The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design

by IDEO.org

The Field Guide is a fully illustrated introduction to human-centered design, an approach that problem solvers all over the world have used to tackle the challenges of poverty. It's also the evolution of the HCD Toolkit, a fantastic resource that has been purchased or downloaded 141,000 times.

Genres: Design, Business, Nonfiction, Art Design, Reference, Management

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2015

Reviews

[Erika · Rating 3 out of 5]

More applicable to service and business design than product design specifically, but still useful to supplement industrial design knowledge I missed in school.

[Mostaque Ahammed · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is from IDEO.org and it's about Human-Centered Design and it's a field guide. I think that's enough for a designer to put his read list top of everything. The topics are very to the point, precise, easy to follow and just do it type. Every User Experience Designer who works with any kind of users must read this.

[Geørge · Rating 5 out of 5]

ყველაზე მნიშვნელოვანი სახელმძღვანელოა ადამიანებზე ორიენტირებული დიზაინისა და მისი დახმარებით ყოველდღიური პრობლემების გადაჭრის შესახებ. ეს სამუშაო წიგნი IDEO-ს ერთ-ერთი ფუნდამენტური გზამკვლევია, რომელიც აუცილებელი საკითხავი უნდა გახდეს დიზაინერების, კომუნიკაციის სპეციალისტებისა და ყველა იმ ადამიანისთვის, ვინც თანამედროვე სამყაროში ცდილობს დიზაინით შექმნას, გააუმჯობესოს ყოველდღიურობა.

აქ მოცემული მაგალითები და სავარჯიშოები, რისი დახმარებითაც მივიდნენ კონკრეტული პრობლემების გადაჭრისკენ, აუცილებლად დასანერგია ჩვენ ცხოვრებაში. ამის გააზრების შემდეგ გვეცოდინება რა დანიშნულება აქვს დიზაინ გადაწყვეტებს თანამედროვე ცხოვრებაში.

ეს მხოლოდ შესავალი და პირველი ნაბიჯია IDEO-ს სამყაროში, დანარჩენები გზაშია!

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another useful book on how to approach your design thinking process (don’t care if you don’t like that term anymore, I’m using it).

Ideo’s field guide and tool kit focuses on a human centered design approach. Careful understanding, and empathy for the people and communities you are working for, lead to a stronger, more informed, simple design solution or product. Don’t be a fraud to get something wrong, because you will. Iterate, iterate, iterate. Sometimes the best way to see what’s going work, is first seeing what doesn’t. I would give this one a 5, but I had to read it in PDF version, and for me it lost something in that format. It’s best used as a guidebook to reference and use it’s worksheets whenever you need a little more guidance in your practice. Will be buying this for my library at some point.

[Meng DeChick · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's my first time reading Human-Centered Design. It's just an introduction but I got a completely new basic knowledge of it and how we apply it in classroom or any project we are involving with. Of course the book is very informative. It guides those who are interested in Human-Centered Design to how they are able create an innovative product to help people's actual needs. Unlike Project Management, Human-Centered Design people have to produce a product ultimately.

[Dash Dhakshinamoorthy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book on Design Thinking.
Takes you on a step by step approach whilst maintaining its the idea that at the heart of design is fluidity - you move back abs forth.

Read it with the model advanced by Jean Liedtka (Design for Growth) in mind. Highly helpful.

[Raven McKnight]

I've somehow stumbled into design work so I thought I should do some reading. A lot of the exercises in this field guide don't apply directly to the kind of work I'm doing, but I do think it was helpful to get into the mindset of human-centered design as a way of working.

[Marta Oliveira · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very useful. Very clear and easy to search whenever I am doing a project. Gives you a lot of alternatives in terms of frameworks for each phase of Design Thinking process.

[Emma Nogueira · Rating 4 out of 5]

Es un libro más práctico que teórico. Si trabajas en la disciplina es muy útil, sino es completamente intrascendente.

[VIKRAM SINGH · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good reference book for understanding the process, key principles to be followed, and when to execute which exercises

[Kusbandono · Rating 5 out of 5]

A practical guide of applying human-centered approach for solution building. Maybe needs more context, but as a designer it explains clearly in a structured way.

[retnolaras · Rating 2 out of 5]

not really guide but more like advice and compilation of possible way to starting a business/start-up. I read this thinking this book is about design interaction and human-centred design.

[Yvonne English · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic book - I use it in my Innovation for Impact class at Grove City College to teach students about Human-Centered Design and how they can use the methods to make the world a better place.

[Nikhil · Rating 4 out of 5]

A list of tools and resources to guide a team through a design project. Focused on non-profit and social enterprise development.

[Mythreyi · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is a good guidebook for those who know part of the process but not end to end.
It serves its purpose well.

[Brittany Rostad · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such practical tools to consider for design thinking while offering many examples

[Sam Dignam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great design tool! Will be referencing often

[Ali Khabbaz · Rating 5 out of 5]

You will be surprised, don't waste the time and make it happen

[Nguyễn Thái · Rating 4 out of 5]

useful design thinking tips from IDEO

[Phượng Minh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Now I could understand why I always feel resonated with UX designer -- by my own practices and experience which I thought I am the only person. Turns out we have a book here.

[Lalit Mohan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gotta apply in the field.

[Harley · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really good book for those who require design thinking skills - it’s a mix of one-pages for practical exercises along the journey with some case studies sprinkled in.

[Cruz Baisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Practical shit for making better shit

[Andrey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Неплохо

[المهند السبيعي · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book has a collection of multiple useful research and innovation tools, however it doesn't explain the technical details of each tool in detail.
Nevertheless, maybe Human-centered design need to simplicity even in designing process rather than complexity and perfectionism.

All in all I found it very easy to understand and it has many cases.

[Trish McLellan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A useful reference guide when doing human-centered design.

[Karina van Schaardenburg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really inspiring. One of the better books I've read on design research methods.

[zoagli · Rating 1 out of 5]

Comprehensive, colorful book about design thinking. But it does not tell a compelling story. More than anything else, it's a reference book for methods and templates.

[estherbookster · Rating 5 out of 5]

A college read for a course, all the principles are applicable for most situations, especially in real-world situations.

[Rebecca Karasik · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read it for work. Pretty good and useful advice but would have loved more in depth case studies.