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Brendan Dawes on Interaction Design

Brendan Dawes - Collection Voices that matter

332 pages, parution le 29/09/2006

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Résumé

Creativity is an innate human impulse, many people believe, something we're born with but too often "grow out of" as adult lives make more and more demands. Fortunately for us, the creative drive continues to run strong in legendary designer Brendan Dawes. Habitually alert to the happy accident, and possessed of highly eclectic interests and a quirky wit, he has happened into his perfect career. Around this habit-call it a philosophy-of asking, "Why does this have to be this way? What if ...," Dawes has built magneticNorth, an acclaimed Web and interaction design practice, based in Manchester, U.K.

In this unique book, Dawes invites readers inside a series of his personal projects to get a view of his process--his creative seeing, making, and playing. He encourages designers to look beyond the normal tools of their trade to find inspiration in the most unlikely of places: tubs of children's clay, anonymous notes, household plumbing fixtures, jazz music, snow globes, fast-food take-out bags, airport departure gates, and more. Brilliant, original, and always grounded in the needs of users, Dawes shares both the techniques he has created and the key lessons he has learned in design: why comfort is the enemy of creativity; how mistakes can be celebrated instead of feared, and how to strip design to its purest and most powerful forms. Known worldwide for his entertaining and inspirational presentations, Dawes now brings profound insights to a book that is certain to become a classic inspiration for designers of every type.

L'auteur - Brendan Dawes

Brendan Dawes is Creative Director of the interactive design group magneticNorth, based in Manchester, UK. His clients include the Walt Disney Co., the BBC, Kellogg's, and Coca-Cola. Dawes' work has been featured in numerous journals, including idN, Creative Review, MacUser, Computer Arts, Create, The Guardian, and Communications Arts. He was also featured in New Masters of Flash and other books, and is the author of Flash ActionScript for Designers: Dra,g Slide, Fade. Dawes spends much of the year speaking at conferences around the world, including the HOW Design Conference and Flashforward .

Sommaire

Introduction: Running with Scissors
Looking Up
Revolutionaries: The Zephyr Skateboard Team
Just Ring the Bell When You Get There
"Brown Paper and String" Moments
Play-Doh as Interface
Recycling the Past
All This Useless Beauty
Anything Can Happen in the Next Half-Hour
Waiting for Departure
Nightmare at 30,000 Feet
Strangers on a Train
Spiral Notebook
Revolutionaries: John Whitney
The Power of Silence
Jazz Inspiration
Close to You
Don't Think
Constraints Are Good
Revolutionaries: Raymond Scott
The Special Capability of Making Many Mistakes
Perfection? In a Word, the Pencil
Designing for My Mum
Walk On By
Where's All My Stuff Gone?
A World without Undo
Mash-Up at the Movies
Contextual Memories
Rock 'n'Roll
Mariah Carey Syndrome
From Thin Air
Bending the Rules
Evidence of Use
Comfortably Numb

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	New Riders
Auteur(s)	Brendan Dawes
Collection	Voices that matter
Parution	29/09/2006
Nb. de pages	332
Format	19 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	780g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780321429162
ISBN13	978-0-321-42916-2