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Summary: History and Current State
Comment: Excellent historical overview of how the practice and industry of interaction design came to be.
Also has varied and interesting interviews with both pioneers and everyday practioneers in several different fields.
Moggridge does a good job of tying all the interviews and ideas together into a smooth narrative flow.
Highly recommended, interesting read. Great value for the money, even when you don't consider the included DVD of interview snipplets.
Downside: Has an IDEO-bias and that's not too unexpected.
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Summary: Interactions = more than websites
Comment: Somehow I didn't pick up on this until I actualy paged through the book physically -- this isn't just about website or multimedia. It's about anything that has a human interface, including laptop computers. (Unfortunately, Amazon pairs it with many Internet/website design books, adding to my confusion.)
Because it seems to cover the whole range of interface use and recent history, I didn't really go farther into the book to review it.
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Summary: Interesting, helpful
Comment: I just got the book for a week, read half of it. it's quite interesting to know something happens in the last 30 years, the author come up with interviewing the guy who made these things happen, let the guys explain their thoughts on the cases, this make the book interesting and helpful.
It's a pity that the book go too fast for each case, when you want to know more details, it stops. Anyway, this book seems dosent want to serve as something try to reach this goal. so this is not the weakness of the book.
Most important thing, when reading it , you'll get the interesting pieces. And it guide you to walk along the colorful road in the IxD forest. This is really cool book.
Something make it not so nice. To thick to put into the bag.
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Summary: Add this book to your product development library - NOW!
Comment: It's easy to get carried away with the claims that Moggride's book is an instant classic. But I'd have to agree, this book would be worth paying more than $100 for. The book carries its wisdom well, and now sits on my work bookshelf for constant reference. I will use this while planning for and conducting user experience based products. This book does concentrate more in the field of software development, however the lessons translate well into general product design. As such I'd recommend this book to any designer who is interested in improving their user centred products.
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Summary: A must have for any user experience practioner or student
Comment: It's a great volume at a great price. The content is very approachable and readable, almost like a coffee table book to introduce the power and effect of great user experience and interaction design to non industry folk. Its a classic in the same league as books by Norman and by Papanek. The DVD shows that this book was well thought with the same craft as other Ideo products. I also recommend the book "Art of Innovation" which talks about Ideo specifically and the practices they use.
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