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Innovating for People Handbook of Human-Centered Design Methods Spiral-bound – January 1, 2012

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Innovation is an economic imperative that calls for more people to be innovating, more often. This handbook equips people in various lines of work to become more innovative. It provides specific guidance for bringing new and lasting value into the world.

The key ingredient to successful innovation is the everyday practice of Human-Centered Design: the discipline of developing solutions in the service of people. Every story of a good innovation — whether it’s a new product, a new service, a new business model or a new form of governance — begins and ends with people. It starts with careful discernment of human needs, and concludes with solutions that meet or exceed personal expectations.

This handbook is your essential resource for innovation. It’s a compact reference book describing thirty-six methods of Human-Centered Design, organized by way of three key design skills:

- Looking: Methods for observing human experience

- Understanding: Methods for analyzing challenges and opportunities

- Making: Methods for envisioning future possibilities

Each featured method includes a brief description; a pictorial example; a listing of benefits; a sampling of method combinations; and a quick guide with helpful hints for initial application. The full collection of methods is small enough to digest quickly, yet large enough to address myriad challenges. This book does not prescribe a formulaic innovation process. Rather, it introduces a versatile set of methods for practicing Human-Centered Design as a daily discipline in order to be more innovative and drive sustainable growth.

Learn more at: luma-institute.com

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ LUMA Institute; First Edition (January 1, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Spiral-bound ‏ : ‎ 86 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0985750901
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0985750909
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
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I cannot recommend 'Innovating for People' highly enough
The LUMA system of innovation is a brilliant distillation of the essential elements of design thinking. It stands out in its field as more thoughtfully organized, more clearly communicated, and more practically applicable than any other approach. The systems can be quickly absorbed, and applied to projects of any scale. It is an invaluable addition to the bookshelves of any company which seeks to improve it's products, operations, or approaches.In my personal work, I have used the methods with internal teams and external clients. They scale easily and relate to one another elegantly. I find that my clients are particularly impressed with the way in which the methods flow into each other. Often, a meeting or facilitation will result in an outcome that they could not have seen coming.These outcomes speak to the true value of the system for generating innovative ideas. They also underscore the value that the system adds to my work. Running a meeting that is focused, energetic, and genuinely useful is not an easy thing to do. When using the LUMA system, the challenge is steeply reduced. If a client leaves with their problems solved, and I leave looking good because of my facility with the methods, that's a win-win.In short, I cannot recommend the handbook highly enough. It has proved to be a remarkable value add in my work.
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Beth Gray
5.0 out of 5 stars Concise guidance on ways to perform discovery
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2023
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I took LUMA training for my job as a product designer, and although you don't NEED a book (all the documentation on LUMA methods is available to subscribers online), I enjoy having this to page through and gain ideas and reinforcement for what I learned in class. Highly recommended.
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Maria
5.0 out of 5 stars Best ux methods handbook
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2021
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This is a real ux designer handbook which collected all most common methods. To the point, illustrated, each method takes just one page. My favorite part “combination sample” - which is recommendation on how to use methods together. Of course, you can find more explanation and literature for each method, (for some even the whole books), however this book is just awesome to get you familiar with what is out there and help you to identify if you picked the right one, as well as some tips on each method as well. I also like the language and structure: looking, understand, making.
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M. Plishka
5.0 out of 5 stars Designing for Humans? This Book Should be in Your Library
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2017
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If you want to design better products, innovate with humans in mind, this book is for you.

Broken into three subsections: looking, understanding, and making, approaches to human-centered design are clearly laid out in ways that make them easy to understand and implement.

So often in design, people get used to using the approaches that they are familiar with, the ones that have given results in the past. But, at the risk of stating the obvious: the quality of the solution is directly related to the quality of the tools used.

This book is a catalog of tools: alternative ways of looking, understanding, and making. If you want to avoid getting into a design method rut, flip open the pages of this book and peruse the various approaches to fine-tune the tool to the task at hand.

All in all, this book is an excellent resource and should be on every designer's bookshelf.
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Colin Mulberg
4.0 out of 5 stars Useful overview of some creative design techniques
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2013
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Innovating for People gives a helpful short guide to a range of techniques useful in design. Each design technique is shown as a easy-to-read double-page spread, giving a brief explanation, bullet points on how the technique works, helpful hints, benefits and an example and photo of the technique in action. The techniques are classified into different categories (looking, understanding and making) and a diagram shows which techniques work well together. Many of the techniques involve generating ideas and sorting and prioritizing them; there are fewer techniques on how to communicate processes. There is just about enough detail to use the technique - more explanation and expanded examples would help. I can see how to adapt some of the techniques to my design work. I feel this book is most useful as material to accompany one of the Luma Institute's courses on Human-Centred Design, but it does work as a stand-alone resource.
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Lori Pike
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a MUST HAVE for anyone with the desire to really want to know the methods that lead to better design solutions
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2017
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This book is a MUST HAVE! This book is for anyone who has the desire to bring creativity to the workplace and an engaging approach that will help team members get out of their seat and up to the board embarking on the journey of thinking, collaborating, and innovating. I recently attended the LUMA conference and the audience was filled with product managers, business owners, human resources, marketers, and teachers - and I don't think there was any one person that didn't leave with "hey, I could really use this in my line of work - and what an excellent handbook". For me, as tech lead of a mobile applications group, I got excited over this book. I like the way the book is divided and the visuals. This book gives you the road map with methods to make change.
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C. Arnold
5.0 out of 5 stars A Practical Guide to LUMA's Human-Centered Approach
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2017
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In a world filled with card-decks, toolkits, and field-guides this resource offers something a little different.

Offering thirty-six methods in handbook form, this resource does not present them as a step-by-step guide. In practice, any tool that claims to tell you all that you need to know to implement meaningful design research probably misses the point. Instead, the materials that the LUMA Institute provides offer a way to implement tried and true methods according to their purpose and to frame their application.

With each method that is described there is; a "quick guide" for its application, "helpful hints" to highlight the points to be aware of, and noted "benefits" identifying the takeaways that a given tool can provide. The inclusion of "sample combinations" for each method offers a 'recipe' indicating which other methods align well, and in what order they might be combined.

A solid resource for those who are taking next steps to implement design research methods, and most importantly, making sense of when to use them.
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TL
5.0 out of 5 stars Simple Solutions for Complex Problems
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2017
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LUMA's Innovating for People is a handbook that gets better with age. I purchased this a year ago and have used it in many settings - with students and with adults. I have used it in formal trainings, in conceptualizing an almost million dollar project, as well as in my college classroom. These methods, as a standalone work - but it is through mixing the methods and becoming comfortable that you see the applicability in just about every work situation. For the beginner, if you haven't gone through one of their two-day trainings, this handbook and human centered design as a whole may seem like a difficult concept to grasp - but together with LUMA Workplace you have a match that allows you to tackle many different problems.
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Chulatep Senivongse
3.0 out of 5 stars Broad ideas to innovation ideation
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2018
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The books give very rough idea on how to conduct innovation ideation workshop. Too brief of sequential step approach on these workshop could be very much helpful if comes along with short video link on how each tool can be applied.
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Elena
5.0 out of 5 stars Libro de referencia
Reviewed in Spain on April 9, 2023
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Es un toolkit de referencia con varas actividades dependiendo de la fase en la que te encuentres. Recomienda recetas de varias actividades encadenadas unas con otras.
No para aprender HCD, pero para principiantes que quieren aplicarlo.
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Abraham Rodriguez Briones
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente Manual!
Reviewed in Mexico on May 31, 2019
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Es una increíble colección de herramientas de diseño centradas en el usuario, me gustó mucho que cada herramienta además de incluir breve descripción general, descripción de uso paso por paso, ejemplo o caso de estudio también vienen combinaciones sugeridas de uso en conjunto con el resto de las herramientas. Muy bueno!
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Deepali M.
5.0 out of 5 stars Simplest explanation of Design thinking,
Reviewed in India on August 19, 2020
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Concepts explained with easy to understand graphics. Methodology to collaborate and innovate and generate ideas is phenomenal. Must read for all consultants, problem solvers, project managers and team leaders. Knowledge of powerful tools shared that can harness innovation.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Quick Refence Guide
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 22, 2019
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You can read this book back to back or pick what is useful. I tend to use this book as a quick reference guide (QRG) for design thinking approach to problem solving.
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Zettepix
3.0 out of 5 stars Informative but ot deep
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2017
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They provide with a number of tools to analyse, ideate and conceptualise but they give a very superficial description of thebtechnique and when to use it. It can be read in 20 minutes to get the whole picture and then go to other sources to get more infor about the technique and when and howmto put it in practice.
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