Books
Play Up Your Impact
A handy step-by-step guide to effectively describe and hype the impact of design, research, and content strategy when everyone thinks it’s optional.
"Play Up Your Impact" is a mini-guide written for designers, researchers, strategists, writers, or any other professional who wants to improve their skills in using data to understand their impact at work. This book shares a practical, ethical approach to analyzing and advocating how your work contributes to the bottom line by utilizing data, statistics, and storytelling.
In Play Up Your Impact, Second Wave Dive founder Ryan Rumsey draws from his personal experiences from leading design and design teams at Apple, EA, Nestlé, and USAA to offer encouragement, motivation, and strategies tailored for leaders at in-house teams.
Business Thinking for Designers
Bring a business mind to design and transform your career and company.
Published by InVision, this is a guidebook to help designers gain more trust and build better relationships with business partners, empowering great work.
Written by SWD founder Ryan Rumsey, this book is chock full of details on how designers can speak the dialects of colleagues, communicate design value in new ways, and incorporate business impact into their approach.