About Face The Essentials of Interaction Design 4th Edition by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin, Christopher Noessel ISBN 1118766571 978-1118766576

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ISBN 10: 1118766571 

ISBN 13: 978-1118766576

Author: Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin, Christopher Noessel

The essential interaction design guide, fully revised and updated for the mobile age

About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Fourth Edition is the latest update to the book that shaped and evolved the landscape of interaction design. This comprehensive guide takes the worldwide shift to smartphones and tablets into account. New information includes discussions on mobile apps, touch interfaces, screen size considerations, and more. The new full-color interior and unique layout better illustrate modern design concepts.

The interaction design profession is blooming with the success of design-intensive companies, priming customers to expect “design” as a critical ingredient of marketplace success. Consumers have little tolerance for websites, apps, and devices that don’t live up to their expectations, and the responding shift in business philosophy has become widespread. About Face is the book that brought interaction design out of the research labs and into the everyday lexicon, and the updated Fourth Edition continues to lead the way with ideas and methods relevant to today’s design practitioners and developers.

Updated information includes:

Contemporary interface, interaction, and product design methods
Design for mobile platforms and consumer electronics
State-of-the-art interface recommendations and up-to-date examples
Updated Goal-Directed Design methodology
Designers and developers looking to remain relevant through the current shift in consumer technology habits will find About Face to be a comprehensive, essential resource.

Table of contents: 

Part I: Goal-Directed Design

• Ch 1: A Design Process for Digital Products

  • The Consequences of Poor Product Behavior

  • Why Digital Products Fail

  • Planning and Designing Product Behavior

  • Recognizing User Goals

  • Implementation Models and Mental Models

  • An Overview of Goal-Directed Design

• Ch 2: Understanding the Problem: Design Research

  • Qualitative versus Quantitative Data in Design Research

  • Goal-Directed Design Research

  • Interviewing and Observing Users

  • Other Types of Qualitative Research

  • Research is Critical to Good Design

• Ch 3: Modeling Users: Personas and Goals

  • Why Model?

  • The Power of Personas

  • Why Personas Are Effective

  • Understanding Goals

  • Constructing Personas

  • Personas in Practice

  • Other Design Models

• Ch 4: Setting the Vision: Scenarios and Design Requirements

  • Bridging the Research-Design Gap

  • Scenarios: Narrative as a Design Tool

  • Design Requirements: The “What” of Interaction

  • The Requirements Definition Process

• Ch 5: Designing the Product: Framework and Refinement

  • Creating the Design Framework

  • Refining the Form and Behavior

  • Validating and Testing the Design

• Ch 6: Creative Teamwork

  • Small, Focused Teams

  • Thinking Better, Together

  • Working across Design Disciplines

  • The Extended Team

  • Establishing a Creative Culture

  • Identifying Skill Levels in Designers

  • Collaboration is the Key

Part II: Making Well-Behaved Products

• Ch 7: A Basis for Good Product Behavior

  • Design Values

  • Interaction Design Principles

  • Interaction Design Patterns

• Ch 8: Digital Etiquette

  • Designing Considerate Products

  • Designing Smart Products

  • Designing Social Products

• Ch 9: Platform and Posture

  • Product Platforms

  • Product Postures

  • Postures for the Desktop

  • Postures for the Web

  • Postures for Mobile Devices

  • Postures for Other Platforms

  • Give Your Apps Good Posture

• Ch 10: Optimizing for Intermediates

  • Perpetual Intermediates

  • Inflecting the Interface

  • Designing for Three Levels of Experience

• Ch 11: Orchestration and Flow

  • Flow and Transparency

  • Orchestration

  • Harmonious Interactions

  • Motion, Timing, and Transitions

  • The Ideal of Effortlessness

• Ch 12: Reducing Work and Eliminating Excise

  • Goal-Directed Tasks versus Excise Tasks

  • Types of Excise

  • Excise is Contextual

  • Eliminating Excise

  • Other Common Excise Traps

• Ch 13: Metaphors, Idioms, and Affordances

  • Interface Paradigms

  • Building Idioms

  • Manual Affordances

  • Direct Manipulation and Pliancy

  • Escape the Grip of Metaphor

• Ch 14: Rethinking Data Entry, Storage, and Retrieval

  • Rethinking Data Entry

  • Rethinking Data Storage

  • Rethinking Data Retrieval

• Ch 15: Preventing Errors and Informing Decisions

  • Using Rich Modeless Feedback

  • Undo, Redo, and Reversible Histories

  • What If: Compare and Preview

• Ch 16: Designing for Different Needs

  • Learnability and Help

  • Customizability

  • Localization and Globalization

  • Accessibility

• Ch 17: Integrating Visual Design

  • Visual Art and Visual Design

  • The Elements of Visual Interface Design

  • Visual Interface Design Principles

  • Visual Information Design Principles

  • Consistency and Standards

Part III: Interaction Details

• Ch 18: Designing for the Desktop

  • Anatomy of a Desktop App

  • Windows on the Desktop

  • Menus

  • Toolbars, Palettes, and Sidebars

  • Pointing, Selection, and Direct Manipulation

• Ch 19: Designing for Mobile and Other Devices

  • Anatomy of a Mobile App

  • Mobile Navigation, Content, and Control Idioms

  • Multi-Touch Gestures

  • Inter-App Integration

  • Other Devices

• Ch 20: Designing for the Web

  • Page-Based interactions

  • The Mobile Web

  • The Future

• Ch 21: Design Details: Controls and Dialogs

  • Controls

  • Dialogs

  • Eliminating Errors, Alerts, and Confirmations

  • The Devil is in the Details

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