Design Development

This cheering book of best loved short tales, extracts and poems will calm and restore an anxious mind before sleep. A good night's sleep is essential for our well-being and our health, but in our busy lives sleep is often poor and overlooked. Now is the time to stop a while and find consolation and wonder in other worlds where all is well and sleep just a minute or two away.

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.

In Understanding Software, Max Kanat-Alexander, Technical Lead for Code Health at Google, shows you how to bring simplicity back to computer programming. Max explains to you why programmers suck, and how to suck less as a programmer. There's just too much complex stuff in the world. Complex stuff can't be used, and it breaks too easily. Complexity is stupid. Simplicity is smart.

Renowned designer and professional hell-raiser James Victore wants to drag you off your couch and throw you headfirst into a life of bold creativity. He'll guide you through all the twists, trials, and triumphs of starting your creative career, from finding your voice to picking the right moment to start a project (hint: It's now).

Contrary to popular belief, retirement homes are not the only option for our population’s aging members anymore. Adult Family Homes designed to allow senior citizens to live mostly independently with access to a variety of amenities, provide an alternative for individuals or couples who can no longer safely live on their own but don’t want to relegate themselves to assisted living facilities. Investment in this innovative category of senior living is a relatively new opportunity that many are not aware of.

Riff, Rock, and Revolutionize Your Instructional Design Game! Ever thought the wild, chaotic energy of punk rock could sync up with the world of instructional design? Well, strap in, because this isn’t just a book—it's a head-banging journey into the mosh pit of Learning and Development! Punk Rock Instructional Design is not just for those with "instructional designer" in their email signature.

Written in the trenches of helping hundreds of B2B SaaS businesses, The Pricing Roadmap will help you pour gasoline on the fire of your pricing. Ditch the guesswork with this step-by-step guide to designing SaaS pricing that grows your business—whether you’re a startup, prerevenue venture, or an established market leader.

RD Accelerated is a revolutionary methodology designed to optimize the design and development process, making it faster, more efficient, and cost-effective. By empowering designers to take full ownership of projects and leveraging AI for rapid content creation, RD Accelerated sets a new standard for delivering high-quality products. Gone are the days of designers being pigeonholed as “just the creative people” or developers being stuck fixing bugs in the back room. In RD Accelerated, designers and creative developers evolve into full-fledged product makers. They don’t just make the ...

The best career is not one where you only do what you love, but one where you honor who you are. In You Turn, counterterrorism-professional-turned-career-coach Ashley Stahl shares the strategies she’s used to help thousands ditch their Monday blues, get clarity on what work lights them up, and devise an action plan to create a career they love. This book gives listeners access to Stahl’s coveted 11-step road map that has guided thousands of coaching clients in 31 countries to self-discovery and success.

This book is intended to provide an introduction to the application of a lifecycle approach to product design and development for medical devices. Medical Device Product Lifecycle management provides a framework to develop, design maintain user requirements and ensure the safety and performance of medical devices. Application of a Medical Device Product Lifecycle Management benefits the business aspects of manufacturing, fosters alignment across design and development teams and incorporates the voice of the customer, taking into account their needs and safety that is inherent in the design ...

Volume I of the How to Become an e-Learning Freelancer series, “Launching Your Freelance e-Learning Career,” is an easy-to-use, practical guide to getting your freelance e-Learning career off the ground. It covers the basics of starting as a freelancer, from making the decision to go solo all the way through setting up your business’s tax structure. Consider this book your guide to establishing the fundamentals of your freelance e-Learning life, and then move on to Volumes II and III to take your career even further!

Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting in the early 20th century, cities have used their power of land use control to determine the location and availability of housing, amenities (such as parks), and negative land uses (such as garbage dumps). The result has been segregation - first within cities and more recently between them.

The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. The reality is that most innovations come from a process of rigorous examination through which great ideas are identified and developed before being realized as new offerings and capabilities. This is not a book by designers for designers; this is a book for creative leaders seeking to infuse design thinking into every level of an organization's products or service to drive new alternatives for business and society.

Identity. It’s an abstract term. But it starts with realizing where you came from, in order to know where you should be going. And that’s the difference between fulfillment and going through the motions day after day. Find clarity and direction, the true foundations of happiness. How to Find Yourself provides a thorough and scientific approach to understanding yourself and why you do the things you do. You will discover your values, the roots of your behaviors, and what makes you tick. And then you can use this information to your advantage.

Whether you're rolling out a new product from a city-view office or rolling up your sleeves to deliver a social service in the field, learning why and how to embrace failure can help you do better faster. Smart leaders, entrepreneurs, and change agents design their innovation projects with a key idea in mind: ensure that every failure is maximally useful. In Fail Better, Anjali Sastry and Kara Penn show how to create the conditions, culture, and habits to systematically, ruthlessly, and quickly figure out what works in three steps.

Sharing hard-earned insights, advice, and best practices, brand and marketing strategist Karen Tiber Leland helps entrepreneurs, business owners, CEOs, and executives create a brand by design instead of default, gain greater influence in their industries and companies, and become thought leaders in their fields. The Brand Mapping Strategy uses proven strategies, best practices, and anecdotes from real life brand-building successes to give listeners the tools they need to design, build, and accelerate a successful brand.

The Making of a Well-Designed Business is the insiders' guide to helping others overcome the challenges of owning a business. The strategies it provides to ensure success include: The importance of establishing your company mission and core values, how to assemble a team of experts and mentors, where and how to find (and attract) the ideal client, the significance of making customer service your top priority, and why owning your worth is the key to profitable selling.

You're letting life happen to you. That's why it's feeling predictable and uninspiring. No wonder the restlessness, the boredom, and the feelings of being trapped. But there is another way. This audiobook will show you how to break through that self-imposed ceiling. It will challenge you to take command of your life by awakening you to your beliefs and stories, disrupting your patterns and behaviors, and designing a future you can't wait to live.

Pricing projects can feel tricky, but it doesn't have to be. Dan Mall explains how to earn more, by understanding what goes into a price (and why hourly rates don't work) and what your clients really want-and are willing to pay for. Learn the right questions to ask and when, and ways to turn client requirements into numbers, with a real-world example from Dan's agency.

Volume II of the How to Become an e-Learning Freelancer series, “Marketing Yourself and Finding Great Clients,” is a guide to both the practical necessities and essential philosophies behind self-marketing. Whether it’s a step-by-step guide to creating a powerful portfolio, or advice on creating and sustaining client relationships, “Marketing Yourself and Finding Great Clients” is an indispensable resource for the modern e-Learning freelancer.