5 Design Handbooks for Product Design Teams

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. Get the free PDF 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

Business Thinking for Designers: the Potential of Business Savvy Designers

Design Operations Handbook

This book is the key to scaling digital product design teams with more efficiency. Get the free PDF download →

In the handbook:

The value of DesignOps
Scenarios and models
How to put it into practice
Team coordination
ResearchOps

DesignOps Handbook Summary: Building a Design-Led Culture

Design Leadership Handbook

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

In the handbook:

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

Design Leadership Handbook Summary: Strategies for Success in Leading Design Teams

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 PDF 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

Principles Of Product Design Summary: 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. Get the free PDF 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

Remote Work for Design Teams Summary: Best Practices for Remote Design Teams

Hybrid Collaboration

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

In the handbook:

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

Hybrid Collaboration Summary: Tools and Strategies

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. Get the free PDF download →