneering and exceptional design trends are at the heart of Focus Open 2017. Companies and professional designers from around the world were invit...

Matthew Boulton was an 18th-century designer, inventor, and industrialist, a consummate businessman, and co-founder of the influential Lunar Societ...

This book deals with the fundamentals of specification writing and management. It is useful for anyone concerned with the preparation of standards ...

Change and transformation are currently characteristic not only of our society and our socio-cultural structures, but also our economic structures ...

Reintroducing Materials for Sustainable Design provides instrumental theory and practical guidance to bring materials back into a central role in t...

If people from different fields are going to work together on projects, then they need to begin to understand each other. They can be separated by ...

The automobile is the ultimate analogue machine and mankind’s most ingenious, seductive and damaging invention. For over a century, cars have provi...

An examination of the various types of human-modeled technology, Advances in Applied Human Modeling and Simulation not only covers the type of mode...

A pioneer of architectural history Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000) entered the modernist canon with her “Frankfurt Kitchen.” She is also co...

Why do winning brands appear to be more creative and authentic than less successful ones? Despite the strong link between famous brands and the pro...

Our modern view of quality is a multifaceted conglomeration of probability, planning, and perception. Although warranties are important first as an...

"Focuses on functional, aesthetically pleasing, mechanically reliable, and easily made products that improve profitability for manufacturers and pr...

The Routledge Companion to Design Research offers a comprehensive examination of design research, celebrating the plurality of design research and ...

This book defines, develops, and examines the foundations of the APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) methodology. It explains in detail the fi...

Surrealism was one of the most influential cultural movements of the twentieth century. Subverting the dogmas of modernism and rationalism in art a...

The book Serial Eater dissects 30 years of experimentation and reflection on the 'object' food. Since its development in the 1990s until its actu...

An Illustrated Guide to Furniture History provides upper-level students and instructors with an alternative visual analytical approach to learning ...

Manufacturers from Germany enjoy a worldwide reputation. Whether porcelain, watches, organs or writing implements, the origin of artisanal craftsma...

Otto Prutscher (1880-1949) gilt in Fachkreisen als einer der bedeutendsten österreichischen Architekten und Gestalter von Innenräumen und kunstgew...

This book describes the uses of different mathematical modeling and soft computing techniques used in epidemiology for experiential research in pro...

Cultivate a socially responsible design process with Universal Methods of Ethical Design, the first comprehensive survey of ethically centered desi...

Updated version featuring all new material. If you have ever looked for P-values by shopping at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trails on "Pe...

The most complete survey available on the work of London-based Ron Arad (b.1951), one of the most successful and creative contemporary designers of...

Imagine you're in a game with one objective: a bestselling product or service. The rules? No marketing budget, no PR stunts, and it must be sustain...

Design Roots provides a comprehensive review of culturally significant designs, products and practices which are rooted to particular communities t...

In real life, data is messy and doesn’t always fit into normal statistical distributions. This is especially true in service industries where the v...

Product and service designers place increasing emphasis on the colour, form and appearance of what their organization offers and the language with ...