Press On: Principles of Interaction Programming(Hardcover)

Description

Interactive systems and devices, from mobile phones to office copiers, do not fulfill their potential for a wide variety of reasons--not all of them technical. Press On shows that we can design better interactive systems and devices if we draw on sound computer science principles. It uses state machines and graph theory as a powerful and insightful way to analyze and design better interfaces and examines specific designs and creative solutions to design problems. Programmers--who have the technical knowledge that designers and users often lack--can be more creative and more central to interaction design than we might think. Sound programming concepts improve device design.

Press On provides the insights, concepts and programming tools to improve usability. Knowing the computer science is fundamental, but Press On also shows how essential it is to have the right approaches to manage the design of systems that people use. Particularly for complex systems, the social, psychological and ethical concerns--the wider design issues--are crucial, and these are covered in depth.

Press On highlights key principles throughout the text and provides cross-topic linkages between chapters and suggestions for further reading. Additional material, including all the program code used in the book, is available on an interactive web site. Press On is an essential textbook and reference for computer science students, programmers, and anyone interested in the design of interactive technologies.

描述

互動系統和設備，從手機到辦公室複印機，由於各種原因並未充分發揮其潛力，其中並非全部是技術原因。《Press On》顯示，如果我們運用堅實的計算機科學原則，我們可以設計出更好的互動系統和設備。它使用狀態機和圖論作為一種強大而深入的分析和設計更好界面的方式，並檢視了特定的設計和創造性解決設計問題的方法。程序員 - 他們擁有設計師和用戶通常缺乏的技術知識 - 可以比我們想像的更有創造力並且在互動設計中更加核心。堅實的編程概念可以改善設備設計。

《Press On》提供了改善可用性的見解、概念和編程工具。了解計算機科學是基礎，但《Press On》還展示了管理人們使用的系統設計的正確方法是多麼重要。對於複雜系統，社會、心理和倫理問題 - 更廣泛的設計問題 - 至關重要，並且在書中深入探討了這些問題。

《Press On》在整個文本中突出了關鍵原則，並提供了章節之間的跨主題連結和進一步閱讀的建議。書中使用的所有程式代碼等額外材料都可以在互動網站上獲得。《Press On》是計算機科學學生、程序員和對互動技術設計感興趣的任何人的必備教科書和參考書。