Make It New: A History of Silicon Valley Design by Katz, Barry M.

Make It New: A History of Silicon Valley Design

The role of design in the formation of the Silicon Valley ecosystem of innovation.California's Silicon Valley is...
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Author: Barry M. Katz
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Make It New: A History of Silicon Valley Design by Katz, Barry M.

Make It New: A History of Silicon Valley Design

$45.18

Make It New: A History of Silicon Valley Design

$45.18
Author: Barry M. Katz
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The role of design in the formation of the Silicon Valley ecosystem of innovation.

California's Silicon Valley is home to the greatest concentration of designers in the world: corporate design offices at flagship technology companies and volunteers at nonprofit NGOs; global design consultancies and boutique studios; research laboratories and academic design programs. Together they form the interconnected network that is Silicon Valley. Apple products are famously "Designed in California," but, as Barry Katz shows in this first-ever, extensively illustrated history, the role of design in Silicon Valley began decades before Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak dreamed up Apple in a garage.

Offering a thoroughly original view of the subject, Katz tells how design helped transform Silicon Valley into the most powerful engine of innovation in the world. From Hewlett-Packard and Ampex in the 1950s to Google and Facebook today, design has provided the bridge between research and development, art and engineering, technical performance and human behavior. Katz traces the origins of all of the leading consultancies--including IDEO, frog, and Lunar--and shows the process by which some of the world's most influential companies came to place design at the center of their business strategies. At the same time, universities, foundations, and even governments have learned to apply "design thinking" to their missions. Drawing on unprecedented access to a vast array of primary sources and interviews with nearly every influential design leader--including Douglas Engelbart, Steve Jobs, and Don Norman--Katz reveals design to be the missing link in Silicon Valley's ecosystem of innovation.



Author: Barry M. Katz
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 04/21/2017
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.60w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780262533591
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Barry M. Katz is Professor of Industrial and Interaction Design at California College of the Arts, Consulting Professor in the Design Group, Department of Mechancial Engineering, at Stanford University, and Fellow at IDEO, Inc. He is coauthor of Change by Design, with Tim Brown, and NONOBJECT, with Branko Lukic (MIT Press).

An internationally recognized leader at the intersection of design and technology, John Maeda is Executive Vice President/Chief Experience Officer at Publicis Sapient. He was the 16th President of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He is the author of Design by Numbers, The Laws of Simplicity, and Redesigning Leadership, all published by The MIT Press.


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