Useful Usable Desirable

Author : Aaron Schmidt
Publisher : ALA Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780838912263
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Useful, Usable, Desirable written by Aaron Schmidt and published by ALA Editions. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Useful, useable, desirable: like three legs of a stool, if your library is missing the mark on any one of these it's bound to wobble.

Author : Peter Morville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692225585
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intertwingled written by Peter Morville and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about everything. Or, to be precise, it explores how everything is connected from code to culture. We think we're designing software, services, and experiences, but we're not. We are intervening in ecosystems. Until we open our minds, we will forever repeat our mistakes. In this spirited tour of information architecture and systems thinking, Peter Morville connects the dots between authority, Buddhism, classification, synesthesia, quantum entanglement, and volleyball. In 1974 when Ted Nelson wrote "everything is deeply intertwingled," he hoped we might realize the true potential of hypertext and cognition. This book follows naturally from that.

Author : Dan Saffer
Publisher : New Riders
ISBN 13 : 0321643399
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing for Interaction written by Dan Saffer and published by New Riders. This book was released on 2010 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With emphasis on the designer's role in strategy, research, brainstorming, prototyping and development, this book is devoted to teaching interaction design to those new to the field.

Author : Laura Klein
Publisher : Rosenfeld Media
ISBN 13 : 1933820454
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Build Better Products written by Laura Klein and published by Rosenfeld Media. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s easier than ever to build a new product. But developing a great product that people actually want to buy and use is another story. Build Better Products is a hands-on, step-by-step guide that helps teams incorporate strategy, empathy, design, and analytics into their development process. You’ll learn to develop products and features that improve your business’s bottom line while dramatically improving customer experience.

Author : Jon Kolko
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780123809315
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thoughts on Interaction Design written by Jon Kolko and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughts on Interaction Design, Second Edition, contemplates and contributes to the theory of Interaction Design by exploring the semantic connections that live between technology and form that are brought to life when someone uses a product. It defines Interaction Design in a way that emphasizes the intellectual and cultural facets of the discipline. This edition explores how changes in the economic climate, increased connectivity, and international adoption of technology affect designing for behavior and the nature of design itself. Ultimately, the text exists to provide a definition that encompasses the intellectual facets of the field, the conceptual underpinnings of interaction design as a legitimate human-centered field, and the particular methods used by practitioners in their day-to-day experiences. This text is recommended for practicing designers: interaction designers, industrial designers, UX practitioners, graphic designers, interface designers, and managers. Provides new and fresh insights on designing for behavior in a world of increased connectivity and mobility and how design education has evolved over the decades Maintains the informal-yet-informative voice that made the first edition so popular

Author : Elizabeth Goodman
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0123848709
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Observing the User Experience written by Elizabeth Goodman and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research aims to bridge the gap between what digital companies think they know about their users and the actual user experience. Individuals engaged in digital product and service development often fail to conduct user research. The book presents concepts and techniques to provide an understanding of how people experience products and services. The techniques are drawn from the worlds of human-computer interaction, marketing, and social sciences. The book is organized into three parts. Part I discusses the benefits of end-user research and the ways it fits into the development of useful, desirable, and successful products. Part II presents techniques for understanding people’s needs, desires, and abilities. Part III explains the communication and application of research results. It suggests ways to sell companies and explains how user-centered design can make companies more efficient and profitable. This book is meant for people involved with their products’ user experience, including program managers, designers, marketing managers, information architects, programmers, consultants, and investors. Explains how to create usable products that are still original, creative, and unique A valuable resource for designers, developers, project managers - anyone in a position where their work comes in direct contact with the end user Provides a real-world perspective on research and provides advice about how user research can be done cheaply, quickly and how results can be presented persuasively Gives readers the tools and confidence to perform user research on their own designs and tune their software user experience to the unique needs of their product and its users

Author : Laura Klein
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1492049549
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book UX for Lean Startups written by Laura Klein and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p>Great user experiences (UX) are essential for products today, but designing one can be a lengthy and expensive process. With this practical, hands-on book, you’ll learn how to do it faster and smarter using Lean UX techniques. UX expert Laura Klein shows you what it takes to gather valuable input from customers, build something they’ll truly love, and reduce the time it takes to get your product to market. No prior experience in UX or design is necessary to get started. If you’re an entrepreneur or an innovator, this book puts you right to work with proven tips and tools for researching, identifying, and designing an intuitive, easy-to-use product. Determine whether people will buy your product before you build it Listen to your customers throughout the product’s lifecycle Understand why you should design a test before you design a product Get nine tools that are critical to designing your product Discern the difference between necessary features and nice-to-haves Learn how a Minimum Viable Product affects your UX decisions Use A/B testing in conjunction with good UX practices Speed up your product development process without sacrificing quality

Author : Kim Goodwin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118079884
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing for the Digital Age written by Kim Goodwin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-25 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you’re designing consumer electronics, medical devices, enterprise Web apps, or new ways to check out at the supermarket, today’s digitally-enabled products and services provide both great opportunities to deliver compelling user experiences and great risks of driving your customers crazy with complicated, confusing technology. Designing successful products and services in the digital age requires a multi-disciplinary team with expertise in interaction design, visual design, industrial design, and other disciplines. It also takes the ability to come up with the big ideas that make a desirable product or service, as well as the skill and perseverance to execute on the thousand small ideas that get your design into the hands of users. It requires expertise in project management, user research, and consensus-building. This comprehensive, full-color volume addresses all of these and more with detailed how-to information, real-life examples, and exercises. Topics include assembling a design team, planning and conducting user research, analyzing your data and turning it into personas, using scenarios to drive requirements definition and design, collaborating in design meetings, evaluating and iterating your design, and documenting finished design in a way that works for engineers and stakeholders alike.

Author : Don Norman
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465004172
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emotional Design written by Don Norman and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why attractive things work better and other crucial insights into human-centered design Emotions are inseparable from how we humans think, choose, and act. In Emotional Design, cognitive scientist Don Norman shows how the principles of human psychology apply to the invention and design of new technologies and products. In The Design of Everyday Things, Norman made the definitive case for human-centered design, showing that good design demanded that the user's must take precedence over a designer's aesthetic if anything, from light switches to airplanes, was going to work as the user needed. In this book, he takes his thinking several steps farther, showing that successful design must incorporate not just what users need, but must address our minds by attending to our visceral reactions, to our behavioral choices, and to the stories we want the things in our lives to tell others about ourselves. Good human-centered design isn't just about making effective tools that are straightforward to use; it's about making affective tools that mesh well with our emotions and help us express our identities and support our social lives. From roller coasters to robots, sports cars to smart phones, attractive things work better. Whether designer or consumer, user or inventor, this book is the definitive guide to making Norman's insights work for you.

Author : Donald Reinertsen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684839911
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing the Design Factory written by Donald Reinertsen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Developing Products in Half the Time, this book presents a comprehensive approach to managing design-in-process inventory.