Book description
Building products and services that people interact with is the
big challenge of the 21st century. Dan Saffer has done an amazing
job synthesizing the chaos into an understandable, ordered
reference that is a bookshelf must-have for anyone thinking of
creating new designs.”
— Jared Spool, CEO of User Interface Engineering
Interaction design is all around us. If you’ve ever wondered
why your mobile phone looks pretty but doesn’t work well,
you’ve confronted bad interaction design. But if you’ve
ever marveled at the joy of using an iPhone, shared your photos on
Flickr, used an ATM machine, recorded a television show on TiVo, or
ordered a movie off Netflix, you’ve encountered good
interaction design: products that work as well as they look.
Interaction design is the new field that defines how our
interactive products behave. Between the technology that powers our
devices and the visual and industrial design that creates the
products’ aesthetics lies the practice that figures out how
to make our products useful, usable, and desirable.
This thought-provoking new edition of Designing for
Interaction offers the perspective of one of the most respected
experts in the field, Dan Saffer. This book will help you
learn to create a design strategy that differentiates your
product from the competition
use design research to uncover people’s behaviors, motivations, and goals in order to design for them
employ brainstorming best practices to create innovativenew products and solutions
understand the process and methods used to define product
behavior
It also offers interviews and case studies from industry leaders on prototyping, designing in an Agile environment, service design, ubicomp, robots, and more.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- About the Author
- Introduction
- 1. What Is Interaction Design?
- 2. The Four Approaches to Interaction Design
- 3. Design Strategy
- 4. Design Research
- 5. Structured Findings
- 6. Ideation and Design Principles
- 7. Refinement
- 8. Prototyping, Testing, and Development
- 9. The Future of Interaction Design
- Epilogue: Designing for Good
- Index
Product information
- Title: Designing for Interaction: Creating Innovative Applications and Devices, Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2009
- Publisher(s): New Riders
- ISBN: 9780321679406
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