Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook

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Elsevier, 2012 - Business & Economics - 272 pages
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Sketching Working Experience: The Workbook provides information about the step-by-step process of the different sketching techniques. It offers methods called design thinking, as a way to think as a user, and sketching, a way to think as a designer. User-experience designers are designers who sketch based on their actions, interactions, and experiences.
The book discusses the differences between the normal ways to sketch and sketching used by user-experience designers. It also describes some motivation on why a person should sketch and introduces the sketchbook. The book reviews the different sketching methods and the modules that contain a particular sketching method. It also explains how the sketching methods are used.
Readers who are interested in learning, understanding, practicing, and teaching experience design, information design, interface design, and information architecture will find this book relevant.

  • Features standalone modules detailing methods and exercises for practitioners who want to learn and develop their sketching skills

  • Extremely practical, with illustrated examples detailing all steps on how to do a method

  • Excellent for individual learning, for classrooms, and for a team that wants to develop a culture of design practice

  • Perfect complement to Buxton's Sketching User Experience or any UX text
  • Author-maintained companion website at

    http://grouplab.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/sketchbook/

 

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This book is a great addition to any aspiring UX designer's toolkit. It encourages sketching frequently and has a bunch of exercises for getting used to doing it. It's helped me, a non-artistic UX designer, sketch and I've noted many of its methods to use over and over again.

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Contents

Getting into the Mood
1
Sampling the Real World
29
The Single Image
67
Snapshots in Time The Visual Narrative
145
Animating the User Experience
179
Involving Others
215
Index
255
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About the author (2012)

PhD, Full Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary

Sheelagh Carpendale is a Professor at the University of Calgary where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization and an NSERC/AITF/SMART Industrial Research Chair in Interactive Technologies. She is the recipient of several major awards, including the NSERC University Faculty Award (UFA) and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award (BAFTA) for Off-line Learning. She directs the Innovations in Visualization (InnoVis) research group and the Computational Media Design interdisciplinary graduate group. Her research on information visualization, large interactive displays, and media art draws on her dual background in Computer Science (Ph.D. Simon Fraser University) and Visual Arts (Sheridan College and Emily Carr University of Art and Design).

Nicolai Marquardt is a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary working with Dr. Saul Greenberg. He graduated in Media Systems from the Bauhaus University in Weimar, and joined Microsoft Research in Cambridge and Redmond as an intern during his graduate studies. He uses sketches extensively when designing novel interactive systems.

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TitleSketching User Experiences: The Workbook
AuthorsSaul Greenberg, Sheelagh Carpendale, Nicolai Marquardt, Bill Buxton, William Buxton
Editionillustrated
PublisherElsevier, 2012
ISBN0123819598, 9780123819598
Length272 pages
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Business & Economics / Research & Development
Computers / Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Computers / Internet / Web Design
Computers / Software Development & Engineering / Computer Graphics
Computers / Web / Page Design
Design / Product
Technology & Engineering / Industrial Design / General
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