The design of everyday things

Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious—even liberating—book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. The problems range from ambiguous and hidden controls to arbi…

Inquiry by design : environment/behavior/neuroscience in architecture, interi…

This update of a classic text folds the new field of neuroscience for design into well-established environment-behavior (E-B) methods and approaches. Illustrated evidence-based building and open space case studies demonstrate E-B’s continuing design impact. Fundamental theory and practical research methods are presented for planning, programming, designing, and evaluating the effects of physi…

Environmental psychology for design. Third Edition

Edition

Third Edition

ISBN/ISSN

9781501321801

Collation

317 p. ; 26 cm.

Series Title

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Call Number

745.201 Kop e

How designers think : the design process demystified. Fourth Edition

The author, a designer and psychologist, shows that the design process involves a variety of different thinking modes. He argues that design skills can be acquired, practised and improved in the same manner as learning a musical instrument.

100 things every designer needs to know about people

Provides information and examples to help designers create products, applications, Web sites, and print materials that match the way people think and feel.

Design is storytelling

A playbook for creative thinking, created for contemporary students and practitioners working across the fields of graphic design, product design, service design and user experience. Design is Storytelling is a guide to thinking and making created for contemporary students and practitioners working across the fields of graphic design, product design, service design, and user experience. By grou…

Actionable gamification : beyond points, badges, and leaderboards

The new era of Gamification and Human-Focused Design optimizes for motivation and engagement over traditional Function-Focused Design. Within the industry, studies on game mechanics and behavioral psychology have become proliferate. However, few people understand how to merge the two fields into experience designs that reliably increases business metrics and generates a return on investment. Ga…