General Design category: 1730 books
The Materiality of Interaction
Notes on the Materials of Interaction Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
A new approach to interaction design that moves beyond representation and metaphor to focus on the material manifestations of interaction.
Smart watches, smart cars, the Internet of things, 3D printing: all signal a trend toward combining digital and analog materials in design. Interaction...
Designing with the Body
Somaesthetic Interaction Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Interaction design that entails a qualitative shift from a symbolic, language-oriented stance to an experiential stance that encompasses the entire design and use cycle.
With the rise of ubiquitous technology, data-driven design, and the Internet of Things, our interactions and interfaces with...
Premio Nazionale delle Arti 2016 2017 Sezione Design
FUTURE ISIA DESIGN
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Il Premio Nazionale delle Arti è un'importante iniziativa culturale della Direzione generale per lo studente, lo sviluppo e l'internazionalizzazione della formazione superiore del Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca che lo promuove su scala nazionale. A rappresentare nel 2017...
Looking Closer 5
Critical Writings on Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
The final installment in this acclaimed series offers astute and controversial discussions on contemporary graphic design from 2001 to 2005. This collection of essays takes stock of the quality and profundity of graphic design writing published in professional and general interest design magazines,...
Design Activism
Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Design academics and practitioners are facing a multiplicity of challenges in a dynamic, complex, world moving faster than the current design paradigm which is largely tied to the values and imperatives of commercial enterprise. Current education and practice need to evolve to ensure that the discipline...
by Turkka Keinonen
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
How do we design for users? How might users best participate in the design process? How can we evaluate the user's experience of designed products and services? These fundamental questions are addressed in Designers, Users, and Justice, through a series of dialogues between a design scholar and a...
by Christopher A. Le Dantec
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
An exploration of design considerations in the design of technologies that support local collective action.
Contemporary computing technologies have thoroughly embedded themselves in every aspect of modern life—conducting commerce, maintaining and extending our networks of friends, and mobilizing...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
The Routledge Companion to Design Research offers a comprehensive examination of design research, celebrating the plurality of design research and the wide range of conceptual, methodological, technological and theoretical approaches evident in contemporary design research.
This volume comprises...
Interaction Design
From Concept to Completion
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Interaction Design explores common pitfalls, effective workflows and innovative development techniques in contemporary interaction design by tracking projects from initial idea to the critical and commercial reception of the finished project.
The book is divided into six chapters, each focusing...
Basics Interactive Design: Interface Design
An introduction to visual communication in UI design
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
If you want to design successful user interfaces then you need clear and effective visual communication.Interface Design will help you achieve this using a range of incisive case studies, interviews with professional designers and clear hands-on advice to help you produce user-focused front-end designs...
Basics Interactive Design: User Experience Design
Creating designs users really love
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
By putting people at the centre of interactive design, user experience (UX) techniques are now right at the heart of digital media design and development. As a designer, you need to create work that will impact positively on everyone who is exposed to it. Whether it's passive and immutable or interactive...
by Ken Bodnar
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
You have the power within you to be transformative digital design wizard! It takes a dazzling array of personal and professional attributes to create things that change the trajectory of how mankind interacts with others and technology. It is both a craft and a creed, a science and an art, and...
Design, Ecology, Politics
Towards the Ecocene
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Design, Ecology, Politics links social and ecological theory to design theory and practice, critiquing the ways in which the design industry perpetuates unsustainable development.
Boehnert argues that when design does engage with issues of sustainability, this engagement remains shallow, due...
Critical Fabulations
Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself.
In Critical Fabulations, Daniela Rosner proposes redefining design as investigative and activist, personal and culturally situated, responsive and responsible....