Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

Name: Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design
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ISBN: 9780123740373

ISBN-10: 0123740371

ISBN-13: 9780123740373

Edition: 2007

Authors: Bill Buxton

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Hardly a day goes by that we don't see an announcement for some new product or technology that is going to make our lives easier, solve some or all of our problems, or simply make the world a better place. However, the reality is that few of these products survive, much less deliver on their promise. But are we learning from these expensive mistakes? Rather than rethink the underlying process that brings these products to market, the more common strategy seems to be the shotgun method, that is, keep blasting away in the hope that one of the pellets will eventually hit the bull's eye. This book's goal is to help with this problem: to inspire and encourage HCI and other design professionals…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Publication date: 5/31/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 7.52" wide x 9.25" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



Author?s Note


Preface



Design as Dreamcatcher


Introduction


Case Study: Apple, Design and Business


The Bossy Rule A Snapshot of Today


The Role of Design A Sketch of the Process


The Cycle of Innovation


The Question of ?Design?


The Anatomy of Sketching Clarity is not always the Path to Enlightenment


The Larger Family of Renderings Experience Design vs. Interface


Design Sketching Interaction Sketches are not Prototypes


Where is the User in all of this?


You make that Sound like a Negative Thing


If Someone Made a Sketch in the Forest and Nobody Saw it?


The Object of Sharing Annotation: Sketching on Sketches Design Thinking & Ecology


The Second Worst Thing that Can Happen A River Runs Through It



Stories of Methods and Madness


Introduction


The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chameleon: From Wizardry to Smoke-and-Mirrors



Cobbling Things Together It was a Dark and Stormy Night?


Visual Story Telling Simple Animation Shoot the Mime Sketch-a-Move Extending Interaction


Real and Illusion The Bifocal Display Video Invisionment


Interacting with Paper Are you Talking to me?



Recapitulation & Coda


Some Final Thoughts



References/Bibliography