Ecological Interface Design delivers the techniques and examples that provide you with a foundation to succeed in designing advanced display graphics. The opening chapters introduce the "art" of interface design by exposing the analytical methods behind designs, the most common graphical forms, and how these methods and forms are pulled together to create a complete design. The book then incorporates case studies that further emphasize techniques and results. Each example exemplifies a solution to a certain part of the EID puzzle. Some of the examples demonstrate the analysis phase, while others apply more scrutiny to graphical design. Each is unique, allowing allowing you to use them in the development of your own designs. The volume concludes with an analysis that connects ecological interface design with other common interface design methods, enabling you to better understand how to combine approaches in the creation of design solutions.

This book provides a 'how-to' guide for learning Ecological Interface Design. It takes Ecological Interface Design from a fairly complex process and breaks the process down into smaller chunks, providing guidance and tips along the way. The first half of the book focuses on the basics of learning to do EID while the second half focuses on case studies and explores more complex applications of the approach. The first half has three main chapters, the first on Work Domain Analysis, the second on developing visual forms including a visual thesaurus, and the third on using the Work Domain Analysis to develop a design. Each case study is a rich exploration of multiple examples within a particular domain. The case studies show the analysis and the design for the examples, and then discuss the particular challenges of the domain and how they were handled in the various examples. The domains covered are Transportation Systems, Process Control Systems, Medical Systems, Telecommunication Systems, and Social Systems. Finally the book concludes with a discussion of how EID fits in with other methods currently complementary aspects of EID and other methods.; Burns; Catherine University of Waterl