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Ruin a Classic Design Book Title by Adding One Word

"Presentation Meltdown Techniques," etc.

By Rain Noe - February 5, 2020

There's a fairly funny meme going around started by Jimmy Fallon called #AddaWordRuinABook. It's similar to those wordplay contests periodically held by The New Yorker, and here are some examples:

I can't top any of those, but I thought I'd at least give the treatment to design books--those classic tomes that we either bought in school or read to keep up after we joined the workforce.

Here we go:

- Architecture: Form, Space Aliens & Order

- The Art Carney of Innovation

- Cradle to Charging Cradle

- Creative Gambling Marker Techniques

- The Design of Everyday Carry Things

- Designing Awkward Interactions

- Designing Designey Design

- Presentation Meltdown Techniques

- Product Design and Development Hell

- Universal Studios' Principles of Design

These aren't knocks on the books, of course; and if you're a design student looking for any of these, below are links to the real deal.

Architecture: Form, Space & Order by Francis D.K. Ching

The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO by Tom Kelley

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by Michael Braungart and William McDonough

Creative Marker Techniques by Yoshiharu Shimizu

The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge

Designing Design by Kenya Hara

Presentation Techniques by Dick Powell

Product Design and Development by Karl Ulrich & Steven Eppinger

Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden & Jill Butler

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Design for MTV's The Real World

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Cross Product Design and Development
The Impressionist Art of Innovation
Presentation Cancellation Techniques
Creative Grave Marker Techniques
The Conspiratorial Design of Everyday Things
(this works even better with the original title:
The Conspiratorial Psychology of Everyday Things)
Designing Women Interactions
Architecture Form, Space, and Mail Order

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-The Art of Unnecessary Innovation
-Creative Genetic Marker Techniques
-Product Design and Impaired Development
-Erotic Presentation Techniques

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I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.