100 Věcí, Které By Měl Každý Designér Vědět O Lidech (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
this book was amazing, im not a web designer as a matter of fact im an illustrator but i still think it is very interesting how minds work, and by this, how us as designers can get to know this and use in our favor.the author not only presents really substancial information but she puts it in a way that is fun and easy to read.the only thing that really bother me is how she promoted her other book, thing that got worse in the final chapters of this one. I have rather mixed reactions of this work. On the one hand, the book provides a fun, pithy set of principles from the field of psychology that have a peripheral bearing on web design. There were many principles that I found rather helpful, such as where the eye focuses, how people remember, and the relationship between rich visual media and human interest.On that other hand, I found the work to be a rather banal treatment of a very broad field, psychology, that often moved so far into the periphery of design considerations that I found myself wondering if there is any direct application that to the field of usability. For that reason, I was not entirely convinced that this particular book is the best medium and presentation strategy for developing what is largely praxis: design execution, usability engineering. While well outside the realm of this work, I am left with the lingering question as to the relationship between literature and artistic expression. How does one translate rigorous academic thought into an intuited set of practices that, in turn, inform those thought processes?Nevertheless, this made for a quick and delightful read of psychology from a designer's perspective and, for all my reservations, gladly recommend this for designers wanting to understand better their users.
What do You think about 100 Věcí, Které By Měl Každý Designér Vědět O Lidech (2011)?
Packed full of great information presented in easy-to-digest sections.
—123qweiop
Easy to read, and presents some interesting studies on human behaviour
—Kay_is_Me
Great advice that can definitely make your designs more user-centric!
—Phindle
