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  <title><![CDATA[About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design]]></title>
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  <default_description>&quot;The following description is for the second edition of &lt;i&gt;About Face&lt;/i&gt;. The 3rd Edtion, &lt;i&gt;About Face 3&lt;/i&gt; (ISBN 0470084111), is now available.&quot;  &lt;p&gt; First published seven years ago-just before the World Wide Web exploded into dominance in the software world-About Face rapidly became a bestseller. While the ideas and principles in the original book remain as relevant as ever, the examples in About Face 2.0 are updated to reflect the evolution of the Web.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Interaction Design professionals are constantly seeking to ensure that software and software-enabled products are developed with the end-user's goals in mind, that is, to make them more powerful and enjoyable for people who use them. About Face 2.0 ensures that these objectives are met with the utmost ease and efficiency.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Alan Cooper (Palo Alto, CA) has spent a decade making high-tech products easier to use and less expensive to build-a practice known as &quot;Interaction Design.&quot; Cooper is now the leader in this growing field. Mr. Cooper is also the author of two bestselling books that are widely considered indispensable texts. About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design, intro-duced the first comprehensive set of practical design principles. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum explains how talented people and companies continually create aggravating high-tech products that fail to meet customer expectations.  &lt;p&gt; Robert Reimann has spent the past 15 years pushing the boundaries of digital products as a designer, writer, lecturer, and consultant. He has led dozens of interaction design projects in domains including e-commerce, portals, desktop productivity, authoring environments, medical and scientific instrumentation, wireless, and handheld devices for startups and Fortune 500 clients alike. Joining Cooper in 1996, Reimann led the development and refinement of many goal-directed design methods described in About Face 2.0. He has lectured on these methods at major universities and to international industry audiences. He is a member of the advisory board of the UC Berkeley Institute of Design.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd only read small pieces of this book, but I stumbled upon it when someone mentioned a widget they thought I might find useful from it. I started browsing it and was instantly pulled in. It is all the stuff I'd learned over the years, but explained more rigorously and completely -- an inspiring re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/87755">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt like this was two books -- the first part blew my mind (5 stars), the second part I struggled through over many months (3 stars). So I'll balance out at 4 stars. The second part was really dry, and far far more focused on desktop software than originally promised -- I'm hoping that 3.0 applie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21974952">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fantastic introduction to the Cooper method of user experience design. He's obsessive and exhaustive, and the book is well written and engaging. My only complaint is that his hatred for software engineers rings loud and clear, which makes it hard to recommend to recalcitrant engineering te...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/146563">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good book on the essentials of software interaction design. Doesn't really cover web usability/interaction design, focused on desktop software (although the principles are similiar.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 12 15:01:22 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Is very dry at times, but has tons of excellent information. Highly recommended for web or software designers.]]></body>
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