From best-selling author Donald A. Norman, the long-awaited sequel to The Design of Everyday Things : a critical look at the new dawn of "smart" technology, from smooth-talking GPS units to cantankerous refrigerators. Donald A. Norman, a popular design consultant to car manufacturers, computer companies, and other industrial and design outfits, has seen the future and is worried. In this long-awaited follow-up to The Design of Everyday Things , he points out what's going wrong with the wave of products just coming on the market and some that are on drawing boards everywhere--from "smart" cars and homes that seek to anticipate a user's every need, to the latest automatic navigational systems. Norman builds on this critique to offer a consumer-oriented theory of natural human-machine interaction that can be put into practice by the engineers and industrial designers of tomorrow's thinking machines. This is a consumer-oriented look at the perils and promise of the smart objects of the future, and a cautionary tale for designers of these objects--many of which are already in use or development.

本书深入浅出介绍了人机交互系统的原理与应用，内容涉及电子原理基础、设备选型、建立集成电路、微处理编程、计算机通信、转换和交互设计、传感控制、设备间通信、声光控制、多媒体输入和输出管理等。本书内容实用，难易知中，图例丰富、理论知识和实际应用结合紧密，适合作为计算机、电子工程及相关工科专业的本科高年级和研究生教材使用。

互動式設計：數位科技改變了現代生活所對應的一切，範疇廣及娛樂乃至工具配備。而對於數位科技商品的設計者而言，他們要創造的標的不再是一個漂亮或實用的有形體，而是一種互動式介面。 在這本書裡，作者比爾‧摩格理吉（Bill Moggridge）不僅帶領讀者近距離接觸40餘位在此領域舉足輕重的設計師，由於作者亦為大獎榮耀加身的知名設計師，曾設計全球首款筆記型電腦（1981年出廠的the GRiD Compass），也是矽谷IDEO設計公司的創始人，透過他的導引，讀者得以更清楚掌握此領域的革新與演進。 尤其書中訪談的對象，包括虛擬實境遊戲（Sims）的發明人威爾‧萊特（Will Wright）、Google的創始人萊立‧佩吉（Larry Page）與佘傑‧兵（Sergey Brin），還有道格‧安傑巴特 （Doug Engelbart）、比爾‧安特金生（Bill Atkinson）以及多位創造並賦予滑鼠及桌上型電腦新生的設計師們，他們的經驗陳述，讓現代科技設計的關鍵發展脈絡清晰地呈現出來。 書中作者與受訪者所探討的問題，包括：為什麼個人電腦會設計一個桌上螢幕？讓Palm的掌上操作功如此成功的秘訣？為什麼Google是網友青睞的搜尋引擎？為什麼在日本有3千萬手機用戶選擇i-mode？此外，作者也分享了自己創作的過程，並以IDEO的成功為例，分析在以人為本的基礎下，人類的需求與渴望如何轉化為全新設計創意，而數位科技的設計模式又是如何發展成型。 除精彩文字敘述，本書並配置了超過700張圖像，以全彩印刷呈現。隨書並附贈一片光碟，摘錄所有訪談內容的精華及互動設計的操作示範。 本書作者摩格理吉所創立的IDEO，不僅是全球最成功的設計公司之一，也是首先將軟體與硬體整合並導入工業設計範疇的企業。他曾應聘為倫敦皇家藝術學院互動設計課程客座教授、在倫敦商業學院授課，也是義大利艾維里（Ivrea）互動設計中心程序委員會的會員之一，目前擔任史丹福大學設計衍生課程（the Joint Program in Design）的諮詢助教（Consulting Associate Professor）。

Digital technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work. Designers of digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a physical object--beautiful or utilitarian--but as designing our interactions with it. In Designing Interactions, award-winning designer Bill Moggridge introduces us to forty influential designers who have shaped our interaction with technology. Moggridge, designer of the first laptop computer (the GRiD Compass, 1981) and a founder of the design firm IDEO, tells us these stories from an industry insider's viewpoint, tracing the evolution of ideas from inspiration to outcome. The innovators he interviews--including Will Wright, creator of The Sims, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, and Doug Engelbart, Bill Atkinson, and others involved in the invention and development of the mouse and the desktop--have been instrumental in making a difference in the design of interactions. Their stories chart the history of entrepreneurial design development for technology. Moggridge and his interviewees discuss such questions as why a personal computer has a window in a desktop, what made Palm's handheld organizers so successful, what turns a game into a hobby, why Google is the search engine of choice, and why 30 million people in Japan choose the i-mode service for their cell phones. And Moggridge tells the story of his own design process and explains the focus on people and prototypes that has been successful at IDEO--how the needs and desires of people can inspire innovative designs and how prototyping methods are evolving for the design of digital technology. Designing Interactions is illustrated with more than 700 images, with color throughout. Accompanying the book is a DVD that contains segments from all the interviews intercut with examples of the interactions under discussion. Interviews with: Bill Atkinson, Durrell Bishop, Brendan Boyle, Dennis Boyle, Paul Bradley, Duane Bray, Sergey Brin, Stu Card, Gillian Crampton Smith, Chris Downs, Tony Dunne, John Ellenby, Doug Englebart, Jane Fulton Suri, Bill Gaver, Bing Gordon, Rob Haitani, Jeff Hawkins, Matt Hunter, Hiroshi Ishii, Bert Keely, David Kelley, Rikako Kojima, Brenda Laurel, David Liddle, Lavrans Løvlie, John Maeda, Paul Mercer, Tim Mott, Joy Mountford, Takeshi Natsuno, Larry Page, Mark Podlaseck, Fiona Raby, Cordell Ratzlaff, Ben Reason, Jun Rekimoto, Steve Rogers, Fran Samalionis, Larry Tesler, Bill Verplank, Terry Winograd, and Will Wright

本书对交互设计的来源和本质作了很好的介绍。书中包含了作者十多年来对交互设计的一些深刻理解，对如何做好交互设计有很强的实践价值。在本书第3～8章中，贯穿了一个能够广泛应用于各种项目的通用设计流程，能够帮助新手设计师按序将所有信息应用于实践。书中还有一些对交互设计领域的开创者和名人的访谈，可以让我们从多个角度对交互设计有一个深刻全面的认识。本书主要涉及数字产品如何工作的知识，不包含任何程序代码，基本与平台无关。 本书的针对对象既包括那些刚刚起步的新手设计师，也包括那些期望改进设计流程或增加设计工具的资深设计师。 “构建与人们进行交互的产品和服务是21世纪的重大挑战。Dan Saffer做了一项了不起的工作，他把凌乱的知识整理成了一本可理解的、有序的、任何想创建新设计的人必备的参考书。” ——Jared Spool，User Interface Engineering的CEO “《Designing for Interaction》是有见识的、智慧的和激动人心的。Dan Saffer 给当今的交互设计挑战提供了实用建议，并且针对未来的交互设计提出了明智见解。” ——Jesse James Garrett，《用户体验要素》的作者