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Experience Design 18 reviews
Nathan Shedroff
Waite Group Press, 2001
experience isnt formulaic
+ Excellent Intro -- Not just for Web Design
+ great introduction to web design concepts
+ alternative thinking
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Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World: Adaptive Path on Design ... 17 reviews
Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, ...
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008
Provides basics for designing products for web software and competitive advantage alike
+ Subject to Change is a great book for shifting your mindset in customer service
+ Good choice for an intro to experience-led design
+ An excellent strategic overview of new product development practices
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Designing Interactions14 reviews
Bill Moggridge
The MIT Press, 2007
Must read for any designer, IA, usability professional
+ Great overview of interactions
+ Marcos Chilet .......Diseño de interacción.
Outstanding read about the history of how some of the things we use daily were conceptualized and designed.
Moggridge interviews some of the coolest and relevant inventors of the modern (technology) era.
The book hit a dry spell toward the end but finished strong.
As a usability and design ...
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Designing with Video: Focusing the user-centred design process
Salu Ylirisku, Jacob Buur
Springer, 2007
Digital video for user-centred co-design is an emerging field of design, gaining increasing interest in both industry and academia. It merges the traditions of design ethnography, participatory design, interaction analysis, scenario-based design, and usability studies into an integrated approach, which values the designer’s capacity to study and change the world creatively. ...
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Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science, and Technology 1 review
Sabine Seymour
Springer, 2008
Interactive Fashion
Fashionable Technology is an excellent source of information about the topic of Wearable Electronic, the fusion of technology and fashion.
The book contains a extensive overview of wearable electronic projects and products starting with the first emergence of this fast growing technology up to ...
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Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists11 reviews
Casey Reas, Ben Fry
The MIT Press, 2007
More than a reference book!
+ A terse review
+ A pedagogic masterpiece
+ Great book from the creators...
+ Processing: Everything you need to know and then some...
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Universal Principles of Design 53 reviews
William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, ...
Rockport Publishers, 2003
Great knowledge reference
+ Great Book but.....
+ Fun to read & great presentation
+ EXCELENT!
+ good
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The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web (VOICES)38 reviews
Jesse James Garrett
New Riders Press, 2002
Fundamental, yet comprehensive
+ The Elements of User Experience
Although very basic, this book is great for getting the fundamentals of experience design. Garret creates a model that describes the web design process through five distinct stages. Then he breaks down each stage to identify the differences and overlapping areas between the web as a software ...
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Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers20 reviews
Tom Igoe, Dan O'Sullivan
Course Technology PTR, 2004
Good begginner book
+ Marcos Chilet........diseñar conductas.
+ Good starting point
+ good range.
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Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces (Interactive Technologies)6 reviews
Carolyn Snyder
Morgan Kaufmann, 2003
Great book packed with sensible advice
+ Usability and paper prototyping
+ Everything you needed to know about paper prototyping and more!
+ Everything you wanted to know about paper prototyping
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Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning32 reviews
Dan Brown
New Riders Press, 2006
Excellent Handbook for Creating Documents
+ Wheres the templates and reference material?
+ Understand how to properly design a user friendly web site.
This is an excellent handbook for creating all those design documents you'll need for communicating with others on your team. Each chapter is devoted to a single type of document and I particularly like the layered approach going from simple to complex. I've used it dozens of times in the last ...
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Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies)11 reviews
Bill Buxton
Morgan Kaufmann, 2007
The value of design
+ But one can sketch in code too
+ If you're involved in design, read this book
+ Outstanding Book
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Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects14 reviews
Tom Igoe
Make Books, 2007
Great book of projects involving communications and networking
+ MAKING THINGS TALK
+ I loved it
+ Great!
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Digital Culture
Charlie Gere
Reaktion Books, 2009
From our bank accounts to supermarket checkouts to the movies we watch, strings of ones and zeroes suffuse our world. Digital technology has defined modern society in numerous ways, and the vibrant digital culture that has now resulted is the subject of Charlie Gere’s engaging volume. In this revised and expanded second edition, taking account of new developments such as Facebook and the ...
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Experience Design18 reviews
Nathan Shedroff
Waite Group Press, 2001
experience isnt formulaic
+ Excellent Intro -- Not just for Web Design
+ great introduction to web design concepts
+ alternative thinking
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Digital Culture
Charlie Gere
Reaktion Books, 2009
From our bank accounts to supermarket checkouts to the movies we watch, strings of ones and zeroes suffuse our world. Digital technology has defined modern society in numerous ways, and the vibrant digital culture that has now resulted is the subject of Charlie Gere’s engaging volume. In this revised and expanded second edition, taking account of new developments such as Facebook and the ...
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Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces (Interactive Technologies)6 reviews
Carolyn Snyder
Morgan Kaufmann, 2003
Great book packed with sensible advice
+ Usability and paper prototyping
+ Everything you needed to know about paper prototyping and more!
+ Everything you wanted to know about paper prototyping
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Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers20 reviews
Tom Igoe, Dan O'Sullivan
Course Technology PTR, 2004
Good begginner book
+ Marcos Chilet........diseñar conductas.
+ Good starting point
+ good range.
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Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning32 reviews
Dan Brown
New Riders Press, 2006
Excellent Handbook for Creating Documents
+ Wheres the templates and reference material?
+ Understand how to properly design a user friendly web site.
This is an excellent handbook for creating all those design documents you'll need for communicating with others on your team. Each chapter is devoted to a single type of document and I particularly like the layered approach going from simple to complex. I've used it dozens of times in the last ...
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The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web (VOICES)38 reviews
Jesse James Garrett
New Riders Press, 2002
Fundamental, yet comprehensive
+ The Elements of User Experience
Although very basic, this book is great for getting the fundamentals of experience design. Garret creates a model that describes the web design process through five distinct stages. Then he breaks down each stage to identify the differences and overlapping areas between the web as a software ...
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