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Smart Things - Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design (Paperback)
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Smart Things - Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design (Paperback)
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The world of smart shoes, appliances, and phones is already here,
but the practice of user experience (UX) design for ubiquitous
computing is still relatively new. Design companies like IDEO and
frogdesign are regularly asked to design products that unify
software interaction, device design and service design -- which are
all the key components of ubiquitous computing UX -- and practicing
designers need a way to tackle practical challenges of design.
Theory is not enough for them -- luckily the industry is now mature
enough to have tried and tested best practices and case studies
from the field.
Smart Things presents a problem-solving approach to addressing
designers' needs and concentrates on process, rather than
technological detail, to keep from being quickly outdated. It pays
close attention to the capabilities and limitations of the medium
in question and discusses the tradeoffs and challenges of design in
a commercial environment. Divided into two sections, frameworks and
techniques, the book discusses broad design methods and case
studies that reflect key aspects of these approaches. The book then
presents a set of techniques highly valuable to a practicing
designer. It is intentionally not a comprehensive tutorial of
user-centered design'as that is covered in many other books'but it
is a handful of techniques useful when designing ubiquitous
computing user experiences.
In short, Smart Things gives its readers both the "why" of this
kind of design and the "how," in well-defined chunks.
* Tackles design of products in the post-Web world where computers
no longer have to be monolithic, expensive general-purpose
devices
* Features broad frameworks and processes, practical advice to help
approach specifics, and techniques for the unique design
challenges
* Presents case studies that describe, in detail, how others have
solved problems, managed trade-offs, and met successes
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