User friendly : how the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work, and play / Cliff...
User friendly : how the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work, and play / Cliff...
User friendly : how the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work, and play / Cliff Kuang with Robert Fabricant.
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Publisher
New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Call Numbers
G 2020/0205
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
405 pages ; 22 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The empire of user-friendliness -- Part I: Easy to use. Confusion -- Industry -- Error -- Trust -- Metaphor -- Part II: Easy to want. Empathy -- Humanity -- Personalization -- Peril -- Promise -- Seeing the world through user-friendly eyes -- Appendix: A brief history of "user friendly".
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Publisher
New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2019.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
Combining the expertise and insight of a leading journalist and a pioneering designer, Kuang and Fabricant provide a definitive, thoughtful, and practical perspective on a topic that has rapidly gone from arcane to urgent to inescapable.
It is a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Kuang and Fabricant unpack the ways in which the world has been-- and continues to be-- remade according to the principles of the once-obscure discipline of user-experience design. They map the hidden rules of the designed world and sh...
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User friendly : how the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work, and play / Cliff Kuang with Robert Fabricant.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-385) and index.
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G 2020/0205
Record Identifier
74VKawQKaLWd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKawQKaLWd
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ISBN
0374279756
9780374279752 (hbk.)
DDC
658.5
MMS ID
991024285718702626
