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books
Open for Business
£4.99 as an ebook, £9.99 as a paperback on Amazon via the link here.
The cost of inaccessible workplaces reaches far into people’s personal lives, making them less full, less rich, more grey. The cost of inaccessibility in people’s personal lives reaches far into their work life, lessening their ability to excel, reducing their opportunity to take on challenges that are personally and financially rewarding, making work more dull.
Those are the problems that the people who interact with organizations face. They are also a problem for those organizations.
Because staff are not just staff and customers are not just customers. They are people.
When you solve the problem of accessibility at the points where your organization deals with people, both when it looks in (to its staff) and when it looks out (to its customers), you will solve their problem. They will thrive. And that will solve your problem.
And the most important way to do this is by using accessible design.
The principles of accessible design can be expressed in two sentences.
Design IN as many features as possible at the earliest possible stage that mean as many people as possible have a service/workplace/product/experience they can use out of the box.
Design OUT every feature of a thing that requires someone to take a further action rather than just being able to use it out of the box.
Open for Business explains exactly what this means for any organization that wants to use accessible design to empower its staff and/or enable its customers.
Living in Longhand
£3.99 as an ebook, £8.99 as a paperback on Amazon via the links here.
Have you ever given everything in pursuit of a goal only to find that when you achieved it, after a moment’s elation you were left with nothing but emptiness, a lack of direction, no idea “what next?”
Have you ever read self-improvement advice and felt that it just doesn’t understand what makes you tick? That it limits your ambitions by reducing goals to a series of moments in time?
In this book, Dan Holloway explains how to set and pursue Sustainable Life Goals. These provide a framework that understands human lives are stories not unrelated points in time. And that the people living out those stories have many hopes, ambitions, and desires jostling alongside each other every day. This book will show you how to weave each of these strands into an immeasurably rich tapestry.
£3.99 as an ebook, £8.99 as a paperback on Amazon via the links here.
Why might your favourite pet hold the key to solving the grubbiest problems of modern city living? And how did anteaters discover their hidden talent for making ice cream? This book will help you explore new solutions to all the problems that matter most to you and to the world (as well as a whole universe of questions you’ve never considered).
Creativity is simply doing new things. But when so many of our problems, from how to get through family Christmas without a bust-up to how to solve the climate crisis, are a result of doing things the old way, finding new ways to do things is the most important skill we can acquire.
Creativity has just two ingredients: learning lots of things about lots of things; and being able to join them up in new and interesting ways. But mastering them requires a fundamental shift in our understanding of why and how we learn things: not so we can remember them but so we can use them.
From the ancient art of the mind palace to the neuroscience of jazz, this book explores, explains, and distils those basic ingredients into techniques you can use for creative learning and thinking. On the way you will learn how to read more effectively; how to turn your knowledge into rocket fuel for creativity; how to turn off your self-censor; how to take ideas apart so they are easier to connect; and a whole array of other techniques.
This is the second book in the Creative Living series, and accompanies the stunning infographic poster “Ars Creativitatis”.
The ultimate guide to creative thinking and an essential focal point for any scholar’s wall.
Ars Creativitatis (“the art of creativity”) is a stunning visualisation of the creative thinking techniques described in Dan Holloway’s book The Monk, The Mushroom, and The MRI. It is illustrated with beautiful line drawings from infographic artist Sam Warburton to replicate the appearance of a mediaeval memory palace, one of the many techniques which it outlines.
A perfect at a glance yet incredibly detailed guide to everything from how to read effectively to how to juggle creative projects; how to produce original ideas to mapping everything you know. Featuring some techniques that are thousands of years old and others the author developed to enable him to win 4 Creative Thinking World Championships.
Mycelium
One problem. Five minutes. All the answers you can imagine.
Mycelium is the award-winning creative thinking card game perfect for playing with family, friends, and colleagues. Devised by Dan Holloway, Mycelium won the 2017 Oxford Humanities Innovation Challenge.
Mycelium is now available to buy through our online store. for just £10 including shipping within the UK or £15 anywhere in the world.
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