Understanding Context

Praise for Understanding Context

“Engaging, never shying away from tackling and unraveling the complexity that lies behind the simplest turns of language, this book explains plainly and clearly why designers should pay attention to much-misused concepts such as sense and place, and simultaneously provides sound and elegant foundations for a new and embodied approach to the architectures of information spaces. A necessary read for both those who want to understand the interplay of language, place, information architecture, and design practice and for those who create products and services spanning the digital and the physical, where context is everything.”

—ANDREA RESMINI, PHD—AUTHOR, PERVASIVE INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE; SENIOR LECTURER IN INFORMATICS, JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL

“For all those times when someone says something like, “this is not my beautiful life” when they’re using your design, you’ve probably ignored their context. Andrew masterfully makes the case for meeting users where they are, and putting context in its proper place: at the center of making meaningful design.”

—DANA CHISNELL

“Andrew Hinton has created a rigorous and wide-ranging framework for thinking about how we perceive and interact with our linguistic and digital environments. This framework is based on cutting edge cognitive science, and the result is an invaluable guide and common language for all the different people who create and want to understand these relatively new human environments places.” ...