This text provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of human-machine interaction and the design of environments at work.
Fundamental to my work in designing for human experience is my early experiences of human augmentation in supporting what the world describes as disability.
This book helps these people to learn more about themselves and how to think and be in their practice of design--to help them grasp all that is going on inside that then influences their creations.
When designed with people in mind, this influence can improve lives and productivity. This book provides a broad introduction on how to attend to the needs, capabilities, and preferences of people in the design process.
In Things We Could Design, Ron Wakkary argues that human-centered design is not the answer to our problems but is itself part of the problem.
Each chapter covers a single methodology, providing insight via detailed descriptions, step-by-step guidance, and high-fidelity examples. The book can either be read front to back or by following along with one of the sample designs.
Whilst most research concentrates on the imagined future of robotics, this book brings together a group of international researchers to explore the different ways that robots and humans engage with one another at this point in history.
The founding father of modern industrial designer reveals the secrets behind his revolutionary approach in this classic volume.
Insofar as this being has to be in advance of what we currently are, it would be a 'super-being', but of course the kind of usage to which the word 'super' has been put casts it into a pit of debased language.
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