Reviews

About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Fourth Edition by Alan Cooper

mkinne's review

Go to review page

4.0

This book needs to take its own advice and design a better interaction with the book itself. Heading levels weren't distinct enough for me, there was a reference to a previous cover, and the tone/writing was somewhat uneven but mostly ... curmudgeonly. I can't tell you how many people asked me what "Abo UTF Ace" even was just from glancing at the cover. However, the authors do make up for it with lots of valuable information - this is a pretty great introduction to Interaction Design; aside from the problems noted above, I only with it gave more evidence for the advice & choices within its pages beyond the experiential - show me some studies, tell my why this works cognitively better than that, etc.

anitaclaralopez's review

Go to review page

5.0

Usefull and complete resource. Instead of spending time looking on the web I come back to this book as a guide for my projects, I can appreciate the detail explanations from each section.

oxygen's review

Go to review page

4.0

Informative, useful! Sometimes lightens up the mood with jokesy image captions, but could stand to add a few more since it gets quite dense at times. For a theory book it is still not too bad denseness-wise.

aamna's review against another edition

Go to review page

5.0

The Bible for interaction design. It's a bit academic but if you're really into this topic you won't regret picking it up one bit.

torbokat's review against another edition

Go to review page

5.0

Classic, trustworthy book to refresh you on or teach you your basics of interaction design.

thestarlitpage's review against another edition

Go to review page

informative slow-paced

4.0

More...