ideas worth stealingdesigning the moment (new riders)
A good user experience is all about good moments. Each moment has the potential to increase a user’s confidence or destroy trust for a product or company, and each one is an important piece of the complete user experience.
In Designing the Moment, Robert Hoekman, Jr., author of the Amazon bestseller Designing the Obvious, presents over 30 stories of design solutions from real projects that show the evolution of each design as it was crafted and reveal the principles and concepts used to arrive at the solutions. Designing the Moment shows us how to look critically at design decisions to ensure that our users can walk away from our software feeling productive, respected, and smart, from the first impression to the last.
- a “think-out-loud”view into design solutions from real projects
- a critical look at elements from every phase of a user’s interaction with a Web site or application
- a collection of principles and concepts to guide the design of everything from page layouts to social networking features
Most of all, it’s a blow-by-blow, expert analysis of the subtle details of an interface that make or break a user’s experience, and how to improve each and every interaction, one moment at a time.
- Buy it now!
- Download the sample chapter! (PDF, 487kb)
(Includes the Introduction, Table of Contents, and Chapter 13 )
- Join the Facebook group
- Links from the book
reviews
After I was about half-way through Robert’s first book, Designing the Obvious, I ordered a copy for everyone in my company, even non-developers, because it concisely summarized so much of what I think we should do.
- Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic, makers of WordPress