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Title: Experience Design 1 by Nathan Shedroff ISBN: 0-7357-1078-3 Publisher: New Riders Publishing Pub. Date: 18 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.44 (16 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: (Novel, High Level) Experience Design (for the Bay Area)
Comment: This book offers a difficult experience, literally. It flops uncomfortably in your hands. Don't try reading this on an airplane or train. Some text disappears into the spine and some is set in white against a grey and white background. Not very friendly. While the linear experience of a book is largely ignored - it's basically a set of narrated web links in book form. All of which wouldn't matter so much, if the author wasn't very consciously trying to "walk the talk" and make the book be an experience, as well as be about designing experiences.
Move past the form, and into the function of the book, and you find a tour de horizon of a fascinating subject. If you are a novice to this area, it will help open your mind to the possibilities of constructing experiential environments, giving you lots of space and examples for the succinct messages to sink-in. If you are not a novice, you'll find a fluff of high level messages without detailed analysis and an over concentration on the visual and the novel, and no recognition of global cultural issues in designing world-wide accessible experiences.
I wanted more from this book, but can see that for some it would a useful place to start their journey.
Rating: 5
Summary: Required reading for creative people
Comment: ...Web designers constantly face the challenge of creating yet another original Web site that sets its own style. Experience Design 1 by Nathan Shedroff approaches the challenge of combining visual design, branding, and information architecture, in a new way -- through the lens of experience design. Because of this approach, the book is valuable for creators everywhere, from visual designers, to writers, to project managers.
Shedroff was the creative director of vivid studios, a Web shop known for its innovative design and brand-building through the nineties. In his work with clients like Nike and Herman Miller, the author learned what big ticket clients really want. Beyond needing a cool site and a memorable brand, they want to provide their customers with an experience.
Shedroff has taken what he learned from those years and distilled it into Experience Design 1. The book is about the experience a design creates, from beginning to end. The author takes familiar concepts like feedback, interactivity, and usability, and illustrates each with an online and offline example. In doing so, Shedroff lets you extract the essence of the user experience from the particular media in which it takes place....
Since reading Experience Design 1, I've found myself returning to it -- not as a reference manual, but as an inspirational tool. In those dreaded moments when the checkerboard pattern of the Photoshop tabula rasa seems to stretch on forever, flipping to a random page and reading about the windows in a French museum or the performers in a circus always seems to replenish my creative juices.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent Intro -- Not just for Web Design
Comment: Experience Design is a good intro book for designers, especially those interested in interactive media, environmental design, and museum installations. I found it a very helpful "dictionary" of experience terminology, philosophy, and examples (off-line examples too!). It's not a very extensive book, but it will get your mind "juiced", thinking in new ways and taking you in new directions. As I kept reading, I kept wishing it dove deeper into the thinking behind user's individual experience and memory. Nathan makes up for this by having an extensive resource section for further reading.
Of special note were the ideas presented in the book on storytelling, the senses, and different cognitive models. Nathan hits you between the eyes with a lot of one-liners too. My favorite that a LOT of designers get wrong: Data is not information. In the end, I've absorbed a lot of the book and plan on "taking it off the shelf" for future projects.
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Title: Pause & Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative by Mark S. Meadows ISBN: 0735711712 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 10 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Information Anxiety 2 by Richard Saul Wurman, David Sume, Loring Leifer ISBN: 0789724103 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 14 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web by Jesse James Garrett ISBN: 0735712026 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 11 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman ISBN: 0465051359 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 23 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Design Research: Methods and Perspectives by Laurel, Brenda Laurel ISBN: 0262122634 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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