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Designing Interactions

Author
Bill Moggridge
Year
2006
A hand-drawn diagram of overlapping circles connecting icon sketches — a person, a tool, a shirt, a book, a car.
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Bill Moggridge gathers forty designers who shaped interaction design and tells the story of his own design process at IDEO, showing how close attention to people's needs and desires, tested through prototypes, produces better designed technology. In the Symbiotic Design Framework it offers a field-defining oral history of the Procedures component.
Moggridge, who helped name interaction design, gathers forty of its shapers to trace how we came to live with digital things, from games to work tools. A field-defining oral history of the SDF's Procedures component — the methods and craft by which interaction is actually made. The book introduces readers to forty influential designers who have shaped how people interact with technology. Moggridge, a co-founder of IDEO, tells the story of his own design process and explains the focus on people and prototypes that shaped IDEO's practice, showing how attention to the needs and desires of real people can inspire innovative designs. It is illustrated with more than 700 images.

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  • Procedures Component
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