Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Your Life and Maybe Even the World
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (838 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0030EY8BU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 258 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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The original version of this book was titled Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Your Life, and Maybe Even the World.An illuminating journey through today's fascinating world of design.What can we learn from the ways great designers think-and how can it improve our lives? In CAD Monkeys, Dinosaur Babies, and T-Shaped People Warren Berger, in collaboration with celebrated designer Bruce Mau, revolutionizes our understanding of design and unlocks the secrets of the trade. The practice of design-thinking opens readers to their innate capacity for reimagining the world around them.. Looking to the creative problem-solving work of design professionals, Berger reveals that design is a mindset, a way of looking at the world with an eye toward improving it
How to think more creatively, and ultimately, how to open up new possibilities in our lives.These are the things that great designers do every day. And how applicable they are to just about any situation.In today's world, with all the challenges and problems we have to grapple with—both in our daily lives and in the world at large—we can benefit from having that designer mindset and methodology. All of us have ideas in our heads, but designers make their ideas real and tangible-by sketching, by modeling, by scotch-taping things together. And this is a technique anyone can use. In fact there's a joke that asks, "How many designers does it take to change a lightbulb?" To which the answer is: "Does it have to be a lightbulb?"It's a joke, but it's not: D
"Living by Design" according to Kathleen. Despite my verbalized commitment to live life by design and not default, I never thought to mine the minds of those who mastered the art and science of "Design." Specially, to look to them for insights, practices and secrets by which I might benefit. Thanks to Warren Berger, those design fundamentals were delivered to me in a provocative, interesting and useful framework. Just as with Berger's other book, A More Beautiful Question, in CAD Monkeys, Dinosaur Babies and . Enticing look into the world of design today and it's ever evolving definition and application. Enticing look into the world of design today and it's ever evolving definition and application. The text meanders at times, but time and time again offers a taste of what is possible if we adopt design thinking into our careers, communities, and personal lives.. GREAT REAF Great read for anyone looking for a new perspectives and ideas relating to design and development! I'm using this for my major.