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Design for New Media: Interaction Design for Multimedia and the Web
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by Lon Barfield
Sales Rank: 776747
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List Price: $44.80
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 352 pages
Published by: Addison WesleyEdition: 1st Edition March 15, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0201596091
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0201596090
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.5 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Product Description
This book provides a unified approach to the different skills and media of new media design. The book is divided into four sections; first issues that arise from designing with new and developing technology are discussed, then the role of the building blocks of new media (sound, color, and animation) in design is explained. The third section of the book covers interaction design, and finally the book concludes with the presentation of the process of design in a practical step-by-step way. For Web and multimedia designers who want to learn about interaction design and how new media can be used today.
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This book provides a unified approach to the different skills and media of new media design. The book is divided into four sections; first issues that arise from designing with new and developing technology are discussed, then the role of the building blocks of new media (sound, color, and animation) in design is explained. The third section of the book covers interaction design, and finally the book concludes with the presentation of the process of design in a practical step-by-step way. For Web and multimedia designers who want to learn about interaction design and how new media can be used today.
Reader Reviews
A nice, nontechnical discussion of how to design an interactive system that typically is a website. Barfield goes easy on the jargon. Not your typical acronum-laden computer book. Some issues of usability will be familiar to those harking from the field of industrial design. There, of course, you design and build something tangible; that can be seen, touched, moved, driven or worn. Currently, if you design a web system, it can only be seen or heard. Leaving aside haptic (touch) applications, which are still rare and in their infancy. But note this. Of all the ways that we get sensory input, vision has the highest bandwidth. Which is why the new media design in the book has so much relevance to industrial design. The book has tons of common sense advice. One item is instructive, because if you only know English, you may NEVER even be aware of it. An application should have a consistent tone of voice. In all other European languages, there is a format second person 'you' (eg. 'vous' in French), and an informal 'you' ('tu'). If your application addresses the user, it should use only 1 tone. The closest approximation in an English application might be between a formal, pedagogic style and a chatty use of vernacular. The only quibble I have is with his use of 'spiritual ergonomics', which he defines as 'the design of all aspects of a system with the spiritual parameters of the human mind'. Please! [Eyeball rolling.] The examples he cites are how you might feel when using an application, like enjoyment, humour, fear, prestige. I suggest that given the examples he cites, a better term might be 'emotional ergonomics'. It seems more accurate and does not convey some of the implications, possibly divisive, of 'spiritual'.
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