Listening To Design

Author : Andrew Levitt
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781780239538

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Listening to Design by Andrew Levitt Pdf

Listening to Design takes readers on a unique journey into the singular psychology of design. Drawing on his experience as a teacher, architect, and psychotherapist, Andrew Levitt breaks down the entire creative process, from the first moments an idea appears to the final presentation of a project. Combining telling anecdotes, practical advice, and personal insights, this book offers a rarely seen glimpse into the often turbulent creative process of a working designer. It highlights the importance of active listening, the essential role of empathy in solving problems and overcoming obstacles, and reveals how the act of designing is a vehicle for personal development and a profound opportunity for self-transformation. With clear, jargon-free, and inspirational prose, sections on “Storytelling and the Big Idea,” “Listening and Receiving,” “Getting Stuck,” “Empathy and Collaboration,” and “Presenting and Persuading” signal a larger shift in design toward staying true to creative instincts and learning to trust the surprising power and resilience of the creative process itself. This enlightening and timely book is essential reading for designers, architects, and readers working in all creative fields.

Author : Homer Ulrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:773236525

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Music by Homer Ulrich Pdf

Author : Turel, Vehbi
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799878780

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Design Solutions for Adaptive Hypermedia Listening Software by Turel, Vehbi Pdf

Adaptive hypermedia listening software enables materials writers to combine and deliver a wide range of digital elements on the same digital computer platform more efficiently. Such a combination and delivery provides a multidimensional, multi-sensory digital environment in which rich, efficient, instant, comprehensible, optimum, and meaningful input and feedback can be presented effectively and efficiently. Moreover, language learners’ attention can be drawn to forms and meanings in input. Such aspects correspond with different theories and hypotheses of language learning and teaching. This presents users/learners with an environment that is easy to use, tension-free, and optimal during self-study. However, to be able to design and develop cost effective and professional adaptive hypermedia listening software, there are certain scientific educational findings and implications that need to be implemented at every single stage. To have access to such vital findings is not so easy, and research must address this area. Design Solutions for Adaptive Hypermedia Listening Software explores how to design and create technically and pedagogically sound and efficient interactive adaptive hypermedia listening software for language learners in any language. The chapters will cover learner strategy tools, the effectiveness of this technology, best practices in adaptive hypermedia listening software, and the benefits and challenges of this technology for language learning. It is ideal for companies, institutions, teachers, policymakers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, technology developers, and decision-making pertinent government officials interested in designing and developing multimedia listening environments for language learners.

Author : Northrup, Pamela,Rasmussen, Karen,Colson, Robin
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799819295

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Career Ready Education Through Experiential Learning by Northrup, Pamela,Rasmussen, Karen,Colson, Robin Pdf

Despite the promise of competency-based education (CBE), learner-centered issues related to support, retention, and program completion rates remain problematic. In addition, the infrastructure for higher education, including issues related to faculty (intellectual property, workload, and curriculum), pose barriers and challenges in the design, development, implementation, and delivery of CBE. In response, administrators, faculty, designers, and developers of competency-based experiences must incorporate innovative strategies that are foreign to the traditional institution. A strong emphasis on retention and graduation rates must surround the student with support, starting with the design and development of the CBE system. There are few resources that can help prepare instructional designers, advisors, academic administrators, and faculty to meet the many challenges of designing, developing, implementing, and managing CBE. Career Ready Education Through Experiential Learning is an essential reference book that includes strategies for design and development of competency-based education (CBE) programs, as well as administrative and delivery strategies as examples of how CBE can be implemented. Through a strong theoretical framework, chapters present the best practices, strategies, and practical tips as examples and scenarios that can be used in higher education settings. While highlighting education courses, programs, and lessons across various institutions and educational domains, this book is ideal for higher education administrators and policy designers/implementors, instructional designers, curriculum developers, faculty, public policy leaders, students in curriculum and instruction and instructional technology programs, along with researchers and practitioners interested in CBE and experiential learning in higher education.

Author : Sasha Costanza-Chock
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262043458

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Design Justice by Sasha Costanza-Chock Pdf

An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival. What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice? “Design justice” is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims expilcitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities. It has emerged from a growing community of designers in various fields who work closely with social movements and community-based organizations around the world. This book explores the theory and practice of design justice, demonstrates how universalist design principles and practices erase certain groups of people—specifically, those who are intersectionally disadvantaged or multiply burdened under the matrix of domination (white supremacist heteropatriarchy, ableism, capitalism, and settler colonialism)—and invites readers to “build a better world, a world where many worlds fit; linked worlds of collective liberation and ecological sustainability.” Along the way, the book documents a multitude of real-world community-led design practices, each grounded in a particular social movement. Design Justice goes beyond recent calls for design for good, user-centered design, and employment diversity in the technology and design professions; it connects design to larger struggles for collective liberation and ecological survival.

Author : John Cary
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610917933

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Design for Good by John Cary Pdf

The book reveals a new understanding of the ways that design shapes our lives and gives professionals and interested citizens the tools to seek out and demand designs that dignify.

Author : Homer Ulrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Music
ISBN : LCCN:57002233

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Music by Homer Ulrich Pdf

Author : Sara Adhitya
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781911576518

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Musical Cities by Sara Adhitya Pdf

Sara Adhitya is an urban designer and Research Associate with the Accessibility Research Group at UCL. Awarded a European Doctorate in the 'Quality of Design' of Architecture and Urban Planning by the University IUAV of Venice and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, she draws on her multidisciplinary background in environmental design, architecture, urbanism, music and sound design, in her interactive and multisensorial approach to urban design. She collaborates with a range of non-profit and governmental organizations around the world towards improving urban liveability and sustainability through participatory design and planning.

Author : Ann Rand
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781616895365

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Listen! Listen! by Ann Rand Pdf

Rhyming text reveals the many sounds that can be heard if one listens closely.

Author : Kelly Ann McKercher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0648787508

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Beyond Sticky Notes by Kelly Ann McKercher Pdf

This book includes a deep-dive into the mindsets and methods of Co-design. It draws on the authors' experience across Australia and New Zealand, as well as design, trauma-informed practice, collective learning and social movements.

Author : Daniel Christian Wahl
Publisher : Triarchy Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781909470798

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Designing Regenerative Cultures by Daniel Christian Wahl Pdf

This is a ‘Whole Earth Catalog’ for the 21st century: an impressive and wide-ranging analysis of what’s wrong with our societies, organizations, ideologies, worldviews and cultures – and how to put them right. The book covers the finance system, agriculture, design, ecology, economy, sustainability, organizations and society at large.

Author : Aarron Walter,Eli Woolery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Design services
ISBN : OCLC:1191843149

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Design Leadership Handbook by Aarron Walter,Eli Woolery Pdf

"This book will help you get your bearings as a leader, gain confidence, and learn tactical approaches from experts who have been in your shoes so you can support your team and advance your career"--Design Better website.

Author : Kat Holmes
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262038881

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Mismatch by Kat Holmes Pdf

How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all. Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 vision, and use a credit card. Something as simple as color choices can render a product unusable for millions. These mismatches are the building blocks of exclusion. In Mismatch, Kat Holmes describes how design can lead to exclusion, and how design can also remedy exclusion. Inclusive design methods—designing objects with rather than for excluded users—can create elegant solutions that work well and benefit all. Holmes tells stories of pioneers of inclusive design, many of whom were drawn to work on inclusion because of their own experiences of exclusion. A gamer and designer who depends on voice recognition shows Holmes his “Wall of Exclusion,” which displays dozens of game controllers that require two hands to operate; an architect shares her firsthand knowledge of how design can fail communities, gleaned from growing up in Detroit's housing projects; an astronomer who began to lose her eyesight adapts a technique called “sonification” so she can “listen” to the stars. Designing for inclusion is not a feel-good sideline. Holmes shows how inclusion can be a source of innovation and growth, especially for digital technologies. It can be a catalyst for creativity and a boost for the bottom line as a customer base expands. And each time we remedy a mismatched interaction, we create an opportunity for more people to contribute to society in meaningful ways.

Author : Bill Burnett,Dave Evans
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781101875339

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Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett,Dave Evans Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage • “Life has questions. They have answers.” —The New York Times Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.

Author : Rael
Publisher : Raelian Foundation
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9782940252206

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Intelligent Design by Rael Pdf

Years ago, everybody knew that the earth was flat. Everybody knew that the sun revolved around the earth. Today, everybody knows that life on earth is the result of random evolution and/or a supernatural God. Or is it? In "Message from the Designers" Rael presents us with a third option: that all life on earth was created by advanced scientists from another world. During a UFO encounter in 1973 he was dictated a series of messages, face to face, by one of these designers. The result is what lies within these pages - an astonishing revelation for mankind.