Brave NUI World - Designing natural user interfaces for touch and gesture

The first practical guide for designing touch-based interfaces ... at your fingertips. Brave NUI World by Daniel Wigdor and Dennis Wixon is a must-read for anyone involved in creating compelling user interfaces using modern technology and who, after testing, says, Why didnt that design work the way it was intended ? To novices in the field, it will read as a how-to guide. For seasoned designers, it reads like a novel where you suspect the outcome but there is usually a twist in the plot, giving you that extra idea to think again. I genuinely enjoyed it and I am not likely to put it away soon. - Paul Neervoort, Lead User Experience Designer. Philips Design - Touch and gestural devices have been hailed as the next evolutionary step in human-computer interaction. As software companies struggle to catch up with one another in terms of developing the next great touch-based interface, designers are charged with the daunting task of keeping up with the advances in new technology and this new aspect to user experience design. Product and interaction designers, developers, and managers are already well-versed in UI design, but touch-based interfaces have added a new level of complexity. They need quick references and real-world examples in order to make informed decisions when designing for these particular interfaces. Brave NUI World is the first practical book for product and interaction developers and designers creating touch and gesture interfaces. Written by developers of industry-first multi-touch, multi-user products, this book gives you the necessary tools and information to integrate touch and gesture practices into your daily work, presenting scenarios, problem solving. metaphors, and techniques to help you avoid making mistakes. Provides easy-to-apply design guidance for the unique challenge of creating touch- and gesture-based user interfaces. Considers diverse user needs and context, real-world successes and failures, and the future of NUI. Presents 30 scenarios, giving practitioners a multitude of considerations for making informed design decisions and helping to ensure that missteps are never made again.

Brave NUI World : Designing Natural User …