Full name: Microinteractions: Designing with Details

Author: Dan Saffer Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Design, Non Fiction, Business Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781449342685 9781491945926 144934268X 1491945923

It's the little things that turn a good digital product into a great one. With this practical book, you'll learn how to design effective microinteractions: the small details that exist inside and around features. How can users change a setting? How do they turn on mute, or know they have a new email message? Through vivid, real-world examples from today's devices and applications, author Dan Saffer walks you through a microinteraction's essential parts, then shows you how to use them in a mobile app, a web widget, and an appliance. You'll quickly discover how microinteractions can change a product from one that's tolerated into one that's treasured. Explore a microinteraction's structure: triggers, rules, feedback, modes, and loops Learn the types of triggers that initiate a microinteraction Create simple rules that define how your microinteraction can be used Help users understand the rules with feedback, using graphics, sounds, and vibrations Use modes to let users set preferences or modify a microinteraction Extend a microinteraction's life with loops, such as "Get data every 30 seconds" Similar books: The Inmates Are Running the Asylum by Alan Cooper 101 Design Methods by Vijay Kumar Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few Designing for Interaction by Dan Saffer Work for Money, Design for Love by David Airey Creative Confidence by Tom Kelley How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer by Debbie Millman How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy Interviewing Users by Steve Portigal Visualize This by Nathan Yau Mental Models by Indi Young Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman Web Form Design by Luke Wroblewski Information Architecture by Christina Wodtke Communicating Design by Dan Brown Tapworthy by Josh Clark Prioritizing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen Designing for the Social Web by Joshua Porter