Communication

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Understanding Creativity

This book explores the mechanisms, enablers, and blocks through which new ideas come to life—all backed by solid science. It’s designed to help you understand and hack your own creativity. You can find more about the book and get a free chapter at www.understandingcreativity.org.

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Exercising Creativity

Co-edited with Hesamedin Ostad-Ahmad-Ghorabi.

What is creativity when put under the spotlight? This book presents work from the Creativity Engineering Summer University, guiding readers from a creative idea to its successful implementation. It covers how the mind behaves, why we have ideas, and how to develop them into tangible solutions across fields ranging from product design to consultancy.

Read more about the series here.

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Fundamentals of Engineering Design

Originally titled “Fundamentos del diseño en la Ingeniería”

Co-authored with Mónica García, Jorge Alcaide, Tomás Gómez, Jordi Peris, and Rafael Monterde.

Design teams solve complex, multidisciplinary problems. This book presents rigorous yet practical design methodologies for industrial products, taking the reader from early ideas to engineering concepts while covering innovation, marketing, and quality systems.