Best Innovation and Design Books for 2006
The end of the year is approaching and the “Best of 2006” lists are popping out. One good list that you will probably want to check is the “Best Innovation and Design Books for 2006” which was compiled by the people over Business Week. The list included:
- Designing Interactions – Bill Moggridge (MIT Press)
- Worldchanging: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century – Alex Steffen (Harry N. Abrams)
- Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation – James Andrew (HBS Press)
- Zag – Marty Neumeier (Peachpit Press)
- Beautiful Evidence – Edward Tufte (Graphic Press)
- Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape – Henry Chesbrough (HBS Press)
- Wikinomics – Don Tapscott (Portfolio)
- Mavericks at Work – Taylor and Polly Lebarre (Willian Morrow)
- Juicing the Orange: How to turn Creativity into a Powerful Business Advantage – Pat Fallon (HBS Press)
- Spectacle – David Rockwell and Bruce Mau (Phaidon Press)
You can read a description of every book here.
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The first few pages of John Carroll’s “Making Use” provides the most lucid description of design I have ever read.
Creating Breakthrough Products and The Mythical Man-Month (with its lessons about conceptual conherence) are two other very important works on design.
I have start a book list of sorts for design and innovation at http://www.niblettes.com/blog/reading-list/