Beautiful Designing for People - Softcover

 
9781616892913: Beautiful Designing for People
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1616892919 ISBN 13: 9781616892913
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2014

Synopsis

This is the exhibition catalog for Beautiful Users, one of the Cooper-Hewitt's reopening exhibitions set for Fall 2014. The show is curated by Ellen Lupton and the catalog will be edited and designed by her. The exhibition explores the changing relationship between designers and users, touching upon topics such as ergonomics, human factors, affordances, design thinking, design process and universal design.

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About the Author

Ellen Lupton is the author, co-author or editor of 13 books with PrincetonArchitectural Press, including Design Culture Now; Skin: Surface,Substance + Design; Inside Design Now; Thinking with Type; D.I.Y.: DesignIt Yourself and D.I.Y. Kids. She is Curator of Contemporary Design, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York andDirector, Graphic Design MFA Program, Maryland Institute College of Art,Baltimore. She is the recipient of numerous awards including I.D. Forty,1992; Chrysler Design Award, 1996 and AIGA Gold Medal, 2007.

From the Back Cover

In the mid-twentieth century, Henry Dreyfuss-widely considered the father of industrial design-pioneered a user-centered approach to design that focuses on studying people's behaviors and attitudes as a key first step in developing successful products. In the intervening years, user-centered design has expanded to undertake the needs of differently abled users and global populations as well as the design of complex systems and services. Beautiful Users explores the changing relationship between designers and users and considers a range of design methodologies and practices, from user research to hacking, open source, and the maker culture.

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Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1616892919
ISBN 13 
9781616892913
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
144
Editor
Lupton Ellen