Designing Interactions

Bill Moggridge, a pioneer in interaction design and the incorporation of human factors disciplines into design practice, was the Director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City and the founder of IDEO, the well-known innovation and design firm.

A pioneer in interaction design tells the stories of designers who changed the way people use everyday objects in the digital era, interviewing the founders of Google, The Sims creator, the inventors and developers of the mouse and the desktop, and many others.

From the games we play to the tools we use at work, digital technology has changed the way we interact with everything. Designers of digital technology products no longer see their job as creating a physical object—beautiful or functional—but as creating our interactions with it. Bill Moggridge, award-winning designer, introduces us to forty influential designers who have shaped our interaction with technology in Designing Interactions. Moggridge, the designer of the first laptop computer (the GRiD Compass, 1981) and the founder of the design firm IDEO, tells us these stories from the perspective of an industry insider, tracing the evolution of ideas from inspiration to outcome. The innovators he interviews have made a difference in the design of interactions, including Will Wright, creator of The Sims, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google, and Doug Engelbart, Bill Atkinson, and others involved in the invention and development of the mouse and the desktop. Their stories trace the evolution of entrepreneurial technology design development.

Moggridge and his interviewees discuss why a personal computer has a window in its desktop, what made Palm's handheld organizers so successful, what turns a game into a hobby, why Google is the preferred search engine, and why 30 million people in Japan use the i-mode service for their cell phones. And Moggridge tells the story of his own design process and explains IDEO's successful focus on people and prototypes—how people's needs and desires can inspire innovative designs and how prototyping methods are evolving for the design of digital technology.

More than 700 images in color are used to illustrate Designing Interactions. A DVD with segments from all of the interviews intercut with examples of the interactions under discussion is included with Designing Interactions.

Author: Bill Moggridge

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Interactions-Press-Bill-Moggridge/dp/0262134748

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