The number of product designers seemingly keeps increasing from
time to time due to the fact that more people become highly interested in
designing a product. It has become a clear fact that designing a product
requires knowledge, skills, experience and passion. When people are designing a
product, they are able to make use of their creativity and think out of the
box. However, because only quality product designers will have a good career,
everyone interested in becoming a product designer should
know all underlying facts about their job. For this purpose, learning from
famous product designers can become a perfect attempt.
Luckily, many famous product designers share their thoughts,
opinions and experiences through books. These days, everyone can easily find
books by famous product designers that contain the secrets of success in
creating a good design. If people learn from the books, people will likely be
able to know what they should do to become good product designers. The
followings are 5 famous product designers who share their secret books.
1. Neil Gershenfeld
Neil Gershenfeld is a professor at MIT. He is also the head of
MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. His research studies focus on computer
sciences. He releases a construction set namely Great Invention Kit in 2008 in
which the construction set can be manipulated to create various objects. To
share his knowledge, inventions and thoughts about product design, he publishes
a book entitled Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop – from Personal
Computer to Personal Fabrication.
2. Don Norman
Don Norman is an academic in the field of cognitive science,
design and usability engineering. He is a popular product
designer due to his passion about product design. Basically, most of
his works are about giving advocacy of user center design. This term is
presented in his books entitled The Design of Everyday Things. The user center
design is refer to design based on user needs.
3. John Maeda
John Maeda is graphic designer, computer scientist, academic and
an author. Through his book entitled The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity:
Design, Technology, Business, Life), John Maeda share his principles of design.
Simplicity is highly recommended in a design because it can keep users focusing
on important matters.
4. Kenya Hara
Kenya Hara is a graphic designer and curator. His working
experiences have given him lots of information about good design. His book
Designing Design shares his secret about the importance of emptiness in design.
Most readers testify that Designing Design is actually the most beautiful book
on design. A perfect combination of information and illustrations makes his
book is worth to buy.
5. Paul Arden
Paul Arden is considered as an influential author of motivation
and marketing books. Through his book entitled It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s
How Good You Want to Be, he motivates people to create make the unthinkable
thinkable and the impossible possible. His book is good for a product
designer who wants to create good design because his book gives the
needed motivation. His wisdom is easy to digest so that everyone who reads his
book now how to achieve their goals.
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