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        Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life

        Inspired by John Maeda’s ground-breaking book, The Laws of Simplicity, this series of brief, informative volumes is intended to bring to a broad audience new ideas forunderstanding and improving our lives — ideas that integrate perspectives from the worlds of design, technology, and business.

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        Simulation and Its Discontents

        Simulation and Its Discontents

        Simulation and Its Discontents

        by Sherry Turkle

        With William J. Clancey, Stefan Helmreich, Yanni Alexander Loukissas and Natasha Myers

        ISBN: 9780262546799

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 1, 2022

        How the simulation and visualization technologies so pervasive in science, engineering, and design have changed our way of seeing the world.
        The Plenitude

        The Plenitude

        The Plenitude

        Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff

        by Rich Gold

        Foreword by John Maeda

        ISBN: 9780262543798

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 22, 2021

        Lessons from and for the creative professions of art, science, design, and engineering: how to live in and with the Plenitude, that dense, knotted ecology of human-made stuff that creates the need for more of itself.
        The Laws of Simplicity

        The Laws of Simplicity

        The Laws of Simplicity

        by John Maeda

        ISBN: 9780262539470

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 1, 2020

        Ten laws of simplicity for business, technology, and design that teach us how to need less but get more.
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        How Inclusion Shapes Design

        by Kat Holmes

        Foreword by John Maeda

        ISBN: 9780262539487

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 1, 2020

        How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.
        The Storm of Creativity

        The Storm of Creativity

        The Storm of Creativity

        by Kyna Leski

        Foreword by John Maeda

        ISBN: 9780262539494

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 11, 2020

        The stages of the creative process—from “unlearning” to beginning again—seen through examples from the practice of artists, architects, poets, and others.
        The Importance of Small Decisions

        The Importance of Small Decisions

        The Importance of Small Decisions

        by Michael J. O'Brien, R. Alexander Bentley and William A. Brock

        Foreword by John Maeda

        ISBN: 9780262039741

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 12, 2019

        How people make decisions in an era of too much information and fake news.
        The Acceleration of Cultural Change

        The Acceleration of Cultural Change

        The Acceleration of Cultural Change

        From Ancestors to Algorithms

        by R. Alexander Bentley and Michael J. O'Brien

        Foreword by John Maeda

        ISBN: 9780262036955

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 25, 2017

        How culture evolves through algorithms rather than knowledge inherited from ancestors.
        I’ll Have What She’s Having

        I'll Have What She's Having

        I'll Have What She's Having

        Mapping Social Behavior

        by R. Alexander Bentley, Mark Earls and Michael J. O'Brien

        Foreword by John Maeda

        ISBN: 9780262016155

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 26, 2011

        How we learn from those around us: an essential guide to understanding how people behave.
        Redesigning Leadership

        Redesigning Leadership

        Redesigning Leadership

        by John Maeda

        With Rebecca J Bermont

        ISBN: 9780262015882

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 25, 2011

        Lessons for a new generation of leaders on teamwork, meetings, conversations, free food, social media, apologizing, and other topics.
        Reimagining Design

        Reimagining Design

        Reimagining Design

        Unlocking Strategic Innovation

        by Kevin G. Bethune

        ISBN: 9780262548472

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 6, 2024

        The power of transformative design, multidisciplinary leaps, and diversity: lessons from a Black professional's journey through corporate America.
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