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Analog In, Digital Out: Brendan Dawes on Interaction Design (VOICES)
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Analog In, Digital Out: Brendan Dawes on Interaction Design (VOICES) |
Author: Brendan Dawes
Published: 2006-09-16 |
List price: $39.99
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Loved the book!
Very interesting short read that is more about the art than the content. It made me think more about the interface and gave me a new perspective and approach to web design. Also, reading about Brendan Dawes was very interesting, especially since I've been a fan of his company for so long.
 Brendan Dawes Superstar
Brendan Dawes is one of my top inspirational people. This book gives great insight into how he thinks about the world around him and how he relates that back to his work. It comes complete with some great code snippets, all very simple to read, but the outcome is impressive.
New ways of seeing
I read this booking thinking I might find concrete methodologies for physical computing. It is maybe not so in-depth describing various projects made by the author over the years, many consisting predominantly of innovative (at the time) coding. Most helpful, were the pervasive philosophical inflections encouraging exploratory and experimental approaches, slightly anarchic motivations and quirky little inventions. Due to its heavily visual communication, i.e. lots of full-page pictures, the textual content is actually fairly slim. I wish it were not over so quickly.
Excellent source of stimulation for creativity
I just pulled this book back off the shelf last night and spent an hour or so flipping through it and re-reading bits and pieces. I've got to say, it gave me the same burst of creative inspiration as the first time I picked it up at the bookstore.
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br /I'm not an artist by trade, but this book makes me feel like I can take my technical skills and make something beautiful with them.
Unique book about always thinking about what is around you
This book is not some academic treatise on user interaction design. Instead, it is a very short book that can be read in one sitting about constantly surveying the world around you and considering how people interact with their environment, what seems natural, what seems fun, and always taking time to wonder why something is the way that it is or just why it exists in the first place. There are about equal parts illustrations and text in this book, and it is a fun read.
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br /The author has plenty of anecdotes from his own daily life, such as how he read a children's book while on vacation entitled "The Phantom Tollbooth" in which an entire town becomes invisible to the people that live there because they are so engrossed in getting as quickly as possible from A to B, that everything in between has simply disappeared. The lesson is that you should always be looking at your surroundings as though they are completely new and asking "why?". The author also talks about interesting projects such as a demonstration system he built that calculated the area of a piece of play-doh and changed the speed of a movie that was playing based on that number. These anecdotes and projects are not particularly useful in isolation, but taken together the book gives you a new perspective on the world around you, showing you how you can build an interface out of almost anything and how to make that interface inviting and interesting to the user. If the author wrote any code to do a particular task, he usually includes it, although it is highly unlikely you would want to copy his individual projects. He also includes "Helpful Sites" in most chapters that talk about certain pieces of software or hardware that he might have used. Overall, this book is a useful exercise in expanding your imagination and creativity, and I highly recommend it.
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