Donella Meadows and how to innovate with a systems centered approach. I focus on the systems boundaries and leverage points topics in her writing

Sarah Pink provides a sophisticated definition of ethnography that every designer would benefit from reading, and guides readers how to use images to create knowledge

A process for gently pushing back on the tight grip legacy stakeholders have on any status quo definition of value. With (so many) case studies!

A simple collection of a wide variety of samples from field notes created by researchers from across disciplines

Written in the 70s, opening up the black box of design, asking what a designer's role is on complex projects that require more than decorative additions to products

A seemingly bottomless collection of rigorous research on almost anything you can think of related to design

The best service design book out there, but I'm a huge fan of the author because she was my professor. Few design profs are as good as her.

Design researchers and creative strategists of any kind, can benefit from using this as a reference. I flip through this book to see what I haven’t thought of yet, or what I’ve forgotten to try in a while.

a contemporary take on all the things we used to believe were possible with technology like agency, interconnectedness, and creative potential. It has the vibes of the Whole Earth Catalogue with the experience of everything that happened between the Clinton years and covid.