HCI
Human Computer Interaction
Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini was Apple's "Human Interface Evangelist" at the time he wrote this book. His wry sense of humor and engaging writing style make this a fun read as well as informative. Tog was there in the formative years of the user interface of the Apple and Mac operating systems. His guidelines are foundational for those seeking to design user interfaces even today. The book's content and layout come from his monthly question and answer column in the Apple Direct magazine. While To
This book is fascinating! Over 700 glossy pages take you on a journey through the field of interaction design. (It's a heavy book.. be careful when you pick it up!) Bill Moggridge in Designing Interactions, does a masterful job of presenting the history, the personalities and the principles of the field of interaction design. If you write software, design hardware, design products or are just interested in some really cool stuff... this book is for you!
This is the third "edition" of Cooper's excellent book on human computer interaction design. Cooper's primary tenet in these books is that software is poorly designed, primarily because programmers don't understand what users need and users don't know how to articulate those needs. He argues that designers are needed as intermediates to translate what users really need into terms that programmers can program to.
This is a collection of chapters that are essentially research papers by various authors. The subject matter is generally along the lines of HCI, however some of the topics are very narrow. Among the topics are utilizing AI for the interface, creating better e-commerce web sites and incorporating HCI concepts into the software development life cycle. If you are interested in researching any of these topics, each chapter is well research and each has its own bibliography. What follows is not
Donald Norman provides an excellent treatise in the design issues surrounding usability. He focuses most of his effort on the design of physical products such as automobiles, home appliances and building components, however his attention to computer interaction design is very prescient considering the year of this book’s publishing.
This "review" is more of a sketch of notes I took while reading this book. Crandall, Klein and Hoffman deliver an intensely practical look into a realm of psychology that could be very difficult to comprehend. The book surrounds the notion of Cognitive Task Analysis which is essentially a method of studying how people think. Klein's work has surrounded primarily the way people make decisions (Sources of Power) however in Working Minds the authors also look at how people learn to do new jobs,