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Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons From Science Fiction (2012)

by Nathan Shedroff(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1933820985 (ISBN13: 9781933820989)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Rosenfeld Media

review 1: Science fiction is a good source for interaction design inspiration. Plus it shapes the expectations of the audience how interactions should work, before the technology is ready. See science fiction movies as prototypes where you can evaluate whether a certain interaction could make sense in a future product. The book is an inspirational read if you are interested in possible future interaction paradigms.There is a lot of inspiration in science fiction movies.
review 2: There are a lot of interesting observations about the scifi aesthetic here. For example: if you want to make your technology look retro, use capital letters and monospace fonts. To evoke advanced technology, use a sans serif typeface. Color coding is often used to differentiate different alien r... moreaces. Social status must be taken under consideration when depicting a conversation two people where one of them is a volumetric projection, i.e. hologram, so you can't have Darth Vader look like a toy in the hands of a Stormtrooper. This is indeed interesting, but not really useful to most interaction designers, unless your task is to design a dashboard for the next Star Trek movie. The authors are engrossed by the cool and weird technologies they encounter in their survey, but do not draw lessons that are applicable to designing present-day interfaces. By the way, after reading about those awesome movies, I wished they had provided a shortlist in an appendix. Nonetheless, give this book a try. It is the only one of its kind. If you are designing sci-fi interfaces, it's truly useful. less

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