Resources

ADDITIONAL WATCHLIST FOR THE CLASS

Playlist always in progress resides  >> here <<

Prototyping Techniques

• Upcycling Prototyping Materials
• Cardboard Attachments
• Cardboard Prototyping 
• Paper Prototyping for Digital 

Digital Prototyping 

• Prototyping with Figma
• Figma Basics
• Figma UI Design Tutorial 

Animation Techniques 

• Stop Motion Animation Using Paper Cutouts
• Stop Motion Using Drawing
• Stop Motion Using Foil 
• Beautiful Examples of Stop Motion:
  • Things to do in the belly of the whale
  • Accents
  • Waves of Emotion

Electronic Prototyping

• Fun with Paper Circuits
• Paper Circuit Projects
• IDM Arduino Kit Contents
• Quick Soldering Tutorial
• Arduino with Sensor (Photoresistor)
• Arduino with Sensor and Averages
• Arduino with Sensor and Saving to .txt 

More Arduino Tutorials can be found >> here << 

More Programming Tutorials can be found >> here << 

Accessibility Resources

• Videos on visual descriptions 
• What is visual descriptions? 

Recommended Books

Idea Generation

• Cracking Creativity by Michael Michalko
• IdeaSpotting: How to Find Your Next Great Idea by Sam Harrison
• Steal like an Artist by Austin Kleon
• The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher

Artists’ & Designers’ Processes

• The Creative Process by James Baldwin
• Creativity: The Perfect Crime by Philippe Petit
• Lynch on Lynch by Chris Rodley
• MTIV: Process, Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designer by Hillman Curtis
• The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
• The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp and Mark Reiter

Design

• Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek 
• Politics of the Everyday by Ezio Manzini
• The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman 
• Designing for Interaction by Dan Safer
• Design as Art by Bruno Munari
• Rights through making (ETHICS IN DESIGN) by Frens & Goretti
• Designerly Ways of Knowing by Nigel Cross
• Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock
• Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin
• Design for Dasein: Understanding the Design of Experiences by Thomas Wendt 
• Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis by Jon Kolko
• Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo
• Universal Methods of Design by Bella Martin and Bruce Hanington
• Tools For Conviviality by Ivan Illich

Accessibility & Design 

• What Can A Body Do? How We Meet The Built World by Sarah Hendren 
• Inclusive Design for a Digital World: Designing with Accessibility in Mind by Regine Gilbert
• The Senses: Design Beyond Vision (design book exploring inclusive and multisensory design practices across disciplines)

Business

• Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur

Ethnography & Anthropology

• Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
• Evocative Objects by Sherry Turkle
• My Life With Things by Elizabeth Chin
• Digital Materialities: Design and Anthropology by Sarah Pink
• Netnography: The Essential Guide to Qualitative Social Media Research by Robert Kozinets 
• Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping by Paco Underhill
• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal

Sketching

• Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies) by Bill Buxton
• Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook
• Bill Verplank’s Designing Interactions
• Blah Blah Blah by Dan Roam
• Unfolding The Napkin by Dan Roam
• The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking

Narrative

• Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
• Design is Storytelling by Ellen Lupton

Mapping & Data Visualization

• Web Redesign 2.0 | Workflow That Works by Kelly Goto & Emily Cotler
• How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody 1.0 Edition by Abby Covert
• Any Edward Tufte book
• Mapping Softwares: 
  • Coggle
  • Freemind
  • Inspiration Software
  • OmniGraffle
  • MindMeister

Prototyping

• Getting Real by 37Signals
• Show Your Work by Austin Kleon

• Engineering Design Methods: Strategies for Product Design by Nigel Cross

Recommended Writing Resources

• The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth 
• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by Strunk & White
• The Mac is Not a Typewriter by Robin Williams
• How to Write Footnotes and Endnotes in MLA Style
• The OWL at Purdue: MLA Formatting and Style Guide
• The OWL at Purdue: Annotated Bibliographies

Recommended Media

• Afrigadget
• Citizen Architect, Sam Mockbee & Rural Studio
• Cognitive Media Process and Work (visual scribing/note-taking)
• Dan Roam: “Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don’t Work” | Talks at Google
• “The Deep Dive,” ABC’s Nightline
• Designing Interactions Interviews
• Exit Through The Gift Shop by Banksy
• Found Magazine
• Hillman Curtis artist films
• Lost Image Desk
• Make Magazine
• An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth by Bruce Mau

Recommended Audio Podcasts

• Revision Path Maurice Cherry interviews designers, developers, and other creators of color weekly.
• StartUp Podcast StartUp is a podcast series about what it’s really like to get a business off the ground.
• The Tim Ferriss Show Tim Ferriss deconstructs world-class performers from eclectic areas (investing, sports, business, art, etc.) to extract the tactics, tools, and routines you can use. 
• Unmistakeable Creative Srini Rao interviews instigators, rebels, and people with a pathological inability to accept the status quo.
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