An engaging, informative, and enjoyable history of interaction design that helps us appreciate the contributions of some incredible people who shaped this corner of the design field. What fun! -- Dan Boyarski, Professor and Head, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University An engaging, informative, and enjoyable history of interaction design that helps us appreciate the contributions of some incredible people who shaped this corner of the design field. What fun! -- Dan Boyarski, Professor and Head, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University This will be the book that summarizes how the technology of interaction came into being and prescribes how it will advance in the future. Written by the designer who was there, who helped make it happen, who pioneered the digital revolution. Essential, exciting, and a delight for both eyes and mind. -- Don Norman, Nielsen Norman Group and Northwestern University, author of Emotional Design
The award-winning designer Bill Moggridge, pioneer in interaction design and integrating human factors disciplines into design practice, was Director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City and a founder of IDEO, the famous innovation and design firm.
All in all, I cannot recommend this book too highly: it is
fascinating, stimulating and illuminating.
*Information Research*
During the past forty years, interaction designers have powerfully
transformed the daily lives of billions. Designing Interactions is
a deeply knowing, intimate portrayal of these people: who they are,
how they think, and precisely what they do. If you live or work
with computers or cell phones—and who among us has any choice about
that?—then you owe it to yourself to read this. A labor of love
that was years in the making, this classic has no rival in its
field.
*Bruce Sterling, author of Shaping Things*
Designing Interactions offers multiple interfaces in its own right.
It's not just a well-designed, nicely indexed book, with a heft
that strains the tendons (the back of my review copy cracked after
only a few hours of gentle use), but also an enclosed DVD with
interviews, and a website (designinginteractions.com) that includes
a weekly downloadable chapter. There's an inherent lesson in this
arrangement, which is the value of choice. The very randomness of
Moggridge's archive shows the truest quality of good interaction
design: personality.
*I.D. Magazine*
This is one hell of a book...Part history lesson, part computer
science thesis, part design education, part personal design
philosophy, it is fascinating, inspirational, occasionally
baffling, and often hilarious.
*BusinessWeek.com*
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