Designing User Experience: A Guide To Hci, Ux and Interaction Design, 4th edition

Designing User Experience presents a comprehensive introduction to the practical issue of creating interactive systems, services and products from a human-centred perspective. It develops the principles and methods of human–computer interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design (ID) to deal with the design of twenty-first-century computing and the demands for improved user experience (UX). It brings together the key theoretical foundations of human experiences when people interact with and through technologies. It explores UX in a wide variety of environments and contexts.

• Four parts covering the essentials, techniques, contexts and foundations of designing user experience.
• Appropriate balance between psychology theory and technological development
• Excellent pedagogical features throughout the book, including links to additional material
• Broad coverage enables the material to be used throughout undergraduate and postgraduate study.
• Fully illustrated throughout, with over 300 images and diagrams of the latest technologies, techniques and interactive experiences
• Suitable for people with different disciplinary backgrounds such as computer science, design, software engineering, psychology, interactive media, information systems and many others

A change of title from Designing Interactive Systems to Designing User Experience represents a significant change in the discipline. This new edition has been updated throughout to represent a change of emphasis as opposed to a completely new curriculum. It moves the focus of interaction design from single self-contained interactive experiences into a world of many interconnected devices, delivering a wide variety of cloud-based services, using more social media and delivered across multiple media channels.