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The Design of Everyday Things
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Donald A Norman
How and why some products are satisfying to use while others are maddening.
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Design and Analysis of Experiments
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Douglas C Montgomery
Learn How to Achieve Optimal Industrial Experimentation Through four editions, Douglas Montgomery has provided statisticians, engineers, scientists, and managers with the most effective approach for learning how to design, conduct, and analyze experiments that optimize performance in products and processes. Now, in this fully revised and enhanced ...
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Product Design and Development
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Karl T Ulrich, Steven D Eppinger
Covering contemporary design and development issues, such as identifying customer needs, design for manufacturing, prototyping and industrial design, this text presents a set of step-by-step product development methodologies aimed at bringing together the marketing, design and manufacturing functions of an enterprise. Designed for graduate and ...
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Interior Construction & Detailing for Designers and Architects
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David Kent Ballast
Interior Construction and Detailing for Designers and Architects is a timesaving reference for design professionals working in either commercial or residential construction. A comprehensive resource on materials, finishes, construction assemblies, mechanical and electrical systems, building codes, and planning standards, this book will boost the ...
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Psychology of Everyday Things
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Donald A Norman
Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure our which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this fascinating, ingeniouseven liberatingbook, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. The ...
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Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design
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Bill Buxton
'Bill Buxton and I share a common belief that design leadership together with technical leadership drives innovation. Sketching, prototyping, and design are essential parts of the process we use to create new products. Bill Buxton brings design leadership and creativity to Microsoft. Through his thought-provoking personal examples he is inspiring ...
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Jig and Fixture Design
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Dr. Edward Hoffman
This text helps readers gain a complete understanding of the why's and how's of designing and building a variety of different workholders for manufacturing. From simple template and plate-type jigs to complex channel and box-type tooling, this revised edition features more than 500 illustrations of tools and applications to spur readers to success ...
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Commercial Drafting and Detailing
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Alan Jefferis
This text offers explanations and step-by-step examples for producing each of the architectural and structural drawings required in a complete set of commercial plans, from site, floor, stairs, and roof plans, to framing and foundation plans. As they progress through the book, readers are challenge
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Low pressure boilers
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Frederick M Steingress
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Methods, Standards, and Work Design
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Benjamin Niebel
Faced with increasing global competition, every industry, business, and service organization is restructuring itself to operate more effectively. Cost-effectiveness and product reliability without excess capacity are the keys to successful activity in business, industry, and government, and these keys are the end results of methods engineering. ...
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Nature and Art of Workmanship
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David Pye
Arguing that the aesthetic quality of our environment depends as much on its workmanship as on its design, and that workmanship has been largely ignored, David Pye develops a new theory of the aesthetics of workmanship which can be applied to architecture, to the products of industry and to craft-work. The author shows how and why we are conscious ...
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Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery
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Charles J Kibert
Reflecting the latest developments in the green building movement, and updated to include coverage of LEED 2009, "Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery, Second Edition" guides construction and design professionals through the process of developing commercial and institutional high-performance green buildings in today's ...
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Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
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Victor Papanek
A blueprint for responsible design thinking in an energy-deficient world.
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Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design
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Donald C Gause, Gerald M Weinberg
The scholar John von Neumann once said, "There's no sense being exact about something if you don't even know what you're talking about." In a world that is growing increasingly dependent on highly complex, computer-based systems, the importance of defining what you want to make before making it -- that is, knowing what you're talking about -- ...
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Design and the Elastic Mind
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Museum of Modern Art (Creator)
Edited by Paola Antonelli. Text by Paola Antonelli, Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Peter Hall, Ted Sargent.
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The Engineering Design of Systems: Models and Methods
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Dennis M Buede
The ideal introduction to the engineering design of systems - now in a new edition. "The Engineering Design of Systems", Second Edition compiles a wealth of information from diverse sources to provide a unique, one-stop reference to current methods for systems engineering. It takes a model-based approach to key systems engineering design ...
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Objects of Desire: Design and Society Since 1750
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Adrian Forty
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Human Factors in Engineering and Design
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Sanders, McCormick
This is the seventh edition of a text that is quite popular and the respected leader in its field. Written for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, as well as for practicing professionals, the book combines an emphasis on the empirical research basis of human factors with comprehensive coverage of basic concepts in the field of human ...
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Measure of Man and Woman: Human Factors in Design
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Henry Dreyfuss Associates, Henry Dreyfuss
This is a revised and expanded version of "The Measure of Man". The new title is the product of twenty years of new research by the designers at Henry Dreyfuss Associates. It contains updated information and new data on anthropometric factors that is not yet available to the design community: new factors on differently abled people (wheelchair ...
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The Packaging Designer's Book of Patterns
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George L Wybenga, Laszlo Roth
The third edition continues its long tradition as a useful tool in the ever-changing world of packaging design. It features more than fifty new patterns and new material on the latest advances in closures. This hands-on resource gives designers the advantage they need to successfully meet any packaging challenge. Every pattern has been test ...
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Engineering Psychology and Human Performance
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Christopher D Wickens
For courses in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Engineering Psychology, Human Performance, Human Information Processing, and Applied Cognitive Psychology. This text presents both a formal and intuitive understanding of how humans process information in the performance of tasks--highlighting the strengths and limitations, as well as methods, ...
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Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design
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Henry Petroski
Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge embodies this universal human activity. But what makes a great design? In this compelling and wide-ranging look at the essence of invention, distinguished engineer and author Henry Petroski argues that, time and again, we have built ...
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Engineering Design: An Introduction
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John R Karsnitz, Stephen O'Brien, John P Hutchinson
With an innovative approach that uses projects and student exploration as key learning tools, "Engineering Design: An Introduction" offers an overview of the basic engineering principles and concepts that shape today's modern world. These concepts are presented in a flexible, two-part format. Part I describes the process of engineering and ...
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In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World
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John Thackara
We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is ...
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Presentation techniques : a guide to drawing and presenting design ideas
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Dick Powell
This guide, which attempts to aid designers to visualize their concepts, uses all the developments that have taken place within the field of design over the last five years. Special emphasis is placed on new developments in computerized perspective drawing, marker and airbrush techniques, automotive rendering and new techniques in descriptive ...
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