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Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences
What happens when you've built a great website or app, but no one seems to care? How do you get people to stick around long enough to see how your service might be of value? In Seductive Interaction Design, speaker and author Stephen P. Anderson takes a fresh approach to designing sites and interactions based on the stages of seduction. This beautifully designed book exami...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
June 15th 2011
by New Riders Publishing
(first published May 12th 2011)
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This book is very similar to Designing for Emotion by Aarron Walter, but longer, packed full of even more concrete examples, and making a more direct effort to tie each example to universal psychological principles such as our love of pattern recognition and set completion or our need to reciprocate generosity.
Anderson shows how when you interact with a website, it's a lot like interacting with a stranger you've just met for the first time. In both cases, you don't want to ask for too much pers...more
Anderson shows how when you interact with a website, it's a lot like interacting with a stranger you've just met for the first time. In both cases, you don't want to ask for too much pers...more
For me, this is a great partner to Giles Colborne's 'Simple and Usable' as a way of making interfaces that don't make your audience groan at the thought of using your website. I'll confess that I thought it'd be more about the hard-sell, but there's nothing sleazy or dodgy about the methods shown here.
I also liked that it focused on practical steps to finding out what would engage and delight your particular customers, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, or endless proofs of Why without an...more
I also liked that it focused on practical steps to finding out what would engage and delight your particular customers, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, or endless proofs of Why without an...more
I had really high expectations on this book. Not so long ago I read "The Design of Everyday things" and I was hoping that this one was focused on online applications. Actually it is, but I had to say that I felt a bit disappointed as I found some of the examples from the beginning of the book just too silly. However, the book has some really interesting thoughts and it does the purpose the writer intended, which is to inspire, to give ideas and clues of how a website can attract more users and w...more
Very nice book. The way that it is written makes it easy to read and understand. The frequent relations between romantic seduction and interface/design seduction are often quite ingenious.
I particularly enjoyed the last chapter of the book that gives a larger focus to questions surrounding the area of gamification. It is a really direct book most of the times where the author shows that he knows what is really important and what are the questions that he is trying to somewhat answer with is book...more
I particularly enjoyed the last chapter of the book that gives a larger focus to questions surrounding the area of gamification. It is a really direct book most of the times where the author shows that he knows what is really important and what are the questions that he is trying to somewhat answer with is book...more
10 years ago I really was into books about HCI, like the ones from Jakob Nielsen and Albert Badre. This book is a next step into designing useful and involving user experiences.
It is not so much about functional or graphical usability (although it also covers some of these aspects) but more about influencing users and seduce them towards certain behaviour within the site, app etc. Anderson writes in a very accessible way with lots of real life examples and covers subject like the influence of wo...more
It is not so much about functional or graphical usability (although it also covers some of these aspects) but more about influencing users and seduce them towards certain behaviour within the site, app etc. Anderson writes in a very accessible way with lots of real life examples and covers subject like the influence of wo...more
I love Stephen's work and was excited that he finally wrote a book. Part of the reason I love his work is because I share the opinion that, at a high level, can be described as "going with the flow". He looks to leverage the way people think about things and actually do them when he designs a product. I feel like that's the way to be successful in anything, so I think he's spot on. The book itself is chock full of examples and data, which are extra helpful. Good stuff for anyone in product desig...more
A lot of examples and case studies (some of which from now-defunct sites - good UX alone does not save you) - about how to create delighted users. It's not as easy as it seems and it's very easy to backfire - but this book is a must-read for any designers and developers who want to improve their site's user experience.
Great read! This belongs on the shelf with Don't Make me Think and The Design of Everyday Things. It's a quick read but what it communicates is invaluable and will change the way you design. My only issue is with the references being so temporal. In 10 years I don't know if people will know wat MailChimp is (Sorry MailChimp) but the information in the book is timeless.
Especially section 4 is interesting, where you learn some methods how you can gamify your applications. Not merely by adding badges, but by uncovering why your application is fun to use. So there are some good processes for real gamification.
Very useful.
(I'll review the book in a couple days when I get a chance)
Allot of good insight into the psychological aspect of design and user experience.
Some really inspiring ideas in this book. Definitely made me think.
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Stephen P. Anderson is a speaker and consultant based out of Dallas, Texas. He spends unhealthy amounts of time thinking about design, psychology and leading intrapreneurial teams—topics he frequently speaks about at national and international events.
Stephen recently published the Mental Notes card deck, a tool to help businesses use psychology to design better experiences. And, he’s currently wri...more
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