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Business Thinking for Designers: increasing your impact and value at work by learning how design connects to the bottom line
Business Thinking for Designers: grow your impact & value at work by learning how design connects to the bottom line

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. Get the free download →

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

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Design Leadership Handbook, your guide to becoming a strong design leader — DesignBetter.Co
Design Leadership Handbook, your guide to becoming a strong design leader — DesignBetter.Co

Design Leadership Handbook

This book helps you lead, build confidence, and learn expert tactics for team support and career advancement. Get the free download →

In the handbook:

  • Becoming a design leader
  • Building the team
  • Managing a design team
  • Operationalizing design
  • Forging alliances
  • Shaping design vision

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Principles of Product Design, a book of essential practices to produce great products
Principles of Product Design, a book of essential practices to produce great products

Principles of Product Design

Improve your team’s fundamentals of product design and outcomes using best practices from top design teams worldwide. Get the free download →

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

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Remote Work for Design Teams - DesignBetter
Remote Work for Design Teams – DesignBetter

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. Get the free download →

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

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Hybrid collaboration: A guide to changes, challenges, & considerations | InVision
Hybrid collaboration: A guide to changes, challenges, & considerations | InVision

Hybrid Collaboration

How to adapt your team to remote work and rethink collaboration for continuity and productivity. Get the free download →

In the handbook:

  • Improving hybrid visual sessions
  • Digital whiteboards for teams
  • Examples of successful remote collaboration

Bonus: 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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Stephanie Kabi

Author Stephanie Kabi

Design Mentor @ ADPList | Senior Product Designer @ Andela | DesignLab & UX Academy Ambassador | 3x UI/UX Certified

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