The success of a product or service goes beyond the bottom line. Customer satisfaction should be the primary goal of any business. Design thinking is a tool that leading organizations use to put their customer first. In this course, leaders from companies like Procter & Gamble, Spanx, and Netflix explain how to apply a design thinker’s methods to customer experience and product development. Learn how to embrace empathy, prototype early and often, differentiate your product, and appreciate failure. Plus, get tips to incorporate design thinking into your everyday life.

The success of a product or service goes beyond the bottom line. Customer satisfaction should be the primary goal of any business. Design thinking is a tool that leading organizations use to put their customer first. In this course, leaders from companies like Procter & Gamble, Spanx, and Netflix explain how to apply a design thinker's methods to customer experience and product development. Learn how to embrace empathy, prototype early and often, differentiate your product, and appreciate failure. Plus, get tips to incorporate design thinking into your everyday life.

264 pages | English | ISBN-10: 0415422914 | ISBN-13: 9780415422918

English | Video: 720p | 49m

192 pages | English | ISBN-10: 0803615671 | ISBN-13: 9780803615670

Intermediate level

 
Sketch Book for the Artist takes its journey of investigation beyond the shores of Fine Art, covering a wide range of themes from portraits to plant studies and still life, and showing how to tackle each subject in a variety of different ways. From quick pencil sketches to fully finished color studies, the author uses "drawing classes" throughout the book to skillfully demonstrate each technique. Alongside drawings by famous Masters, the book uses the artist's drawing book as the center of its investigation, examining attitudes and demonstrating techniques that will excite the imagination and enhance the skills of the reader.

A Procedural Approach to Drawing the Female Figure With Glenn Vilppu

 

https://www.nma.art/videolessons/a-procedural-approach-to-the-female-figure/

In this video lesson, world-famous artist and instructor Glenn Vilppu demonstrates a clear procedural approach to drawing the female figure. Glenn starts with a loose gesture drawing in graphite and then works into it with sanguine constructing the figure three-dimensionally. You will also learn how to push the tones and work with the core shadows to move the eye through the figure.

 Zorn’s Approach to Painting the Nose with Steve Huston
https://www.nma.art/videolessons/zorns-approach-to-painting-the-nose/
In this lesson world-renowned painter Steve Huston analyzes a master painting by Swedish artist Anders Zorn and demonstrates Zorn’s approach to painting the nose. You will learn about the lay-in and correct construction of the nose, how to establish shadows to give the nose correct context, techniques for emphasizing the structure and how to give the nose the illusion of roundness.

Mau-Kun Yim learned to draw as the Old Masters did and believes that to render the essence of life in portrait drawing, one must continue to pursue the old ways. This philosophy and methodology relies on a holistic approach to observation, analysis and critical-thinking honed through time and patience.