Interaction for Designers ― How to Make Things People Love

Interaction for Designers shows you how connect a product with its users, whether it’s a simple toaster, a complex ecosystem of intelligent devices, or a single app on your smart phone. This book covers the entire design process so you can start with an idea and carry it through to an engaging final design. It carefully leads you step by step and richly illustrates each stage with examples drawn from business communication, social media and the social economy, consumer electronics, architecture and environments, health care, psychology, art and culture, education, athletics, automotive design, entertainment, fashion, the family home, and a wealth of others. You’ll learn how to brainstorm ideas, research them, explore them, evolve them into finished designs, pitch them, all with the goal to help you make things that people love. Includes 300 color images, a glossary, and links to web resources highlighting design concepts and designer interviews.

Brian Boyl is a professor at Art Center College of Design, and Director of the Visual Interaction Area of Emphasis in the Department of Graphic Design. He has taught and built programs in the digital arts at both the graduate and undergraduate levels for over twenty-five years including at UCLA, USC, Loyola Marymount, and the past twenty years at Art Center. He holds a BS in Physics from Reed College, and an MFA in Film and Digital Media from UCLA.