5 Books About Design’s Role in Organizations
While writing my master thesis, Leveling Up In Design - Using A Game To Support Design Maturity In Organizations, I stumbled across a lot of literature. Here are some books that I recommend you taking a closer look at, if you are interested in knowing more about design’s expanding role in organizations. I’ve added links to where you can read more about the books, as well as buy them. Let me know if you want more tips on literature, or if you have a book to recommend - leave a comment!
Change By Design
How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations And Inspires Innovation
Author: Tim Brown, CEO @IDEO
A “classic” among books about design thinking. In this book, Brown talks about techniques and strategies for how design can be used in all levels of an organization.
Transformations
7 Roles to Drive Change by Design
Authors: Joyce Yee, Emma Jefferies & Kamil Michlewski
This book contains really good examples of the impact design can have in organizations. Among the examples, we find organizations such as Spotify, SAP and Telstra - all of which have adopted design in different ways to improve products, processes and strategies.
Designing Business and Management
Authors: Sabine Junginger & Jürgen Faust
This book contains articles written by scholars and designers, addressing the challenges and issues of designing business from a design perspective.
Design Attitude
Author: Kamil Michlewski
Design Attitude is a book for those who want to scratch beneath the surface and explore the impact design and designers have in organisations. It offers an alternative view on the sources of success and competitive advantage of companies such as Apple, where design plays a leading role. A must-read for anyone interested in the potential benefits of design.
Design and the Creation of Value
Author: John Heskett
In this book, Heskett shows the relationship between design and economics. It is a great book for designers who wants to become conversant in the language of economics, but the book also explains the value of design and it’s potential impact in organizations.
Bonus!
Designing for growth
A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers
Authors: Jeanne Liedtka & Tim Ogilvie
Historically the methods of design thinking have been misinterpreted which, in turn, has led to a widespread misunderstanding and misuse of the methodology and its potential benefits.
In this book Liedtka and Ogilvie educate the reader in design thinking and the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth.
