No matter what type of web site or application you’re building, social interaction among the people who use it will be key to its success. They will talk about it, invite their friends, complain, sing its high praises, and dissect it in countless ways. With the right design strategy you can use this social interaction to get people signing up, coming back regularly, and bringing others into the fold. With tons of examples from real-world interfaces and a touch of the underlying social psychology theory, Joshua Porter shows you how to design your next great social web application. Inside, you’ll discover: • The real reasons why people participate online and the psychology behind them • The Usage Lifecycle—or how people use your web application over time • How to get people past that trickiest of hurdles: sign-up • What to do when you’ve launched a web application and nobody is using it • How to analyze the effectiveness of your application screens and flows • How to grow your social web application from zero users to 1000—and beyond Designing for the social web is about much more than adding features. It’s about embracing the social interaction of the people who make you successful—and then designing smartly to encourage it.

现在全新的交互模式正在涌来，人们可以通过简短而又富有表现力的手势动作进行交互，例如通过扫过、轻敲或摇晃，以及一些最基本的可辨识动作，来完成便捷的行为，完全突破了键盘、鼠标和显示器的局限。本书为您展示了如何运用新的交互模式进行创新情境设计的全套方法和流程，内容紧贴设计、教育和科技的最前沿，探讨用户行为、创新设计、数据分析等，呈现了欧美先进的设计和研究思路，为国内教育界和企业界的从业者提供了指导和工作样本。 本书适合高校设计类教师、本科生、硕士生和博士生参考阅读，也适合企业设计和研究部门主管和职员借鉴学习。

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）。

业务目标的实现，依赖于用户能够找到并使用您提供的服务。本书为您讲述创建有效导航系统的基本设计原则、开发技巧和实用建议，并附有大量的真实案例。本书研究深入，援引广泛，是极佳的参考资料和教学指南，适用于初级和中级网页设计师、产品经理和其他非设计职位，以及寻求全新视角的Web开发老手。

First published seven years ago-just before the World Wide Web exploded into dominance in the software world-About Face rapidly became a bestseller. While the ideas and principles in the original book remain as relevant as ever, the examples in About Face 2.0 are updated to reflect the evolution of the Web. Interaction Design professionals are constantly seeking to ensure that software and software-enabled products are developed with the end-user's goals in mind, that is, to make them more powerful and enjoyable for people who use them. About Face 2.0 ensures that these objectives are met with the utmost ease and efficiency. Alan Cooper (Palo Alto, CA) has spent a decade making high-tech products easier to use and less expensive to build-a practice known as "Interaction Design." Cooper is now the leader in this growing field. Mr. Cooper is also the author of two bestselling books that are widely considered indispensable texts. About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design, intro-duced the first comprehensive set of practical design principles. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum explains how talented people and companies continually create aggravating high-tech products that fail to meet customer expectations. Robert Reimann has spent the past 15 years pushing the boundaries of digital products as a designer, writer, lecturer, and consultant. He has led dozens of interaction design projects in domains including e-commerce, portals, desktop productivity, authoring environments, medical and scientific instrumentation, wireless, and handheld devices for startups and Fortune 500 clients alike. Joining Cooper in 1996, Reimann led the development and refinement of many goal-directed design methods described in About Face 2.0. He has lectured on these methods at major universities and to international industry audiences. He is a member of the advisory board of the UC Berkeley Institute of Design.

Processing最初是面向艺术家和设计师开发的程序。由Casey Reas和Ben Fry编著的《爱上Processing》适合零基础的初学者。《爱上Processing》的1～6章介绍了Processing的基础用法，而7～10章则结合计算机高级编程语言的基础知识，通过示例让初学者更加透彻地理解编程的逻辑思路以及语言。第11章结合Arduino物理模块进行了延伸。《爱上Processing》与《爱上Arduino》一书相呼应，向大家展现了Processing的强大拓展性和创造性。