Interaction Design
| 2002-01-17 00:00:00 | | 0 | Human Computer Interaction
Accomplished authors, Preece, Rogers and Sharp, have written a key new textbook on this core subject area. Interaction Design deals with a broad scope of issues, topics and paradigms that has traditionally been the scope of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design (ID). The book covers psychological and social aspects of users, interaction styles, user requirements, design approaches, usability and evaluation, traditional and future interface paradigms and the role of theory in informing design. The topics will be grounded in the design process and the aim is to present relevant issues in an integrated and coherent way, rather than assembling a collection of chapters on individual HCI topics.
KEY FEATURES:
* This truly integrated approach to HCI provides students with background information from psychology, sociology, anthropology, information systems and computer science
* Provides principles and skills for designing any technology through the use of many interesting and state of the art examples
* The author supported, highly interactive Web Site provides resources that allow students to collaborate on experiments, participate in design competitions, collaborate on design, find resources and communicate with others
* The accompanying Web Site also features examples, step-by-step exercises and templates for questionnaires
CONTENTS:
Preface
1. What is interaction design?
Interview with Gitta Saloman
2. Understanding and conceptualizing interaction
Interview with Terry Winograd
3. Understanding users
4. Understanding and designing for collaboration and communication
Interview with Abigail Sellen
5. Understanding how interfaces affect users
6. The process of interaction design
Interview with Gillian Crampton Smith
7. Identifying needs and establishing requirements
Interview with Suzanne Robertson
8. Design, prototyping and construction
9. User-centered approaches to interaction design
Interview with Karen Holtzblatt
10. Introducing evaluation
11. A framework for evaluation
12. Observing users
Interview with Sara Bly
13. Asking users and experts
Interview with Jakob Nielsen
14. Testing and modeling users
Interview with Ben Shneiderman
15. Doing design and evaluation in the real world: communicators and advisory systems
Epilogue
Glossary
User review
Good book on the history of design
This book walks through the history of design activities in the
computing history, with regard to both hardware design and software
design. It presents a serial of great designs, starting from the
invention of mouse, desktop window system, mobile devices, games and internet
services. You will find some grand names in the IT industry,
XEROX, APPLE, PALM, GOOGLE. It also talks about the design
methodology. It emphasizes the importance of usability study, quick
prototyping iterations and techniques. This book covers an extensive
range of electronics design, most of which you should already be familiar with.
However, this book is too early published to include the
iPhone, which I think is the finest design, state-of-the-art.
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User review
Good Seller - Highly Recommended
Great seller and comes highly recommended. Product was delivered as product and in condition as promised. THANK YOU!!!
User review
A classic!
Great book and an instant classic. Nothing else really compares at present on the subject of interaction design.
User review
loving every bit of it
I really like this book because to me it seems to have an air of 'this is the way we see it, but if you think this or that is better by all means do that'. I find a lot of authors on the subject give you 'their' view on thing whereas Sharp, Rogers & Preece sort of seem to show you what's out there and what you can do with it and for the rest you decide what it is you think is best for you.
Very extensive, great book covering loads of industries where interaction designers do their work (or should!).
If I'd have found this book sooner, there would be quite a few I would have left on the bookshelf.
User review
Not sure if it's the book or the class I took,,.
I would prefer to give this book 1 or 2 stars, but to be fair, I am giving it 3 stars. I just took an HCI Design class and this was the required book. Based on the course syllabus, this book was very unorganized in conveying specific information. It was more like a reference tool, rather than a learning tool. Also, there are many errors in the text, which I have already e-mailed to the author and publisher. These are content errors, not grammar and spelling. Anyway, I could see this being a useful book if you want a very broad understanding of HCI, but for more intricate knowledge, I give this book 2 thumbs down.