Featuring multiple video interviews & audio clips from leading designers at GE Healthcare, Lyft, Spotify, Google, Airbnb, NPR, Slack, Atlassian and more.
Business Thinking for Designers
Transform your career and company by bringing a business approach to design. As a design veteran from Apple and Electronic Arts, Ryan Rumsey shares essential strategies for effective communication with business partners, and provides tools, tips, and frameworks for immediate use.
In the handbook:
- Understand the business impact of design
- Explore business concepts, essential vocabulary, models, and strategies
- Develop your business perspective
- Learn how design connects to business
- Help business partners understand design
- Put these lessons all together & apply them at work
Business Thinking for Designers: the Potential of Business Savvy Designers
Design Leadership Handbook
This book helps you lead, build confidence, and learn expert tactics for team support and career advancement.
In the handbook:
- Becoming a design leader
- Building the team
- Managing a design team
- Operationalizing design
- Forging alliances
- Shaping design vision
Design Leadership Handbook: Strategies for Success in Leading Design Teams
Design Operations Handbook
This book is the key to scaling digital product design teams with more efficiency.
In the handbook:
- The value of DesignOps
- Scenarios and models
- How to put it into practice
- Team coordination
- ResearchOps
Enterprise Design Sprints
Learn from the world’s best enterprises how you can run, facilitate, or sponsor your own design sprint and start delivering solutions in organizations of any size.
In the handbook:
- About design sprints
- The role of the facilitator
- Preparing for a sprint
- Phases of a design sprint
- Tips for success
- Business Thinking for Designers
Enterprise Design Sprints: Running Design Sprints in Your Organization
Hybrid Collaboration
How to adapt your team to remote work and rethink collaboration for continuity and productivity.
In the handbook:
- Improving hybrid visual sessions
- Digital whiteboards for teams
- Examples of successful remote collaboration
Principles of Product Design
Improve your team’s fundamentals of product design and outcomes using best practices from top design teams worldwide.
In the handbook:
- Learn what the best teams know with customer research
- Use product stories, journey maps, storyboards, and personas to build empathy and understanding.
- See how sketching helps designers and stakeholders find solutions together without getting lost in details.
- Create a culture of feedback with design reviews, retrospectives, standups, and more
- Learn faster by using prototypes to collect feedback and make tweaks before development.
- Improve your process by bridging gaps between design, engineering, and product.
- Read how stepping away from your work to build partnerships will transform your design process
Principles Of Product Design: The Power of Pencils Before Pixels in Design
Remote Work for Design Teams
Learn the best practices for running a remote design team, and discover how designers can help teams collaborate while working apart. This book was written by our team at InVision, a fully distributed remote workforce since 2011.
In the handbook:
- See how design can thrive despite physical distance
- Translate design practices for remote work
- Practical management advice for embracing the shift to remote
- Essential tips, tools, and tricks for working remotely
- Remote work is here for good: the positive impact of working remotely
Remote Work for Design Teams: Best Practices for Remote Design Teams
The New Design Frontier
The “Design Maturity Model” by InVision is a report that explores the current state of design and its potential for growth and improvement. It provides a framework for evaluating the maturity of design practices within an organization, and outlines steps for reaching a higher level of design maturity.
The report highlights the importance of design in today’s business world and how elevating design practices can lead to better outcomes and a competitive advantage.
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