Published: 2016/2017 (2013)
The Little Booklet on Design Thinking: An Introduction
Authors: Monika Hestad, Anders Grønli and Silvia Rigoni

We all design all the time. Small things like coming up with ideas for parties or reorganising your closet, and bigger things like making decisions on what you would like to do with your life. Being aware for who you are designing, and knowing how you can bring others into the conversation, can help you achieve your goals.

The Little Booklet on Design Thinking: An Introduction offers a collaborative approach building on a Scandinavian design perspective. It is filled with examples and activities presented in a step-by-step process, which gives a practical training in design thinking as an approach to innovation. Design thinking is a tool for you to engage key stakeholders on a creative journey of development and learning.

The Little Booklet on Design Thinking is valuable for companies and organisations who seek to work systematically to find solutions and methods that are not obvious.

Hestad, Monika, Grønli, Anders & Rigoni, Silvia (2017). The Little Booklet on Design Thinking: An Introduction. 2nd edition. London: Brand Valley Publications. ISBN: 978-1912220014

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Published: First edition 2013/2014, Second edition 2019
The Little Booklet on Business Design
Authors: Jonas Altman and Monika Hestad

Have you dreamt about being your own boss? Or, maybe while sitting on the train you got an ultimate idea for something you would like to solve? Why not take it to the next level?

The Little Booklet on Business Design: Curiosity to Strategy offers a playful approach to exploring the potential of your business idea. It builds on designers methods and provides future entrepreneurs the tools they need to turn their ideas into reality. Business Design starts with your customers’ needs. Key aspects of designing a business are explored in a fun and engaging step-by-step process. The process is visually and verbally presented and will be valuable for all curious entrepreneurs.

Altman, Jonas & Hestad, Monika (2019). The Little Booklet on Business Design: Getting Started. 2nd edition. London: Brand Valley Publications. ISBN: 978-1-912220-04-5.

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Published: 2013
Branding and Product Design: An integrated perspective
Author: Monika Hestad

Why do winning brands appear to be more creative and authentic than less successful ones? Despite the strong link between famous brands and the products sold under their name, there is still a gap in understanding the relationship between product design and brand-building - Monika Hestad plugs that gap. Branding and Product Design discusses key questions about the link between product and brand and about design processes and innovation. It examines these questions on both macro and micro levels and provides the reader with tools to help understand the role of products in building a brand, and how to bring the brand and the product design process together. These are based on the author's research into branding and product design, her years of teaching these topics, and her own industrial practice. Qualitative interviews delivering an 'insider' perspective on major brands bring abstract concepts to life. The book includes case studies from well-known and up-and-coming brands and will prove invaluable to design practitioners, marketers, managers and other professionals working close to designers. It will also benefit those teaching and studying, particularly if they are involved in the new higher education programmes where business schools and design schools are co-operating to reflect the intersection between design and branding.

Hestad, Monika (2013). Branding and Product Design: An integrated perspective. A Gower book. New York: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-4094-4626-2.
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Published: 2017
Additive Manufacturing - Design, Methods, and Processes

Editor: Steinar Killi
Authors: Steinar Killi, Monika Hestad, Viktor Hiort af Ornäs, William Lavatelli Kempton, Nina Bjørnstad and Andrew Morrison

Additive manufacturing has matured from rapid prototyping through the now popular and “maker”-oriented 3D printing, recently commercialized and marketed. The terms describing this technology have changed over time, from “rapid prototyping” to “rapid manufacturing” to “additive manufacturing”, which reflects largely a focus on technology.

This book discusses the uptake, use, and impact of the additive manufacturing and digital fabrication technology. It augments technical and business-oriented trends with those in product design and design studies. It includes a mix of disciplinary and transdisciplinary trends and is rich in case and design material. The chapters cover a range of design-centred views on additive manufacturing that are rarely addressed in the main conferences and publications, which are still mostly, and importantly, concerned with tools, technologies, and technical development. The chapters also reflect dialogues about transdisciplinarity and the inclusion of domains such as business and aesthetics, narrative, and technology critique. This is a great textbook for graduate students of design, engineering, computer science, marketing, and technology and also for those who are not students but are curious about and interested in what 3D printing really can be used for in the near future.

Killi, Steinar W. (2017). Additive Manufacturing: Design, Methods, and Processes. CRC Press.
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Monika Hestad has written Chapter 6: Potential of Additive-Manufactured Products in Building Brands together with Viktor Hiort af Ornäs