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The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman, Donald A. Norman, Donald A. Norman

Donald Norman's best-selling plea for user-friendly design, with more than 175,000 copies sold to date, is now a Basic paperback. First, businesses discovered quality as a key competitive edge; next came service. Now, Donald A. Norman, former Director of the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of California, reveals how smart design is the new competitive frontier. The Design of Everyday Things... (more)

In the Blink of an Eye Revised 2nd Edition

In the Blink of an Eye Revised 2nd Edition

by Walter Murch, Francis Ford Coppola

In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought -- provoking essay on film editing. Starting with what might be the most basic editing question -- Why do cuts work? -- Murch treats the reader to a wonderful ride through the aesthetics and practical concerns of cutting film. Along the way, he offers his unique insights on such subjects as continuity and discontinuity... (more)

Don't Make Me Think

A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

by Steve Krug

Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it's hard to imagine anyone working in Web design who hasn't read Steve Krug's "instant classic" on Web usability, but people are still discovering it every day. In this second edition, Steve adds three new chapters in the same style as the original: wry and entertaining, yet loaded with insights and practical advice for novice and... (more)

Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Tenth Anniversary Edition

Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Tenth Anniversary Edition

by Susan Bordo

Revised edition with new preface and foreword.

The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size (Penguin Press Science)

The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size (Penguin Press Science)

by Tor N\c3\b8rretranders

As John Casti wrote, "Finally, a book that really does explain consciousness." This groundbreaking work by Denmark's leading science writer draws on psychology, evolutionary biology, information theory, and other disciplines to argue its revolutionary point: that consciousness represents only an infinitesimal fraction of our ability to process information. Although we are unaware of it, our brains sift through and... (more)

User-Centered Technology: A Rhetorical Theory for Computers and Other Mundane Artifacts (Suny Series in Studies in Scientific and Technical Communication)

User-Centered Technology: A Rhetorical Theory for Computers and Other Mundane Artifacts (Suny Series in Studies in Scientific and Technical Communication)

by Robert R. Johnson

Awarded "1998 Best Book" by the National Council of Teachers of English for Excellence in Technical and Scientific Communication. User-Centered Technology presents a theoretical model for examining technology through a user perspective. Johnson begins with a historical overview of the problem of technological use from the ancient Greeks to the present day - a problem seen most clearly in historical... (more)

Information Access And Adaptive Technology: (American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Education)

Information Access And Adaptive Technology: (American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Education)

by Carmela Cunningham

Today, colleges and universities are ethically and legally bound to make their computing facilities and information technology centers more accessible to persons with disabilities. Information Access and Adaptive Technology provides information to help meet this responsibility efficiently and successfully.

About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design

About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design

by Alan Cooper

The cleverest code in the world is worth nothing if a program's interface proves an unwieldy barrier to users. That's why programmers and designers alike will benefit from About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design . Here, respected software designer Alan Cooper shares his own real-world experience and design principles so that you, too, can fashion intuitive, effective user interfaces. Applicable to... (more)

Image, Music, Text

by Roland Barthes

These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" and "The Death of the Author" are also included.

Women, Disability and Identity

Text asserts the belief that it is important for feminist research to define a space for women with disabilities in order to establish where they stand in the 'public mass culture.' Women with disabilities face a triple challenge: as women, as disabled, and as women with disabilities. Focuses on the discriminations faced and transitions made. Hardcover, softcover available from the publisher.

Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less

Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less

by Guy Claxton

In these accelerated times, our decisive and businesslike ways of thinking are unprepared for ambiguity, paradox, and sleeping on it." We assume that the quick-thinking "hare brain" will beat out the slower Intuition of the "tortoise mind." However, now research in cognitive science is changing this understanding of the human mind. It suggests that patience and confusion--rather than rigor and certainty--are the... (more)

Communication and Handicap: Aspects of Psychological Compensation And Technical AIDS (Advances in Psychology)

Communication and Handicap: Aspects of Psychological Compensation And Technical AIDS (Advances in Psychology)

Theory and data on various aspects of cognition, communication and handicap are presented here, related to two sorts of psychological compensation. On the one hand, basic principles of cognition are employed with the purpose of helping to overcome communicative difficulties among handicapped people, and on the other, various sorts of technical aids used for compensatory purposes are examined. Many of the papers... (more)

Computer Resources for People With Disabilities: A Guide to Assistive Technologies, Tools, and Resources for People of All Ages

Computer Resources for People With Disabilities: A Guide to Assistive Technologies, Tools, and Resources for People of All Ages

by Alliance for Technology Access

Completely updated, with 40 percent new material, this is an indispensable guide for people with disabilities who wish to improve their lives through computer technology. It lists what's available and how best to use it; provides names of organizations, vendors, and online resources; and tells the stories of real people of all ages who are using technology successfully.

Female Forms: Experiencing and Understanding Disability (Disability, Human Rights, and Society)

Female Forms: Experiencing and Understanding Disability (Disability, Human Rights, and Society)

by Carol Thomas

(Open University Press) Explores and develops ideas about disability. Examines the interface between disability studies, women's studies, and medical sociology. For students and practitioners in women's studies, medical sociology, occupational therapy, and physiotherapy. British oriented. Softcover, hardcover also available.

Orlan: Millennial Female (Dress, Body, Culture)

Orlan: Millennial Female (Dress, Body, Culture)

by Kate Ince

The French performance artist Orlan has acquired both fame and infamy for her performances. A multimedia artist since the 1960s, she embarked at the beginning of the 1990s on a project of body modification through plastic surgery, the basic premise of which was to transform herself into a digitally designed pastiche of the greatest icons of female beauty in Western art. Orlan's project has sparked intense debate... (more)

Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media

Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media

by Gerard Goggin

"Media representation of and for the disabled has been recharged in recent years with the expansion of new media worldwide. Interactive digital communications--such as the Internet, new varieties of voice and text telephones, and digital broadcasting--have created a need for a more innovative understanding of new media and disability issues. This engaging analysis offers a global perspective on how people with... (more)

Carnal Art: Orlans Refacing

by C. Jill O'Bryan

Product Design for the Environment

by Fabio Giudice

Based on a multi-level design approach to optimize product architecture and components, this book provides basic concepts, methodological frameworks, mathematical modeling, and design tools, illustrating the practical application of Design for Environment. The text integrates the life cycle approach in the conventional engineering design process, and covers the best strategies to achieve environmental quality,... (more)

ECODESIGN Implementation: A Systematic Guidance on Integrating Environmental Considerations into Product Development (Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries)

ECODESIGN Implementation: A Systematic Guidance on Integrating Environmental Considerations into Product Development (Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries)

by Wolfgang Wimmer, Rainer Züst, Kun-Mo Lee

Stakeholders such as environmental directives and customer demands for reducing environmental impacts of a product require innovative and environmentally improved products. Therefore a systematic approach and effective methods and tools are needed in the early phase of product development. The basic elements for optimized process management in the design department are described in this book. The book... (more)

Strength: Broadsides from Disability on the Arts

Strength: Broadsides from Disability on the Arts

by Paddy Masefield

"A revealing account of the arts industries’ attempts to exclude Disability Arts. Readers will be astonished by the potential of disabled artists to refresh the arts world with a new honesty and insight in this wonderfully illustrated anthology. There is a wealth of extraordinary material. Paddy Masefield’s observations are touching, scary, funny, but above all human." -- Liz Lynne MEP, Vice Chair of the... (more)

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