When Brian Solis printed X: The Expertise When Enterprise Meets Design, it was lauded as probably the greatest books to seize the zeitgeist of the digital revolution whereas laying out a sensible blueprint to guide the way forward for fashionable buyer expertise design and innovation.
Even as we speak, the ebook nonetheless leads the way in which ahead, particularly in an period of generative AI. And as testomony to its endurance relevance and worth, Bookauthority simply introduced X as one of many “Finest Buyer Expertise Books of All Time!”
Moreover, X was and nonetheless is acknowledged for its beautiful design, not widespread, on the time, amongst enterprise books. In truth, X and its predecessor, WTF: What’s the Way forward for Enterprise – Altering the Method Companies Create Experiences, sparked a pattern for enterprise ebook design to earn a spot each on bookshelves, lobbies, and low tables.
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Brian believed that for X to be taken critically as a ebook about expertise innovation that the ebook itself needed to be an expertise.
As a result of the ebook explores how digital and cell are remodeling buyer expectations and in consequence, buyer journeys, the ebook was designed as an “analog app.” It doesn’t characteristic a standard desk of contents. It’s organized by contextual themes vs linear format. And, the steadiness of written and visible narratives replicate experiences in your favourite apps vs. conventional books. Brian’s inspiration was to create a ebook that as we speak’s highschool, digital-first, college students may learn intuitively.
The form of X is shaped after an iPad as a result of a smartphone was too small.
X was designed in partnership between Brian and the wonderful group at Mekanism.
X was purported to observe Brian’s second solo ebook with Wiley, The Finish of Enterprise as Ordinary. As an alternative, the publishers felt that the hole between themes was too nice. Brian wrote WTF to bridge the hole. Initially meant as an e-book solely, Brian used the train to experiment with designing a print ebook as an analog app. This helped set the stage for X.
The “X” on the quilt is actual. It’s layers of etched glass. To present it the lighting results, the X was positioned on its again on high of a TV display screen, which was illuminated to create a spectrum of colours. The video beneath is the outcome!
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