Design for Interaction: User-Friendly Graphics

by Lisa Baggerman

Are your client's customers demanding more? Today's consumers demand more than good-looking design. They want and need designs that work for them, and help them achieve their goals. With technology emphasizing interactivity, good design must relate to its audience. Design for User-Friendly Graphics de-mystifies the elements of good interface design through in-depth looks at 18 different designers who have successfully made the connection between design and customer. From these case studies you'll
--The five golden rules of interface design
--How to meet the demands of speed-demon Web surfers
--How to generate return visits with a truly different Web interface
--The secret to making corporate annual reports lively
--How book design can mirror its readers
--Product design that combines form and function
--How successful environmental design can turn crowds into consumers

Genres: Design

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good read for a ground-up thinking method: considering the user first. Based on case studies for web, print, product and environment. I particularly enjoyed the case studies on Hammermill Paper's tradeshow exhibit, Sagmeister Inc.'s CD cases and Volkswagon's Turbonite website. The book is bit dated, which explains why I found it so cheap at a sidewalk sale. For example, the computer graphics are not up to current standards, the cell phone example is a high-tech brick, the Turbonite commercials and website are several years old and CDs are less in fashion now.

[Lisa Hazen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had to.