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Design Journeys through Complex Systems: Practice Tools for Systemic DesignBook

by Peter Jones and Kristel Van Ael

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Don Norman
Cognitive scientist and designer; author of The Design of Everyday Things; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group; former VP at Apple.
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The result is a powerful description and recommendation for taming the otherwise overwhelming complexity of methods and meetings into a coherent sensemaking process that sets the standard for these new skills and methods. All designers involved in these essential societal issues and instructors in design classes that address these need this book.

Norman's jnd.org post 'Highly Relevant Books Published After DBW', a curated reading list with his own blurbs for each book

jnd.org ↗·2023-03-26

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