HCI and User-Experience Design by Aaron Marcus

HCI and User-Experience Design by Aaron Marcus

This book consists of a series of essays which addresses the essentials of the development processes in user-experience design (UX design) planning, research, analysis, evaluation, training and  implementation, and deals with  the essential components (metaphors, mental models, navigation, and appearance) of user-interfaces and user-experiences during the period of 2002-2007.

These essays grew from the authors own column entitled ‘Fast Forward’ which appeared in Interaction Magazine – the flagship publication of the ACM Special Interest Group on Human-Computing Interaction (SIGCHI). Written in such a way as to ensure longevity, these essays have not been edited or updated, however a short Postscripts has been added to provide some comments on each topic from a current perspective.

HCI and User-Experience Design provides a fascinating historical review of  the professional and research world of UX and HCI during a period of significant growth and development and would be of interest to students, researchers, and designers who are interested in recent developments within the field.

Dr Anxo Roibas is Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton, Visiting Lecturer at Westminster University, at the Politecnico di Milano and the National Institute of Design (India). He has been user experience Consultant for Vodafone and since 2000 he has been collaborating with the Nokia Research Center. He has coordinated ethnographic research in collaboration with the Vodafone Group Fondation and the British Royal Academic of Engineering exploring the use of mobile phones as multimedia interfaces. He has been British Fellow at the BT IT Mobility Research Center. Anxo is Executive Committee member of the British HCI Group.

Aaron Marcus (BA, Princeton University, BFA, MFA, Yale University) is President of Aaron Mracus and Associates, Inc. a pioneering user-interface (UI) design firm. Mr Marcus is the world's first graphic designer to use computers. His firm has worked on mobile UI projects with Equilibrio, HP, Motorola, Nokia, Siemens, Samsung, Qwest, and Visa among others. He has written/co-written 4 books and more than 250 papers and lectures/tutors worldwide about mobile UI design.

Riccardo Sala (BA and MSc Design Politecnico di Milano, MA Interactive Media Dublin Institute of Technology) is Information Architect at Dare Digital. He has been interaction designer at the Times Online. He has also worked as consultant HCI designer specialized in new media and the assessment of the user experience with applications and services for mobile phones.