A guide to interactive system design. The author demonstrates that many interface paradigms are dead ends, and that to make computers easier to use requires new approaches. He explains how to effect needed changes, offering specific interface ideas for software designers, developers, and product managers.

Much has changed since the first edition of human-computer interaction was published. The excitement of these changes is captured in this new edition, which also looks forward to other emerging technologies. However, the book is firmly rooted in strong principles and models independent of the passing technologies of the day.

Sets out to provide a guide to good design practice.

Presents the effective and practical tools to design great desktop applications, Web 2. 0 sites, and mobile devices.

Provides insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike. This book discusses why people really leave Web sites; making sites usable and accessible; and, surviving executive design whims. It offers help for those whose bosses, clients, stakeholders, and marketing managers insist on doing the wrong thing.

Computer science as an engineering discipline has been spectacularly successful. Yet it is also a philosophical enterprise in the way it represents the world and creates and manipulates models of reality, people, and action. In this book Paul Dourish addresses the philosophical bases of human-computer interaction.

A compendium of original articles and essays from leading thinkers in the computer industry, including Alan Kay, Nicholas Negroponte, and Don Norman, surveys the range of issues relating to interface design.

Technologies have a life cycle, and they must change as they gain maturity. Alas, the computer industry thinks it is still in its rebellious years, exalting in technical complexity. In this book, the author shows why the computer is difficult to use, and why this is so fundamental to its nature.

Alan Cooper calls for a Software Revolution - his best-selling book now in trade paperback with new foreword and afterword.

This comprehensive, cross-disciplinary encyclopaedia of design pairs clear explanations of every design concept with visual examples of the concepts applied in practice. Every major design concept is defined and illustrated for readers to expand their knowledge.

This book introduces a customer-centered approach to business. In this book, you'll find the underlying principles of the method and how to apply them to different problems, constraints, and organizational situations.

This book is about how human actions and technological artifacts are intertwined.

Introduces us to 40 influential designers who have shaped our interaction with technology. This book tells the story of the author's own design process and explains the focus on people and prototypes that has been successful at IDEO - how the needs and desires of people can inspire innovative designs. It is illustrated with more than 700 images.

Do you spend a lot of time during the design process wondering what users really need? This book is a practical, how-to guide that prepares you to create and test paper prototypes of various kinds of user interfaces. It includes case studies and images that show you real world examples of paper prototyping at work.

This volume is a theoretical and practical approach to the design of computer technology.

Describes how the strategies we use to locate information have begun to change as a result of computers and telecommunications technology.

Written by the author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web , this book examines the convergence of information and connectivity. It discusses the Internet, GIS, and other network technologies that make unlimited findability possible, and explores how the melding of these innovations impacts society.

Serves as a guide to the methods of usability engineering. This book provides the tools needed to avoid usability surprises and improve product quality. It includes information on which method to use at various stages during the development lifecycle, along with information on how to run a usability test.

Deals with content and page design, designing for ease of navigation and users with disabilities. This book presents a series of principles which show: that web users want to find what they're after quickly; and, that if they don't know what they're after, they want to browse quickly and access information they come across in a logical manner.