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Ellen Lupton’s Design is Storytelling explains how good design, like good storytelling, animates ideas and draws users into meaningful experiences. The book offers a playbook for creative thinking, detailing psychological aspects of visual perception from a narrative perspective. It presents practical tools and concepts for designers working across digital apps, data visualizations, brand identities, page layouts, and retail environments, helping them harness line, shape, and form to guide users, elicit emotions, build empathy, and articulate values.
First publish date: 2017
Genre: Arts & Culture/Graphic Design
Authors: Ellen Lupton
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