1st Edition

Understanding Users Designing Experience through Layers of Meaning

By Andrew Dillon Copyright 2023
264 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Grounded in the user-centered design movement, this book offers a broad consideration of how our civilization has evolved its technical infrastructure for human purpose to help us make sense of our contemporary information infrastructure and online existence. The author incorporates historical, cultural, and aesthetic approaches to situating information and its underlying technologies across time... Read more

1. Information as a Human Process

2. The Emergence of User-Centeredness

3. Designing Our Information World: Craft or Science?

4. Humans and the Vertical Slice

5. The Physio-Tech Layer

6. The Cogito-Tech Layer

7. The Socio-Tech Layer

8. The Culturo-Tech Layer

9. Usability as a Design Value

10. Acceptability as a Design Value

11. Augmentation as the REAL Value

Biography

Andrew Dillon is the V.M. Daniel Professor of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, where he served as dean of the School of Information from 2002 to 2017. Prior to this he was a founding member of the School of Informatics at Indiana University, where he directed the master’s program in HCI. He earned a PhD in psychology at Loughborough University and a BA and MA (first class) at University College Cork, Ireland.