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Description of Designing for the Digital Age

Whether you′re designing consumer electronics, medical devices, enterprise Web apps, or new ways to check out at the supermarket, today′s digitally–enabled products and services provide both great opportunities to deliver compelling user experiences and great risks of driving your customers crazy with complicated, confusing technology.

Designing successful products and services in the digital age requires a team with expertise in interaction design, visual design, industrial design, and other disciplines. It also takes the ability to come up with the big ideas that make a desirable product or service, as well as the skill and perseverance to execute on the thousand small ideas that get your design into the hands of users. It requires expertise in project management, user research, and consensus–building. This comprehensive volume addresses all of these and more.

Kim′s book is nothing less than a complete handbook for an entire profession. Kim′s unique background in the practice, pedagogy, and epistemology of the design business has given her the experience needed to write the ultimate ′how–to′ book. Every step in this fascinating and multi–faceted discipline is described in detail in simple, readable prose, richly illustrated with examples taken from real products, real clients, and real design problems. This book is comprehensive in its scope, exhaustive in its depth, authoritative in its practice, and priceless in its wisdom. I′ve no doubt that this will become the most dog–eared, annotated and worn–from–many–readings volume in your library."

Alan Cooper

Bestselling author of The Inmates Are Running the Asylum and

About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design

Kim is one of the brightest minds in the world of user experience design.

Her work on Goal–Directed Design and persona development has set

a standard."

Jared Spool

CEO & Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering

Title Information

ISBN:

9780470229101

Pages:

768 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

312257

Publisher:

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Published:

13/03/2009

Edition:

annotated edition

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About Kim Goodwin

Kim Goodwin is VP Design and General Manager at Cooper, where she leads both an integrated practice of interaction, visual, and industrial designers and the development of the acclaimed Cooper U design curriculum. Kim knows the design world from multiple angles; she started as an in–house and freelance designer and spent several years as an in–house creative director before joining Cooper 11 years ago. Kim has led projects involving a tremendous range of design problems, including Web sites, complex analytical and enterprise applications, phones, medical devices, services, and even organizations. Her clients and employers have included everything from one–man startups to the world’s largest companies, as well as universities and government agencies. This range of experience and a passion for teaching have led to Kim’s popularity as an author and as a speaker at conferences and companies around the world.