Designing Interactions

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Customer Reviews:

Terribly Self-Indulgent [Posted on 2008-03-25]
This book is a terribly self-indulgent view of interaction design. There is no real analysis in this book or critical thinking. It's mostly a collection of simple stories from companies or efforts that Moggridge likes. There is no real theory offered here, only anecdotes. It's also a very Silicon Valley-centric view of the world. If you are looking for a partial history of interesting "interaction" design efforts, this book may be for you. Though, perhaps, not at the price it sells for.

Marcos Chilet .......Diseño de interacción. [Posted on 2008-03-28]
En este libro se revisan una serie de autores que son relevantes en el campo del diseño de interacción. Podemos encontrar desde Brenda Laurel hablando del desarrollo de juegos para niñas, hasta los creadores de Google. No es un libro que profundice en los temas, es más bién un útil panóptico del desarrollo del diseño de interacción.

Marcos Chilet
Diseño, Pontificia Universidad catolica de chile.

Great overview of interactions [Posted on 2008-04-16]
This book makes you think a lot about how interactions have been designed. It has a lot of great examples and I even picked up a few tricks on storyboarding my interactions and designs. Well done.

So So - Ups & Downs... but worth reading [Posted on 2008-05-01]
The book provides some good insights into the world of interaction design.
However, it's a bit boring and too much of a history lesson.

While the information provided within is a nice examination of various things previously done, the book provides little about how to go about processing or coming up with the information or general practices for doing so in your own project(s). However, if you have a generally analytical mind, you can definitely pull some of that information out of it. The few gems of knowledge as applied to products already designed are very valuable and the proper descriptions were chosen for each.

The "interviews" contained within the book are a bit too disparate for my tastes, though. There is a lack of general cohesion that causes the book to "feel" off-topic, even though it is all related. Focus seems to be lost on the underlying reason for the book (even based on the forward, description, etc.).

There's a lot there, but you're going to have to pick it out for yourself. The book definitely lacks the ability to state what the intentions of varies arguments and examinations are but what is there is valuable.

Must read for any designer, IA, usability professional [Posted on 2008-09-08]
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 professional I found this book to be a good read on perspective, and to read the techniques and methods used to develop new things.

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