Reading

Required Reading		Title Author Language ISBN Content	Design: process and methodology Asa Wikberg-Nilsson, Peter Törlind, Åsa Ericson              Swedish 9789144108858 What exactly is design and what makes a designer? How is it when something should be developed? Why do things and act like they do? Design - process and methodology will answer these questions and arouses interest in learning more about design, design thinking and innovation. Design includes everything from exploration of needs and opportunities, creative production of alternative solutions, to implementation of a new solution that contributes to a better living situation for humans. Design - process and methodology provides an introduction to the design work can be organized and what aspects should be taken into account to ensure meaningful and innovative solutions. The book also gives the reader a basis and spreads to explore alternative approaches and perspectives on a specific design situation. Design - process and methodology is a book for both experienced and future designers, innovators, product developers, service designers, development managers and others who are interested in development processes and to gain greater design understanding. Use the book to get creative inspiration and to communicate designs with yourself, with your team or with others. (fetched from AdLibris)
Required Reading		Title Author Language ISBN Content	An introduction to information design              Coates, K. A .; Ellison, Andy; English 9781780673387                      Information design is the visualization of information through graphic design. This invaluable guide Provides a creative, informative and practical introduction to the general principles of information design. With chapters on understanding the audience, structure, legibility and readability, selection of media, experimentation and multi-platform delivery, An Introduction to Information Design is given a complete overview of this fundamental aspect of visual communication. Fully illustrated case studies from leading designers providesprofessional Insight Into The Challenges Involved in creating information design for print, interactive and environmental media. Practical exercises and advice enable the reader to put this learning into practice. This makes it the perfect book for graphic design students as well as design enthusiasts. (fetched from AdLibris)
Required Reading		Title Author Language Content	Myths and truths about reading: the interplay between language and image in various media Jana Holsanova, Language Council Swedish The texts we face today often consist of many different elements: the body text, headings, images, captions, lists, quotes, charts, graphs, etc. The layout is complex and consists of a combination of language, images and other graphic resources. It is also becoming increasingly common that we collect information from various sources on the web. But we still know very little about how the reading is done, and how readers navigate in print and digital texts. Few empirical studies have been conducted about reading on the web. There is almost no research on how the reader connects information from different linguistic and pictorial sources and create meaning. It is taught about the browsers interaction with today's complex texts are often only assumptions. To follow the reading process in detail, needed an advanced measurement techniques (eye-tracking) combined with interviews and questionnaires. This interdisciplinary approach is Jana Holsanova been using in their research, and this is now presented the results for the first time to a wider readership. Assumptions and opinions about reading confronted with the results of this new empirical research. Here is how readers actually behave when reading different printed and digital documents, and we have examples of how to make it easier for the reader to find and understand information and navigating the documents. The book contains practical recommendations for the design of printed and digital documents that consist of language, images and other graphic resources. (fetched from AdLibris)
Required Reading		Title Author Language Content	Writing to learn Olga Dysthe, Frøydis Hertzberg, Torlaug Løkensgard Hoel Swedish This is an introductory book that shows that writing is an essential tool for learning and thinking development. The reader is introduced to the different ways to read and take notes, write different strategies and ways to structure a specialized text. There is also advice on how to start the printer and response groups, how skrivarhandledning should look and assessment criteria. The popular Writing to learn, here in a second revised edition. The book contains new chapters, including on major writing assignments in education, and it contains concrete help to students who wish to write lyrics with high quality. The book is aimed at both students in higher education as their teacher and is current for everyone who writes fiction texts. (fetched from AdLibris)
Required Reading		Title Author Language Content	Swedish writing rules Language Council Swedish Swedish writing rules are Language Council's recommendations for writing and designing texts: upper and lower case, punctuation, paragraphs, and hyphenation, charts and graphs, etc. In this new edition has more sections and advice have been added, for example, one on the design of memos and reports, one on alphabetical order of company names and trademarks and logos. (fetched from AdLibris)

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