Week 6: The book I plan to review
I’ve chosen Alan Cooper’s “The Inmates Are Running The Asylum” partly because it was the most attention-grabbing title of all the suggested books and partly because I had heard about Cooper and his concept of GOAL-DIRECTED (BTW, the concept is a registered trademark — putting COM 558 learning to use J) methodology through the Cooper U educational program (http://www.cooper.com/). His idea is “when you start your design and development work with the goals of users in mind, you achieve clarity, and your engagements go smoothly.”
This resonated with me and my COM 585 readings, so I decided to pick up this book. So far I am enjoying the humor, the examples and conversational style of writing. Waiting to see how Cooper ties all the parts and chapters together.
Book title: The Inmates Are Running The Asylum — Why high-tech products drive us crazy and how to restore the sanity
ISBN: 0-672-31649-8
This resonated with me and my COM 585 readings, so I decided to pick up this book. So far I am enjoying the humor, the examples and conversational style of writing. Waiting to see how Cooper ties all the parts and chapters together.
Book title: The Inmates Are Running The Asylum — Why high-tech products drive us crazy and how to restore the sanity
ISBN: 0-672-31649-8
posted by sakina | Monday, February 06, 2006
1 Comments:
Meg:
I'm not sure if this book will help me with the nuts and bolts of a web design, but it is definitely giving me a broad overview of what a good design can be and the common traps designers run into, specially if they happen to be programmers. I wish he talked a bit more about the 'process' of a good web design, but maybe he'll deal with it later, (I've only read half the book).
Nope, not similar to Cluetrain, except that he does rant a bit. :) Mainly about poor design that drives you mad and has a human cost.
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