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.

Offers advice on creating user-friendly interface designs - whether they're delivered on the Web, a CD, or a smart devices like a cell phone. This book expresses solutions to common UI design problems as a collection of patterns - each one containing concrete examples, recommendations, and warnings.

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.

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

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.

Describes some of the most important design rules and techniques that are drawn from the rational, functionalist design aesthetic seen in modern graphic design, industrial design, interior design, and architecture - and applies them to various graphical user interface problems experienced in commercial software development.

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

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.

Offers practical advice about how to achieve the qualities of great Web-based applications and consistently and successfully reproduce them. This work includes principles such as building only whats necessary, getting users up to speed quickly, preventing and handling errors, and designing for the activity.

At once a manifesto, a manual and a sourcebook, this volume presents the entire output of an artist with a fascination for the untapped artistic power of computer programming. Maeda's discoveries took him from computer studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology to art school in Japan.

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.

Focuses on what programmers need to know about UI (User Interface) design, with numerous examples of how to improve common programs.

Explores how our bodies experience and adapt to digital environments. This book argues that cyberspace is anchored in the body, and it's the body-not high-tech computer graphics that allows a person to feel like they are really moving through virtual reality.

Like previous books in the series, this new volume takes a methodical and comprehensive approach to conveying the fundamentals of avant-garde, innovative, information design by examining history, theory, criticism, technology and media, process, method, and practice.

An overview of state-of-the-art research on integrated digital work environments, this work provides a glimpse of what the next generation of information technologies for everyday use may look like.

The emergence of New Media has stimulated debate about the power of the visual to dethrone the cultural prominence of textuality and print. Some scholars celebrate the proliferation of digital images, arguing that it suggests a return to a pictorial age when knowledge was communicated through images as well as through words. Others argue that the inherent conflict between texts and images creates

Helps in understanding and programming interactive devices so that they are reliable and easy to use. This work includes several programming insights, tools, and code. It shows that we can design better interactive systems and devices if we draw on sound computer science principles.

The impact of an aesthetically pleasing user interface is remarkable. Web site visitors respond eagerly to attractive, easy-to-use designs. This book allows you to create interfaces that encourage visitors.