Dan Saffer

Microinteractions: Full Color Edition (eBook, PDF)

Designing with Details

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Its the little things that turn a good digital product into a great one. With this full color practical book, youll learn how to design effective microinteractions: the small details that exist inside and around features. How can users change a setting? How do they turn on mute, or know they have a new email message?Through vivid, real-world examples from todays devices and applications, author Dan Saffer walks you through a microinteractions essential parts, then shows you how to use them in a mobile app, a web widget, and an appliance. Youll quickly discover how microinteractions can change a product from one thats tolerated into one thats treasured.Explore a microinteractions structure: triggers, rules, feedback, modes, and loopsLearn the types of triggers that initiate a microinteractionCreate simple rules that define how your microinteraction can be usedHelp users understand the rules with feedback, using graphics, sounds, and vibrationsUse modes to let users set preferences or modify a microinteractionExtend a microinteractions life with loops, such as Get data every 30 seconds

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781491945988
• Artikelnr.: 39705952

Autorenporträt

Dan Saffer is a Director of Interaction Design at Smart Design. He is the author of Designing for Interaction: Creating Innovative Applications and Devices (New Riders), Designing Gestural Interfaces (O'Reilly), and Designing Devices. Since 1995, he has designed appliances, devices, software, websites, and services that are used by millions of people every day.

Inhaltsangabe

Praise for Microinteractions
Foreword
Preface
What Is This Book About?
Who Should Read This Book
How This Book Is Organized
Why Write a Book About Microinteractions?
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
Safari® Books Online
How to Contact Us
Content Updates
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Designing Microinteractions
1.1 Microinteractions Are Not Features ... But Still Matter
1.2 The Secret History of Microinteractions
1.3 The Structure of Microinteractions
1.4 Microinteractions as a Philosophy
1.5 Summary
Chapter 2: Triggers
2.1 Manual Triggers
2.2 System Triggers
2.3 Summary
Chapter 3: Rules
3.1 Designing Rules
3.2 Limited Options and Smart Defaults
3.3 Microcopy
3.4 Algorithms
3.5 Summary
Chapter 4: Feedback
4.1 Feedback Illuminates the Rules
4.2 Feedback as a Personality-Delivery Mechanism
4.3 Feedback Methods
4.4 Feedback Rules
4.5 Summary
Chapter 5: Loops and Modes
5.1 Modes
5.2 Loops
5.3 Summary
Chapter 6: Putting It All Together
6.1 Example 1: Mobile App
6.2 Example 2: Online Shared Playlist
6.3 Example 3: Dishwasher Control Panel
6.4 Prototyping and Documenting Microinteractions
6.5 Orchestrating Microinteractions
6.6 Think Small
Testing Microinteractions
What to Look for During Testing
Using Quantitative Data
A Process for Testing Microinteractions
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