Description
Book SynopsisGrounded in the user-centered design movement, this book offers a broad consideration of how our civilization has evolved its technical infrastructure for human purpose to help us make sense of our contemporary information infrastructure and online existence. The author incorporates historical, cultural, and aesthetic approaches to situating information and its underlying technologies across time in the collective, lived experiences of humanity.
In today's digital environment, user experience is vital to the success of any product or service. Yet as the user population expands to include us all, designing for people who vary in skills, abilities, preferences, and backgrounds is challenging. This book provides an integrated understanding of users, and the methods that have evolved to identify usability challenges, that can facilitate cohesive and earlier solutions. The book treats information creation and use as a core human behavior based on acts of representation and recordin
Table of Contents
1. Information as a Human Process, 2. The Emergence of User-Centeredness, 3. Designing Our Information World: Craft or Science?, 4. Humans and the Vertical Slice, 5. The Physio-Tech Layer, 6. The Cogito-Tech Layer, 7. The Socio-Tech Layer, 8. The Culturo-Tech Layer, 9. Usability as a Design Value, 10. Acceptability as a Design Value, 11. Augmentation as the REAL Value
