Designing by Drawing

Designing by Drawing - Available from Lulu print on demand
Designing by Drawing: A practical guide to creating usable interactive design is now available for purchase from Lulu as a full color paperback or a downloadable PDF file. The content is identical either way, so make your choice. If it’s important to you that I sell an eBook version or something else, tell me about that in the comments below.

This is a book for designers, prospective designers or other usability professionals who find themselves designing interactive systems of any sort.

If you are unsure how to proceed with your design work, dread the part of your job where you have to specify designs or just have problems communicating your design with clients or implementation teams, this will provide you with a series of procedures, methodologies and tactics to help.

And if you disagree with something, just tell me about it. The book will be regularly updated to stay current, and any useful comments will actually be integrated into the next release of the book.

General comments are welcome, but if you want to make a comment for inclusion in the book, then you need to provide a reference. Look for the blue letters to the left of each paragraph or title. At least provide the section, but note that you can go to paragraph and even sentence (or bullet) level, if the comment is best anchored at this point.

All comments must have an author. Keep the comments professional, and there’s no reason I can think of you wouldn’t want your name attached to it. If you want to have everyone know who you work for and provide an address to contact you, insert this in the comment also.

 

6 Comments »

  1. Colonel Hoober?
    Good thing you didn’t go with that one. How usable is a word that isn’t pronounced ANYTHING like it is spelled? I look forward to reading it.

    Comment by Brian Bird — April 14, 2009 @ 2:30 pm

  2. Ah, that’s part of the collaboration thing. Others did the stuff to the side (and you should see the ones I wouldn’t let on the cover at all (I’m not /that/ collaborative after all).

    Chris Nemeth did the “colonel” one. He’s like that.

    Comment by steven — April 14, 2009 @ 2:58 pm

  3. Good book – I enjoyed flipping thru the paper version at the Design 4 Mobile conference. I’m looking forward to reading it.

    FYI: I bought the pdf from Lulu. It’s missing the front cover – there’s just a white page. It makes quite the minimalist statement.

    Nader

    Comment by Nader — April 22, 2009 @ 2:44 pm

  4. Sigh. Not even sure how to fix that. I don’t load new info for Lulu to publish the PDF and they are supposed to make it all pretty, so… I guess a call to tech support is in order.

    If anyone else gets that and it bugs them, tell me and I’ll… do something. Maybe just send you a copy I’ll make myself. Content is all the same, though. Just the cover is missing, apparently.

    Comment by steven — April 22, 2009 @ 5:19 pm

  5. I have updated the Lulu storefront to be non-comical. Now it has my name in place of “stevenhooberatgmaildotcom” and a better totally lame and generic layout and background.

    Most importantly, the economy sucks. I have talked to a dozen folks who will eventually buy the book, but not yet. So, if you want a print edition, but $65 is high, I added the previously internal-only black & white edition to the public store. Now you can pay $24.99 for either the PDF download or a real, printed book mailed to your doorstep.

    Comment by steven — April 22, 2009 @ 11:04 pm

  6. Also seem to have fixed the PDF issue. I guess you just cannot put in the real cover. Not sure why. So I traded a couple pages, and there is a terribly boring “cover” page with the title, subtitle and dates. Gotta look into better ways to solve this.

    The content of the actual /book/ is identical, but if you really need to get the pretty cover, I’ll find someplace to post that file, and you can find a friend with Acrobat Pro to glue it onto the body files.

    Comment by steven — April 22, 2009 @ 11:59 pm

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