Experience Design
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With Experience Design, Nathan Shedroff has designed and written a book for those in the digital and related design professions, especially those creating online and interactive media who are looking for core inspiration and meaning in their work. This is a book directly at the intersection of today’s design disciplines – interaction design, information design, visual design, and more. Shedroff provides not only a way of designing online experience, but also, and mo… More >>
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J. Sterling Hutto said :
March 12, 2010 at 12:47 am
Experience Design 1 is a fantastic portal to lead us deeper into the future of our modern world. Those who choose to enter our maturing technical planet should get this book. Keep Experience Design 1 on your desk, put it in your lobby, and give it to your business partners and your friends. Experience Design 1 is a tool to empower your mind.
Important issues in this book: Information, Knowledge, Wisdom, Cognitive Models, Multiplicity, Subjectivity, Navigation, Visualization, Consistency, Metaphors, and many more important points for our horizon.
Important Websites: Too many to list. The sites displayed are intertwined throughout the issues discussed and provide new and powerful information for the creation, operation, and evolution of your website. The creator of your website must have this book.
Overall, this book is beautiful and every page is a wonderful experience. Enjoy.
Rating: 5 / 5
christopher l wood said :
March 12, 2010 at 1:59 am
despite the fact that nathan shedroff is very capable of producing very engaging experiences on and offline, this is not one of them. all the topics are there, but how in the world could one be expected to be able to read through this book and gain insight into the process of developing the works shown within the pages? if you are interested in impressing your friends by making them think you follow the scattered flow of this visually impressive book then by all means, go right ahead. i might have a used one you can buy.
Rating: 3 / 5
Adam Levine said :
March 12, 2010 at 2:47 am
This book has wonderful tidbits of information scattered throughout. It definitely made it more enjoyable to read knowing that you do not have an idea of what the next experience is going to be. Every spread is a different taste, a different look and a different feel.
The typography is also dispersed randomly throughout the spreads. This is where the book falls short. The content is well thought out whereas the actual design of the book was not. There is no reason for the type to be layed out as poorly as it is. No grid or methodology was established to help the book flow smoothly. Instead, the layout of this book causes a slightly difficult experience in a typograpghic sense. Some pages were skipped over due to illegibility. On a brighter note, the lower credits on the bottom of the pages gave a solid piece of reference which I used a lot. It kept me sitting by the computer during the whole read of this book.
Overall, I would recommend this book to any designer or to anyone in any profession not even closely related to design for that matter. The content in this book helps people see the details in everything around us…Again, highly recommended and quick to cruise through with great URL’s.
Rating: 4 / 5
Adam Levine said :
March 12, 2010 at 5:17 am
This book has wonderful tidbits of information scattered throughout. It definitely made it more enjoyable to read knowing that you do not have an idea of what the next experience is going to be. Every spread is a different taste, a different look and a different feel.
The typography is also dispersed randomly throughout the spreads. This is where the book falls short. The content is well thought out whereas the actual design of the book was not. There is no reason for the type to be layed out as poorly as it is. No grid or methodology was established to help the book flow smoothly. Instead, the layout of this book causes a slightly difficult experience in a typograpghic sense. Some pages were skipped over due to illegibility. On a brighter note, the lower credits on the bottom of the pages gave a solid piece of reference which I used a lot. It kept me sitting by the computer during the whole read of this book.
Overall, I would recommend this book to any designer or to anyone in any profession not even closely related to design for that matter. The content in this book helps people see the details in everything around us…Again, highly recommended and quick to cruise through with great URL’s.
Rating: 4 / 5
Chen Sun said :
March 12, 2010 at 7:31 am
This is the best web introductory “design” book I’ve seen, and I read many web design books, and am generally quite critical on my reviews.
I’m a web development specialist with good technology and business background. I’m also one of the “blind” people in the world–see everything, but have very little appreciation for it.
The book’s large pictures do what the author is aiming for–it forces the reader to reflect on what the pictures is trying to say–emotionally–thus the title “experiencing design”. The author then explains the picture’s “design concept” and applies this concept for the web. Note that he is explaining the entire design concept, not just “drawing artistic” design–he explains interactivity, visual content management, message. Thus, this book is much more than just a web artistry book.
Based on what I’ve seen of the web, very few designers really understand the concepts the author explains. I’ve never read a book with quite an unusual format as this. Perhaps that’s because I haven’t read many art design books. From my limited art design background, I’d say this book carries some degree of genius in introducing web designs.
For me, this book was slow reading, because I had to really think through what the author was trying to say. It’s a book filled with lots of pretty pictures, but it takes some time to understand what the author is saying.
Rating: 5 / 5