By Design: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and Other Object Lessons
by Ralph Caplan
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Author: Ralph CaplanEdition: Turtleback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-06-30
ISBN: 1563673495
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Fairchild Pubns
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Book Review: A Great Book For Anyone in the Product Business
Summary: 5 Stars
This outstanding book is said to be aimed at design students, professionals, or anyone else who could benefit from af uller appreciation of the design process. And yes, I have to agree, it is.
More important to me however is the presentation in this book of the essence of what design is all about. This is the kind of book that the financial people behind a new big hotel should read. It is the book that a product development engineer should read before he starts working with his industrial designer. This is the book that nearly any business manager from marketing, to engineering, to sales, should read.
The first time I travelled to Scandinavia I was struck with the simple elements of design that they do so much better than we do in this country. Simple things like the design of hotel doors, no more expensive than what we do here, just better.
And the sub-title, 'why there are no locks on the bathrobe doors in the Hotel Louis XIV' -that's a great story, it makes such eminent sense. A special problem, a great design, see page 179.
Summary of By Design: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and Other Object Lessons
An inspiring resource for design students, professionals, or anyone else who could benefitfrom a fuller appreciation of the design process, By Design vividly shows how design affects
our most significant human activities. A network of engrossing stories illuminate the process
as it applies to architecture, industrial design, interior design, fashion design, graphic
design, and the design of business and social situations. It is the perfect accompaniment to
a broad area of foundation courses for designers-in-training. This new edition of the popular
classic features updated examples of timeless ideas, illustrated in full color. A concluding
chapter discusses what has, and has not, changed since the first edition, examining
design responses to radical technological development and shifting consumer demands.
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