richly informative. and concise to boot. interaction designers, visual designers, researchers, people working in visualization, and the curious will find value in this book. careful readers will gain a deep understanding of how, why, and what we see. this understanding will inform the use of color, edges, contours, textures, layout, text, images, order and motion. …
sketching user experiences, by bill buxton
this is a wonderful book on getting the right design (divergent ideation) and the design right (convergent iteration). on the surface, buxton focuses on what it takes for interaction designers to create breakthrough products, but the ideas are equally applicable to research in hci and visualization. if students developed the habit of inexpensively “sketching” their …
emotional design is, eh, ok
i’m a fan of don norman’s design of everyday things, so i picked up emotional design with great expectations. i was disappointed. i expected a richer, tighter explanation of the interplay between emotion and design, a book full of models, insights, and design directives. norman doesn’t completely fail in these regards, but neither does emotional …
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