Interaction design

I read many reviews about the book ‘designing for interaction’ of Dan Saffer so I had high expectations of reading the book. Here I will share my opinions after reading the book.

Dan Saffer has tried to give an overview of interaction design in which he partly succeeded. He describes what interaction design is about and introduces some design basics, research and typical interaction design methods such as personas, storyboards or use cases. The advantage of the book is that it gives an overview of what interaction design is about, but unfortunately always stays on a superficial level. Other authors have written books and books about personas while Dan Saffer does it in five pages. This is my main negative point, because Dan Saffer created overview he also lost focus, don’t expect to be able to put methods or tools in the book into practice. For that everything has been described in a too general level. [Continue reading...]