作者：GilesColborne
出版社：NewRidersPress
出版年：October1,2010
页数：208
定价：$29.99
装帧：平装
ISBN：9780321703545
内容简介
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In a complex world, products that are easy to use win favor with consumers. This is the first book on the topic of simplicity aimed specifically at interaction designers. It shows how to drill down and simplify user experiences when designing digital tools and applications. It begins by explaining why simplicity is attractive, explores the laws of simplicity, and presents proven strategies for achieving simplicity. Remove, hide, organize and displace become guidelines for designers, who learn simplicity by seeing before and after examples and case studies where the results speak for themselves.
From the Back Cover
作者简介
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Giles Colborne has been designing interactive user experiences since the early 1990s and it’s about time he did something useful like writing a book.
When he’s not doing that he he’s busy with cxpartners, a design consultancy based in Bristol and London that specialises in web and mobile user interface design for companies such as Marriott, Nokia and eBay. Giles and Richard Caddick founded cxpartners in 2004.
目录
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Part 1
Why are we here?
A story about simplicity
The power of simplicity
Increasing complexity is unsustainable
Not that kind of simple
Character
Fake simplicity
Know yourself
Part 2
Setting a vision
Two ways to describe what’s core
Get out of your office
What to look for
Three types of user
Why you should ignore expert customers
Design for the mainstream
What mainstreamers want
Emotional needs
Simplicity is about control
Choosing the right “what”
Describing the user experience
Putting it all together
World, character, Extreme usability
The quick and dirty way
Insight
Getting the right vision
Share it
Part 3
Four strategies for simplicity
Simplify this
The remote control
The four strategies
Part 4
Remove
Remove
How not to do it
Focus on what’s core
Kill lame features
What if the user…?
But our customers want it
Solutions, not processes
When features don’t matter
Will it hurt?
Prioritizing features Load Decisions
Distractions
Smart defaults
Options and preferences
When one option is too many
Errors
Visual clutter
Removing words
Simplifying sentences
Removing too much
You can do it
Focus
Part 5
Organize
Organize
Chunking
Organizing for behavior
Hard edges
Alphabets and formats
Search
Time and space
Grids
Size and location Layers
Color coding
Desire paths
Part 6
Hide
Hide
Infrequent but necessary
Customizing
Automatic customization
Progressive disclosure
Staged disclosure
X doesn’t mark the spot
Cues and clues
Making things easy to find
After you hide
Part 7
Displace
Displace
Displacing between devices
Mobile vs. desktop
Displacing to the user
What users do best
Creating open experiences
Kitchen knives and pianos
Unstructured data
Trust
Part 8
Before we go
Conservation of complexity
Details
Simplicity happens in the user’s head
Photo Credits 186
Index 189
评论 ······
basic but informative
simple, helpful and well-designed book. recommend!
这本书是2011年出版的，这几年网站之类的大部分遵循了书中讲到的规则，所以看这本书会有一种这你也要说的感觉。后面有干货。不过那个dvd remote cotroller的例子最后的版本竟然类似apple tv的controller的设计顿时就有一种脱光裤子你给我看这个的即视感。apple tv是06年出的第一代，没有见过那个时候遥控器的样子，不过作者绝对是果粉无疑
稍微多看几本类似的就发现想法重复了，不过也能加深印象和理解。遇到一些跟自己理念不一的，我再想想吧。users make direction but you guide them.
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