Designing Across Senses: A Multimodal Approach to Product Design - Softcover

Alderman, John; Park, Christine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1491954248 ISBN 13: 9781491954249

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2018

Synopsis

Today we have the ability to connect speech, touch, haptic, and gestural interfaces into products that engage several human senses at once. This practical book explores examples from current designers and devices to describe how these products blend multiple interface modes together into a cohesive user experience.

Authors Christine Park and John Alderman explain the basic principles behind multimodal interaction and introduce the tools you need to root your design in the ways our senses shape experience. This book also includes guides on process, design, and deliverables to help your team get started.

The book covers several topics within multimodal design, including:

• New Human Factors: learn how human sensory abilities allow us to interact with technology and the physical world
• New Technologies: explore some of the technologies that enable multimodal interactions, products, and capabilities
• Multimodal Products: examine different categories of products and learn how they deliver sensory-rich experiences
• Multimodal Design: learn processes and methodologies for multimodal product design, development, and release

About this title

About the Author:

Christine Park has designed products spanning fashion, furniture, print, exhibitions, and interfaces. From haute couture to healthcare, she is passionate about the way design can improve and transform our daily lives. She has helped companies like Intel, Microsoft XBox, Samsung, Nike, and many others to develop experiences for the screen, the living room, public spaces, and the body. Her work has won awards and patents, has been featured in numerous publications, and has been showcased at New York Fashion Week, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, and the Cannes Lions Festival.

Currently, she is the Design Director of Livongo, creating new devices and services to improve the experience and quality of healthcare. In her spare time, she travels, plays video games, and is learning how to paddleboard with her dog, Barnaby.

John Alderman is a creative planner who helps companies develop and execute strategies for innovative brands, content, and design. He began his career as a writer and editor covering technology, internet, and culture at Mondo 2000, and Wired, and then worked as a creative director at Razorfish and The Barbarian Group. He writes about how technology, design, business, and culture shape each other, and transform how we live. He has previously written two books: Sonic Boom (a New York Times Notable Book) and Core Memory (a Design Observer Book of the Year), and has contributed to Domus, Étapes, Rhizome, The Independent, and The Guardian. He has been interviewed by BBC, NPR, CNN and many others. He likes to travel and play music, sometimes at the same time.

About this edition

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1491954248
• ISBN 13: 9781491954249
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 293