About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design

The essential interaction design guide, fully revised and up to date for the mobile age

About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Fourth Edition is the recent update to the book that shaped and evolved the landscape of interaction design. This comprehensive guide takes the around the world shift to smartphones and tablets into account. New information includes discussions on mobile apps, touch interfaces, screen size considerations, and more. The new full-color interior and unique layout better illustrate brand new design concepts.

The interaction design profession is blooming with the success of design-intensive companies, priming customers to expect “design” as a critical ingredient of marketplace success. Consumers have little tolerance for websites, apps, and devices that do not live up to their expectations, and the responding shift in business philosophy has transform widespread. About Face is the book that brought interaction design out of the research labs and into the on a regular basis lexicon, and the up to date Fourth Edition continues to paved the way with ideas and methods relevant to nowadays’s design practitioners and developers.

Updated information includes:

• Contemporary interface, interaction, and product design methods
• Design for mobile platforms and consumer electronics
• State-of-the-art interface recommendations and up-to-date examples
• Updated Goal-Directed Design methodology

Designers and developers having a look to remain relevant through the current shift in consumer technology habits will find About Face to be a comprehensive, essential resource.