Designing Interactions

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Digital technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work. Designers of digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a physical object--beautiful or utilitarian--but as designing our interactions with it. In Designing Interactions, award-winning designer Bill Moggridge introduces us to forty influential designers who have shaped our interaction with technology. Moggridge, designer of the first laptop computer (the GRiD Compass, 1981) and a founder of the design firm IDEO, tells us these stories from an industry insider's viewpoint, tracing the evolution of ideas from inspiration to outcome. The innovators he interviews--including Will Wright, creator of The Sims, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, and Doug Engelbart, Bill Atkinson, and others involved in the invention and development of the mouse and the desktop--have been instrumental in making a difference in the design of interactions. Their stories chart the history of entrepreneurial design development for technology.Moggridge and his interviewees discuss such questions as why a personal computer has a window in a desktop, what made Palm's handheld organizers so successful, what turns a game into a hobby, why Google is the search engine of choice, and why 30 million people in Japan choose the i-mode service for their cell phones. And Moggridge tells the story of his 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 and how prototyping methods are evolving for the design of digital technology.Designing Interactions is illustrated with more than 700 images, with color throughout. Accompanying the book is a DVD that contains segments from all the interviews intercut with examples of the interactions under discussion.Interviews with:Bill Atkinson x95; Durrell Bishop x95; Brendan Boyle x95; Dennis Boyle x95; Paul Bradley x95; Duane Bray x95; Sergey Brin x95; Stu Card x95; Gillian Crampton Smith x95; Chris Downsx95; Tony Dunne x95; John Ellenby x95; Doug Englebart x95; Jane Fulton Suri x95; Bill Gaver x95; Bing Gordon x95; Rob Haitani x95; Jeff Hawkins x95; Matt Hunter x95; Hiroshi Ishii x95; Bert Keely x95; David Kelley x95; Rikako Kojima x95; Brenda Laurel x95; David Liddle x95; Lavrans LxF8;vlie x95; John Maeda x95; Paul Mercer x95; Tim Mott x95; Joy Mountford x95; Takeshi Natsuno x95; Larry Page x95; Mark Podlaseck x95; Fiona Raby x95; Cordell Ratzlaff x95; Ben Reason x95; Jun Rekimoto x95; Steve Rogers x95; Fran Samalionis x95; Larry Tesler x95; Bill Verplank x95; Terry Winograd x95; Will Wright