Im reading the book sketching user experiences by bill buxton. Bill is related to stacey anne lovan and jenelle w buxton as well as 1 additional person. Bill is a great speaker and each talk he gives is different, based on where the talk is, usually covering just a little piece of his experience, and usually only covering content from just a few of the chapters in his book, sketching user experiences. It offers methods called design thinking, as a way to think as a user, and sketching, a way to think as a designer. Bill buxton believes that design leadership together with technical leadership drives innovation. Through his thoughtprovoking personal examples he is inspiring others to better understand the role of design in. His book was really inspiring and it definitely influenced my lectures on visualisation in the master course ue. Magic cap was a pretty interesting operating system that was used on a family of pda devices, beginning with the sony magic link ic, launched in 1994. Bill buxton brings design leadership and creativity to microsoft. It came out of a company called general magic, started by bill atkinson, andy herzfeld, and marc porat, and spun out of apple. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Superficial handwaving as bill buxton himself describes it, the first half of the book just sprawls with concepts that are way abstract to grasp or apply.
Buxtons secondhalf gains werent revolutionary, but he hit the ball harder 25. The workbook provides information about the stepbystep process of the different sketching techniques. Im about halfway through bill buxtons sketching user experiences and, even though this book definitely is a tome if not in size, then definitely in weight the paper quality is very high the book must weigh in at 510 lbs, its a fantastic read. First off, this book is about a lot more than sketching. Getting the design right and the right design interactive technologies 9780123740373 by buxton, bill and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices. The examples are extremely relevant starts off slowly, but it does pick up. Sketching user experiences is a rambling stream of consciousness through bill buxtons headspanning a treatise on the role of design in business, a history lesson on sketching, and an analysis of specific. Great book with a lot of good insights into how to design and develop software products.
Sketching, prototyping, and design are essential parts of the process we use to create new products. The dramatic tale of how india was mapped and everest was named, keay, 2000. Sketching user experiences by bill buxton this is a great book, for anyone involved with innovation, product management, communication of new ideas or product development. Sketching user experiences approaches design and design thinking as something distinct that needs to be better understoodby both designers and the people with whom they need to work in order to achieve success with new products and systems. Trained as a musician, bill buxton began using computers over thirty years ago in his art. Exploring interactive curve and surface manipulation using a bend and twist sensitive input strip duration. He pioneered multitouch interfaces and music composition tools in the late 1970s, while working in the dynamic graphics project at the university of toronto. In fact, buxton doesnt even get to actually talking about this at. To learn more about the trip and the construction of the canoe, click on the picture above. Bill buxton and i share a common belief that design leadership together with technical leadership drives innovation.
This book focuses mainly on sketching in the context of digital ux but buxtons taxonomy regarding the characteristics of a good sketch applies to all kinds of design. In 2007 buxton published sketching user experiences, a book critical to anyone in the design or engineering professions because it gets to the fundamentals of the design process. The experience is about how we get there, not the landing place. Buxtons scientific contributions include applying fitts law to humancomputer interaction and the invention and analysis of the marking menu together with gordon kurtenbach. Getting the design right and the right design interactive technologies author of the book. Books by bill buxton download epub pdf sketching user. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading sketching user experiences. Through his thoughtprovoking personal examples he is inspiring others to better understand the role of design.
Mona awad, author of ways of looking at a fat girl and bunny everything youre hearing about kira jane buxtons hollow kingdomthat its wildly original and inventive, funny and profaneis wonderfully true. A dazzling, wholly original debut, revealing the great paradox of humanitys fatal flaws and resilient spirit. Hence, the book speaks to designers, usability specialists, the hci community, product. A couple of weeks ago, bill buxton gave a nice talk at princeton university, and a bunch of us from infragistics attended. Bill was speaking in regards to the importance of finding ways to represent time in our designs, not just the. In 2016, he was recognized for his lifelong work in human computer interaction design and received the digifest digital pioneer award. Select this result to view bill buxtons phone number, address, and more. In sketching user experiences, bill buxton clarifies the processes and skills of design from sketching to experience modeling, in a lively and informative style that is rich with stories and full of his own heart and enthusiasm. Sketching user experiences is bill buxtons new book arguing that the process of sketching is distinct from prototyping, and an integral part of design. Starting with the designfunnel and a recommendation of his previous book, bill buxtons explains thoroughly the usage of sketchbooks and required drawing skills in the field of interaction design.
There are very few resources available that see across and through all of the disciplines involved in developing great experiences. Bill buxtons sketching user experiences coder chronicles. One of the great things about bill is the way he shares his enthusiasm for design and technology with other people, said rick rashid, senior vice. Sketching user experiences offers a thoughtprovoking view on design thinking, let alone sketching and ideation. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read sketching user experiences. As of 2010, the bill buxton award is handed out annually for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of hci, completed at a canadian university.
A changing perspecitve on design at the joint usabilitynj phillychi meeting on april 21, 2009. Ron wakkary, associate professor at the school of interactive arts and technology, simon fraser university and coeditorinchief of acm interactions magazine dont be put off by the. But then, britain was not the only empire in the region. Bill moggridge, cofounder of ideo and author of designing interactions i love this book. Bill has a fundamental understanding of the design process and how that will in the end help to get you good products id go as far as to say that the only factor in getting to a good or great product consistently is whether youve followed the design.
As the companion piece to bill buxtons sketching user experience, this book is a onetwo combination for learning and doing design in a world of interaction. Read these 5 books to get 2020 off to a good start gates is out with his usual endofyear book picks, and theyre especially intriguing this year. Sketching user experiences approaches design and design thinking as something distinct that needs to be better understood. The long nose of innovation 1 the bulk of innovation is lowamplitude and takes place over a long period.
This quote is from bill buxtons presentation from the materialistic to the experiential. Getting the design right and the right design interactive technologies english edition ebook. So while the focus is on design, the approach is holistic. This early experience, both in the studio and on stage, helped develop a deep appreciation of both the positive and negative aspects of technology and its impact. This is complex stuff and buxtons work is both informed and insightful. Getting the design right and the right design ebook written by bill buxton. Some of the techniques apply directly to the types of problems service designers face but even when it drifts further afield the book is a lot of fun. The workbook kindle edition by greenberg, saul, carpendale, sheelagh, marquardt, nicolai, buxton, bill. The five books on my endofyear list will help you start 2020 on a good note. Essential and desirable skills for a ux designer uxmatters. Bill buxton phone, address, background info whitepages. As michael wards wonderful recent book points out, everest was marked on maps by jesuit trained. The authors attention to the presentation of examples make for an engaging book, and he covers some interesting ground.
Hollow kingdom by kira jane buxton, hardcover barnes. In fact, the more of buxtons writing that we absorb the clearer it becomes that hes processing the world at a much more sophisticated and forwardthinking level. In the late summer of 2010, three friends and i realized a plan that was 3 years in the making. Bills book once again instilled me with passion and with confidence that we are going in the right direction. Userexperience designers are designers who sketch based on their actions, interactions, and experiences. Bill buxtons book describes, with excellent examples, the range of designers activitiesboth functional and aestheticand the value to a company of their particular skill. Sketching user experiences approaches design and design thinking as something distinct that needs to be better understoodby both designers and the people. Companies should focus on refining existing technologies as much as on creation by bill buxton in october of 2004, chris anderson wrote an article in wired magazine called the long tail, a theory he.