October 15th, 2009
Well this is my first blog post to Lushai and I’m happy to be on the team! Instead of writing about me I thought i would share something a friend forwarded onto me recently.
So there is a guy who is writing a book on Interaction Design and he’s breaking the mold a little on this one by asking the user to fund the end result (that’s the book). Usually this sort of stuff annoys me a little but after having read the intro I think I am starting to understand why he already has a fair few people backing him.
The book is called Cadence and Slang. Have a read of the ‘outline of the book’ (scroll a little down the homepage to the link to it) and see what you think. I am relatively impressed with the few snippets that stood out to me such as:
“An interface should be understood at a minimal cognitive cost, which vanishes after enough practice.”
And
“Expectations are always multifaceted, and they are usually moving targets. It takes a sensitive, continually adaptive understanding of what those expectations are to make a good interface.”
It seems like it might be worth throwing him a dollar or two his way so he complete the thing. See what you think yourself.