Career Design

Take your design career to the next level by mastering User Experience Design. This book has been almost 25 years in the making and covers all the important things you need to know in order to excel as a User Experience Designer. Whether you’re looking to get started in design, change disciplines within design, or invest in your career growth, the material covered will help you get there. The focus is on the practical aspects of design and on learning the tools and approaches that you will actually use in your day-to-day life as a UX Designer. Some of the topics covered include: Why ...

Curious to catapult your crochet business? Or maybe start a crochet business? This is a must-have book that provides you with the best tips and secrets to learn how to be successful in writing, selling, and marketing digital patterns for your crochet business! Your purchase also includes free crochet patterns from your favorite designers along with free templates for your patterns.

In Get More Clients for Web Design or Development, author Dekker Fraser draws from both top-line marketing training received while earning his Master's degree at Kellogg School of Management and years of web design business experience to offer you a proven and powerful specialized website development business model that will draw new high-paying clients, encourage referrals, and guarantee customer loyalty, so those high-paying clients come back to buy more high-end websites from you.

Employees who take care of themselves have the capacity and energy to be high-performance employees. In turn, they help leaders create high-performance companies and thriving workplace cultures. This audiobook reveals how to design a company that makes it easy and natural for employees to care for themselves and perform at the highest level.

With $1,500 and no business experience, Mel and Patricia Ziegler turned a wild idea into a company that would become the international retail colossus Banana Republic. Reimagining military surplus as safari and expedition wear, the former journalist and artist created a world that captured the zeitgeist for a generation and spoke to the creativity, adventure, and independence in everyone.

In one of the only books of its kind, a veteran design consultant offers the tools for success gained from nearly 30 years of developing corporate and brand identity programs. Readers will discover the most effective formats for design briefs, how to structure the best possible team, what distinguishes a great design brief from an adequate one, how to use the brief in project tracking, as a measuring tool, and as a means of getting approval for a design solution; and much, much more.

Are you a dreamer? Do you ever look at your life and wonder how to make it more like you imagined it could be? Have you ever had goals that you had no idea how to achieve or even where to start? This insightful and practical book not only answers some burning questions about how to get what you want from life and create the life of your dreams, this book offers a step-by-step system to follow.

What if I can tell you that you can design and accelerate the level of success that you always wanted in your life and career? How many times have you wonder if you are wasting your time following someone else plans and dreams instead of following your own? Here is a little tip you need to know today: To be consistent, you need to focus 100 percent on the assignments you have in front of you. As an individual, you are the one responsible to build yourself up. Obviously, that’s easier said than done.

The book is written for, and from, practitioners of design and development, and reveals a proven methodology for success. All of the case histories were recognized as both award-winning products, to include the prestigious Edison Awards, as well as successfully winning in the marketplace.

The book you have at hand, more than just writing, is an activation and empowerment tool that we all should read, especially women who are not willing to let anything that has happened to them prevent them from being what God has determined.

Sell Your Business by Design, Not by Default is about being smart and getting it right. It is your go-to resource guide for “selling your business for more money” by making smart, informed decisions when selling your business to maximize your profits when you sell, taking care of the well-deserving employees who helped you get there and not letting Uncle Sam take too much of your money.

To reach today’s customers and influence their purchases, marketers and market researchers need to understand and harness the power of applied behavior psychology and behavior economics to break through these nonconscious filters and drive purchase behaviors - a process called behavior design. In Marketing to Mindstates, Will Leach, founder of TriggerPoint Design, a leading behavior research and design consultancy, demystifies this nonconscious filter and explains how to bypass it, introducing listeners to temporary moments of influence called mindstates.

Learn how to map out your career step by step and get ahead in life! Have you heard any of these common myths?

Design sprints provide a problem-solving framework to get answers quickly and effectively. Learn to run sprints in any organization to reduce politics, increase collaboration, and put the focus on outcomes.

While writers, designers, editors, and other creative professionals spend years learning and refining creative craft skills, those skills do nothing to prepare us for the human, organizational, and operational challenges that come with promotions to leadership. And as your responsibility grows, it’s those organizational and leadership skills that will hold you and your team back.

Learn competitive business strategy from the best. According to strategic planning expert Dr. Chuck Bamford, business strategy is a mixture of instinct and instruction. You already have the instinct - let Bamford provide the instruction you need to hone your business and leadership traits, and lead your organization into a bright future. Bamford’s work stands out from other business leadership audiobooks by providing in-depth processes in a practical format that allows the listener to use the material immediately.

Con el aumento de la esperanza de vida y la modificación de las carreras profesionales se incrementa la necesidad de gestionar activamente tanto la propia carrera como el conocimiento y las habilidades necesarias para alcanzar el éxito al que toda persona aspira. Y todo es más sencillo si esta parte de un propósito personal sólido y claro.

In Design to Grow, a Coca-Cola senior executive shares both the successes and failures of one of the world's largest companies. In this rare and unprecedented behind-the-scenes look, David Butler and senior Fast Company editor Linda Tischler, use case studies to show how this works at Coca-Cola - and how other companies can use the same approach to grow their business. This audiobook is a must for managers inside large corporations as well as entrepreneurs just getting started.

Whether you're a complete beginner or have some experience with digital products, this guide provides everything you need to create, launch, and scale your digital product business.

Businesses, organizations and society-at-large are all subject to unforeseeable events and incidents that often have a dramatic impact upon prosperity and profit. Due to their unpredictable nature, business leaders and executive teams are unable to prepare for these specific events. But, through innovation, strategizing and an open-minded approach, they can restructure their organization and practices in order to mitigate (or even take advantage of) the impact of such events.