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- Focuses on responsible, mindful design theory and practice, rather than how to leverage ‘addictive’ or ‘habit-forming’ approaches
- Can be used by hobbyists, professionals, and to provide insight into forming a UX design syllabus that’s backed by an understanding of the brain and mind
- Written by Scott Riley, who has spoken at conferences around the world on the intersection of cognitive science, design and development and is often found on Twitter @scott_riley
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Learn to create seamless designs backed by a responsible understanding of the human mind. This book examines how human behavior can be used to integrate your product design into lifestyle, rather than interrupt it, and make decisions for the good of those that are using your product.
Mindful Design introduces the areas of brain science that matter to designers, and passionately explains how those areas affect each human’s day-to-day experiences with products and interfaces. You will learn about the neurological aspects and limitations of human vision and perception; about our attachment to harmony and dissonance, such as visual harmony, musical harmony; and about our brain’s propensity towards pattern recognition and how we perceive the world cognitively.
In the second half of the book you will focus on the practical application of what you have learned, specific to interaction and interface design. Real-world examples are used throughout so that you can really see how design is impacting our everyday digital experience.
Design is a responsibility, but not enough designers understand the human mind or the process of thought. This book explores the key factors involved and shows you how to make the right design choices.
What You'll Learn
- Review how attention and distraction work and the cost of attentional switching
- Use Gestalt principles to communicate visual grouping
- Ensure your underlying models make sense to your audience
- Use time, progression, and transition to create a composition
- Carefully examine controlling behavior through reductionist and behaviorist motivation concepts
- Apply the theoretical knowledge to practical, mindful application design
Who This Book Is For
The primary audience for this book is professional designers who wish to learn more about thehuman mind and how to apply that to their work. The book is also useful for design-focussed product owners and startup founders who wish to apply ethical thinking to a team, or when bootstrapping their products. The secondary audience is design students who are either studying a ‘traditional’ visual design course, or a UX/interaction design course who have a desire to learn how they might be able to apply mindful design to their early careers. Finally, a tertiary audience for this book would be tutors involved in teaching design, or peripheral, courses who may wish to incorporate its teachings into their lectures, workshops or seminars.Authors and Affiliations
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Nottingham, UK
Scott Riley
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mindful Design
Book Subtitle: How and Why to Make Design Decisions for the Good of Those Using Your Product
Authors: Scott Riley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4234-6
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Scott Riley 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-4234-6Published: 10 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 359
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 97 illustrations in colour
Topics: Web Development