Designing Interactions (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (979 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262134748 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 766 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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The award-winning designer Bill Moggridge, pioneer in interaction design and integrating human factors disciplines into design practice, was Director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City and a founder of IDEO, the famous innovation and design firm.
And Moggridge tells the story of his own design process and explains the focus on people and prototypes that has been successful at IDEO -- how the needs and desires of people can inspire innovative designs and how prototyping methods are evolving for the design of digital technology.Designing Interactions is illustrated with more than 700 images, with color throughout. Their stories chart the history of entrepreneurial design development for technology.Moggridge and his interviewees discuss such questions as why a personal computer has a window in a desktop, what made Palm's handheld organizers so successful, what turns a game into a hobby, why Google is the search engine of choice, and why 30 million people in Japan choose the i-mode service for their cell phones. Digital technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work. Moggridge, designer of the first laptop computer (the GRiD Compass, 1981) and a founder of the design firm IDEO, tells us these stories from an industry insider's viewpoint, tracing the evolution of ideas from inspiration to outcome. The innovators he interviews -- including Will Wright, creator of The Sims, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, and Doug Engelbart, Bill Atkinson, and others involved in the invention and development of the mouse and the desktop -- have been instrumental in making a diff
It's not just a well-designed, nicely indexed book, with a heft that strains the tendons (the back of my review copy cracked after only a few hours of gentle use), but also an enclosed DVD with interviews, and a website (designinginteractions) that includes a weekly downloadable chapter. (I.D. (Professor Tom WilsonInformation Research)During the past forty years, interaction designers have powerfully transformed the daily lives of billions. What fun! (Dan Boyarski, Professor and Head, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University)All in all, I cannot recommend this book too highly: it is fascinating, stimulating and illuminating. Written by the designer who was there, who helped make it happen, who pioneered the digital revolution. Essential, exciting, and a delight for both eyes and mind. (B
Excellent book This is a good textbook, but there is an issue that readers might want to be aware of. The book I purchased was published in 2007, but the most of the examples detailed in the book are of products/software older than that. Really that isn't an issue as the focus of this textbook is on functionality and human . A history told from many perspectives Trevor Burnham The title of this book might suggest that it's an introduction to the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). It's not, though I would recommend it to anyone going into that field. Rather, this is a collection of interviews, heavily edited and stylized, that tell the story of the mouse; the Xerox Star (tho. A History Book but short on principles & theory for the beginner Terry W. Strong This is a great history book of interaction and product design by the heavy hitters in the digital industry. It's great for history, but if you want a book to learn from, this is not it. It's a huge collection of 42 interviews and is 735 pages with a lot of photos of how those experts did it. The last chapter