Matters of Design, Part II.

The article presents part 2 of a blog from the journal's web site on design methods used by the computer company Apple Inc. and insights that can be learned by the human-computer interaction (HCI) community. The author notes a pervasive understanding that exists at the company regarding the link bet...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 54; no. 4; pp. 10 - 12
Autor principal: Hong, Jason
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Apr2011
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Sumario:The article presents part 2 of a blog from the journal's web site on design methods used by the computer company Apple Inc. and insights that can be learned by the human-computer interaction (HCI) community. The author notes a pervasive understanding that exists at the company regarding the link between good product design and sales. Apple workday operations that exemplify this finding are noted including the strength of top-down design work, the accomplishment of designs that are considered to be impossible upon first inspection, and differences between Apple design methods and so-called best practices in HCI.