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Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices (VOICES) |
Author: Dan Saffer
Published: 2006-07-28 |
List price: $45.00
Our price: $29.70
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Interesting
This book is helping me to understand how i need to start to design interactivity for Digital Television. A must-have.
 Useless content, terrible writing
This book reads like the author sat down on a weekend afternoon, typed out a draft and simply published it. The text is basically a sequence of obvious statements. In fact, this book is so bad I don't want to waste many words reviewing it. So I am going to randomly select 4 sentences from this book:
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br /- Most applications and devices that interaction designers design have some sort of visible controls for the user to use to manipulate the features of the product. pg 136
br /- Designers should be open and nonjudgemental and should not assume that they know the answer beforehand. pg 80
br /- It is more important now than ever before that our digital tools have the characteristics of good interaction design baked into them. pg 203
br /- The system needs an assortment of responses to deal with a range of situations. pg 38
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br /Believe me, I haven't chosen these lines consciously - I closed my eyes, turned to some page, put my finger down and typed the sentence my finger landed on. The whole book is filled with such drivel.
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br /I wish I could give this item a rating of zero. Spend your money elsewhere.
 Excellent for Aspiring Interaction Designers
I am an aspiring interaction designer and this book by Dan Saffer really nails it for me in terms of laying down a coherent and well-written overview and framework.
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br /This book is essential to the interaction design community in that it defines clearly what interaction design is (and is not) in this early stage of this new industry.
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br /It is also essential reading for all beginning or aspiring interaction designers.
 Not a lot of useful information
The useful information in this book could be condensed into a 10 page article. The rest of the book is just irrelevant or uninformative photos, self evident ideas, and short interviews with designers. There is knowledge for designers between the covers - but not a bookload. This book tells you how to go about researching for design, but doesn't tell you anything about what other researchers have learned.
br /If you are looking for a book that helps you decide how to position the controls and labels on your latest widget, this isn't it.
Designing for Interaction
Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices (VOICES) is good book for me.
br /I learn digital medea design so it is good for me.
br /What is interation design?
br /I don't know well now.
br /But I will study more.
br /I want be a good designer in this field.
br /Be ambicious!
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