Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook - Softcover

Greenberg, Saul; Carpendale, Sheelagh; Marquardt, Nicolai; Buxton, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0123819598 ISBN 13: 9780123819598

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 2011

Synopsis

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/

About this title

About the Authors

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.

From the Back Cover

Sketching has long been a best practice for designers. Through sketches, designers follow a generative process of developing, honing, and choosing ideas. Designers also use sketches to discuss, exchange, and critique ideas with others. When designers sketch user experiences, their drawings also need to incorporate the actions, interactions, and changes of these experiences that unfold over time. This can be challenging if you are a non-artist, or have not been trained within a conventional design discipline that specifically practices the time element that is so critical to interactive interfaces.

In Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook, you will learn, through step-by-step instructions and exercises, various sketching methods that will let you express your design ideas about user experiences across time. Collectively, these methods will be your sketching repertoire: a toolkit where you can choose the method most appropriate for developing your ideas, which will help you cultivate a culture of experience-based design and critique in your workplace.

Edition details

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0123819598
• ISBN 13: 9780123819598
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272