About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
 | By Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin Wiley, 2007, Kindle Edition |
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This completely updated volume presents the effective and practical tools you need to design great desktop applications, Web 2.0 sites, and mobile devices. You’ll learn the principles of good product behavior and gain an understanding of Cooper’s Goal-Directed Design method, which involves everything from conducting user research to defining your product using personas and scenarios. Ultimately, you’ll acquire the knowledge to design the best possible digital products and services.
Title: About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
Sales Rank: 6344 in Books
Author: Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin
Publisher: Wiley, 3rd edition, 2007-05-07, Kindle Edition, 648 pages
- A Waste of Time
- The first thing you will notice about this book is that the author is extremely wordy. There is a constant repeat rephrasing of the same information. For instance, you will read that software developers usually don't know what they're doing nine-hundred times in the first chapter(and if the drivel in this book is the best advice a developer receives then… More reviews
- If it was all obvious, there wouldn't be a book about it!
- Scoring in the game of interaction design is very simple. You get 0 points for discovering the obvious and making it easy for the user and -10,000 points for missing it.
This book should be the bible for companies trying to turn their software products around. More reviews
- Nearly a complete course in the "Cooper Method"
- I read (and still have) the previous two editions of this book. Unlike the usual "complete revised and updated" hype for new editions, this one has had some serious re-work and expansion.
The whole structure of the book is new and very close to being a complete course/textbook in the Cooper approach to Goal-based Design. All the… More reviews
- Trite and tedious
- At every chapter in this book I thought, "Well this book's been worthless so far, but I think it gets better in the next chapter." I thought that until the last (26th) chapter, which was actually half-decent. I've never been so disappointed in a book. Any designer with the slightest bit of experience will learn nothing from this book. Nearly every piece… More reviews
- Essential Reading
- If you only get one book on interaction design, this is the one.
I picked up the second edition when I was just starting out as an interaction designer; it was a great primer and filled in a lot of the missing pieces for me. Now that I've been at it a while, it's still the book I go to whenever I have a question. I found the book reads… More reviews
