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On my first trip to Amsterdam I met Oliver, a design student who was a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend, yet he was gracious enough to show me and a couple other grungy backpackers around his city, and even invited us into his home. During the course of his tour I watched him interact with people in several different languages: French, German, English.

"How is it you speak so many languages?" I asked, the pot smoke wafting through the cafe rendering me somewhat naive.

"Everyone educated in Holland speaks this many languages," he replied.

"Why?"

"Because people from other countries will never learn Dutch."

Nevertheless, designers Jop Timmers and Mirjam van der Waals have written a book about design processes in practice that we'd love to read...but it appears the darn thing is in Dutch.

It is an educational book for students in technical and creative studies. Jop and Mirjam used their experiences in both teaching and practising product design to write a hands-on manual with easy-to-apply design theory, tricks and tips and many examples from everyday design practise.

Timmers is a Senior Design Consultant at Amsterdam-based design consultancy Reggs. For our Dutch audience, the book, 'Het ontwerpproces in de praktijk,' is available here.

I know my boss might give me crap about naming this blog post in Dutch--leading English-speaking feed readers to scratch their heads--but if no one else will learn your language, it's the least I can do!