Microinteractions: Full Color Edition

Praise for Microinteractions

“Dan Saffer’s book, Microinteractions, is the best book I’ve read about design in ages. I’ve been working in design for 20 years and often have younger designers ask me for advice, or how to achieve their grand design dreams. Most books about design are similarly grand and presume that everyone knows the basics well enough to do the little things well. The world proves this not to be true. Spend an afternoon strolling around town with a gaggle of caffeinated interaction designers and you’ll hear an endless commentary on the details the designers of the world have gotten wrong.

The book itself is wonderfully self-consistent: it’s short, concise, well designed and brilliant. The fun and salient examples nail Saffer’s points, and his writing is sharp, incisive, and with just enough comedic curmudgeonry to keep you smiling most of the way through.”

—Scott Berkun

“Microinteractions is a book I’ve wanted for a very long time. I’ve needed a thoughtful, insightful, and concise understanding of how to look at interaction design at the atomic level. Dan’s delivered that in spades.”

—Jared Spool, User Interface Engineering

“Microinteractions is an essential guide to designing in today’s world where a typical person touches a hundred different user experiences each day, and only the clearest interactions will turn a new user experience into a cherished product.

“In this book, Dan Saffer turns the Cognitive Walkthrough on its head and takes it to the next level, creating ...