{"product_id":"sketching-user-experiences-the-workbook-paperback-9780123819598","title":"Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook (Paperback \/ softback) 9780123819598","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSketching User Experiences: The Workbook\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis how-to illustrated workbook provides all the tools designers need to get the right design every time!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSaul Greenberg (Author), Sheelagh Carpendale (Author), Nicolai Marquardt (Author), Bill Buxton (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780123819598\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 13 December 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e27.6 x 21.5 x 1.8 cm, 0.77 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In Sketching User Experiences, Buxton gave a compelling argument as to WHY sketching is so important to design. In this excellently-designed companion, he and his co-authors show HOW.  I have been haranguing students for years with the message that they should be doing a lot of sketching, and this is the first guide I can really use to show them what it means and how it works.\" --\u003cb\u003eTerry Winograd, Professor at Stanford University and founding faculty member of its 'D.School' and author of Bringing Design to Software\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"As an interaction designer who teaches, I’ve waited a while for a book like this! Sketching User Experiences – The Workbook is a design-by-doing guide for practitioners and students on how to integrate design practice, techniques and thinking into the practices of human-computer interaction and interaction design. As the companion piece to Bill Buxton’s Sketching User Experience, this book is a one-two combination for learning and doing design in a world of interaction.\" --\u003cb\u003eRon Wakkary, Associate Professor at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University and Co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM interactions magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Don’t be put off by the title. This is a book for non-artists, albeit those developing user interfaces who recognise how much visual communication helps clients and colleagues understand design concepts. If, as a non-artist, you already produce ‘visuals’ you probably use software with a library of images and preformed shapes…This is a very positive book for the non-artist. It is profusely and relevantly illustrated and has a 50:50 balance between print and illustrations, which makes it very easy to dip into for ideas. The layout of the 250 pages is a demonstration of how uncluttered layout combined with simple design produces a highly effective teaching tool. To reinforce the point, there is also a detailed index.\" --\u003cb\u003eBCS.org\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eBased on the authors' experience that sketching is an essential part of design, this excellent workbook is aimed at getting either students or professionals into the practice. Each chapter begins with a list of the necessary materials and ends with a \"You Now Know\" section, as well as occasional exercises. Tips on how to handle things that may arise during sketching are provided and the book is illustrated with color photographs and hand drawn-illustrations.\" --\u003cb\u003eReference and Research Book News, October 2012\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSketching Working Experience: The Workbook provides information about the step-by-step process of the different sketching techniques. It offers methods called design thinking, as a way to think as a user, and sketching, a way to think as a designer. User-experience designers are designers who sketch based on their actions, interactions, and experiences.  The book discusses the differences between the normal ways to sketch and sketching used by user-experience designers. It also describes some motivation on why a person should sketch and introduces the sketchbook. The book reviews the different sketching methods and the modules that contain a particular sketching method. It also explains how the sketching methods are used.   Readers who are interested in learning, understanding, practicing, and teaching experience design, information design, interface design, and information architecture will find this book relevant.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 GETTING INTO THE MOOD\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 SAMPLING THE REAL WORLD\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 THE SINGLE IMAGE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 SNAPSHOTS OF TIME: THE VISUAL NARRATIVE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 ANIMATING THE USER EXPERIENCE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 INVOLVING OTHERS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Human-computer interaction [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Human-computer interaction\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Human-computer%20interaction%20%5BUYZ%5D%22\"\u003eUYZ\u003c\/a\u003e], Technical design [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Technical design\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Technical%20design%20%5BTBD%5D%22\"\u003eTBD\u003c\/a\u003e], Research \u0026amp; development management [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Research \u0026amp; development management\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Research%20\u0026amp;%20development%20management%20%5BKJMV6%5D%22\"\u003eKJMV6\u003c\/a\u003e], Product design [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Product design\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Product%20design%20%5BAKP%5D%22\"\u003eAKP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Freshly Printed Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46648116019480,"sku":"9780123819598","price":13.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780123819598_1334aa04-1943-4add-8321-59e78681be2e.jpg?v=1695014016","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sketching-user-experiences-the-workbook-paperback-9780123819598","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}