About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design 4th Edition

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

About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, FourthEdition is the latest update to the book that shaped andevolved the landscape of interaction design. This comprehensiveguide takes the worldwide shift to smartphones and tablets intoaccount. New information includes discussions on mobile apps,touch interfaces, screen size considerations, and more. Thenew full-color interior and unique layout better illustrate moderndesign concepts.

The interaction design profession is blooming with the successof design-intensive companies, priming customers to expect "design"as a critical ingredient of marketplace success. Consumers havelittle tolerance for websites, apps, and devices that don't live upto their expectations, and the responding shift in businessphilosophy has become widespread. About Face isthe book that brought interaction design out of the research labsand into the everyday lexicon, and the updated FourthEdition continues to lead the way with ideas and methodsrelevant to today's design practitioners anddevelopers.

Updated information includes:

Contemporary interface, interaction, and product designmethods
Design for mobile platforms and consumer electronics
State-of-the-art interface recommendations and up-to-dateexamples
Updated Goal-Directed Design methodology

Designers and developers looking to remain relevant through thecurrent shift in consumer technology habits will find AboutFace to be a comprehensive, essential resource.

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From the Back Cover

MASTERING INTERACTION DESIGN FOR NEW DEVICES ANDINTERFACES.

The first three editions of About Face shaped the evolution ofinteraction design, bringing it from development shops and researchlabs into the everyday language of product marketing, design anddevelopment. This fourth edition, the most significant revisionyet, features a stunning new design and a full color interior.Addressing the many changes in the design landscape since its lastpublication, this new edition includes interaction methods andstrategies for touchscreen phones and tablets, as well as updatedchapters for the web and for desktop applications.

THIS NEW EDITION FEATURES

Updated interaction design principles, patterns, andpractices
New content relevant to mobile platforms and differing screensizes
Updated examples reflecting current state-of-the-artinterfaces
The latest iteration of Cooper’s popular Goal-DirectedDesign methodology

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

ALAN COOPER is a founder of Cooper and a pioneer ofmodern computing. His groundbreaking work has influenced ageneration of programmers, business people, and users.

ROBERT REIMANN was founding president of the InteractionDesign Association (IxDA). He is Principal Interaction Designer atPatientsLikeMe, and former Director of Design R&D atCooper.

DAVID CRONIN is a Design Director at GE. He was alsoDirector of Interaction Design at Smart Design, and a formerManaging Director at Cooper.

CHRISTOPHER NOESSEL is Cooper’s first DesignFellow, and the co-author of Make It So. He teaches andspeaks about design all over the world.

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Paperback: 720 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 4 edition (September 2, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1118766571
ISBN-13: 978-1118766576
Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 1.6 x 9.1 inches
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Average Customer Review: 36 customer reviews
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November 21, 2014

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I don't want to ding this book on the content, the previous editions were great, but like another reviewer, the book literally cracked in half and pages started falling out the first time I (gently) opened it. Here is hoping that the publisher addresses the issue, or perhaps this is part of a bad run -- but it is pretty amazing that Wiley let these out the door.

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November 24, 2014

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Want to know how to make great software products and systems? Buy this book, read it, and share with your team. There's really nothing like it.

This is the fourth version of a 1995 book by Alan Cooper that helped launch the interaction design discipline. Written for practitioners and cited by researchers, each edition of About Face has advanced the field. And this thoroughly updated edition will do the same.

Sure, you can read blogs on the web that have interesting tidbits to say about designing for social, the niceties of interactive data displays, or gesture design for mobile. And you can certainly buy books that offer design lessons and principles. But no other resource has tackled the subject at the methodical depth and breadth that Cooper's team of writers do here.

The material is useful for newbie designers (worth the price just for the consistent and battle-tested vocabulary). What's more, the book provides philosophies, methods, and resources that experienced design managers can use to build happy design teams that programmers and executives love to work with.

The writing is often playful, the design is elegant, and the ideas are incendiary. Enjoy!

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Great content, horrible binding - it's falling apart.

December 12, 2017

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Great content for those who like process. Horrible binding. My return window has closed, but I am going to shake the tree on this one. Only a few months old, have only read about half of it and it's literally falling apart. Shameful.

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Pages are falling out!

October 17, 2015

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I love the material in the book but the pages are falling out. I'm holding the book together with binder clips. I've only read up through chapter 4 and there are 21 chapters. They don't make binder clips big enough! Am I going to need to glue it?

5/5 for content
0/5 for binding

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Get it read it & practice the approaches.

May 1, 2015

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This is a must have for all UX designers Product Managers, Project Managers, Managers, Digital Designers, Designers... The print edition looks overwhelming from the outset by it's physical appearance (Big) however once embarking on the reading adventure you will be pleasantly surprised at how digestible it is and for me entertaining. Lots of ah ha moments, highlighting and taking notes along the way. I have given my print copy of the last edition to a friend and I'm enjoying the new Kindle edition. Here is a blue print for a truly user centered approach. @creativUXdesign

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Binding is terrible

November 6, 2014

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This book gets five stars for the content. Unfortunately, a sticky note has more glue than the binding of this book. The first time I opend it the pages immediately started detaching from the spine. For a text book style book I found this very disappointing.

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Great primer for UX professionals

May 20, 2017

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Great book for anyone interested in learning about product design/research. Touches upon the most important and fundamental topics in understanding users and designing products that are user-centered. I read this book quite often just to keep my basics strong.

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It provides good frameworks for user engagements and understanding the strategic position ...

March 16, 2017

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The book is informative for product and interaction design. It provides good frameworks for user engagements and understanding the strategic position of experience designers in the development process. It goes into great detail about the user mental models and how that should inform the design of systems. Overall the content is spot on as a comprehensive look at the subject and is highly usable as a step by step guide for user engagement.

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