CD-ROM by Voyager. Bringing Design to Software. This book contains essays contributed by prominent software and design professionals, interviews with experts, and profiles of successful projects and products. These elements are woven together to illuminate what design is, to identify the common core of practices in every design field, and to show how software builders can apply these practices to produce software that is more satisfying for users. The initial chapters view software from the user's perspective.
Subsequent chapters turn to the designer and the design.
Profiles discussing Mosaic, Quicken, Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines, Microsoft Bob, and other notable applications and projects highlight key points in the chapters. In a sense, all readings are assigned on day one. What this means is that as you work on your design exercises, you will develop questions in your mind. As questions emerge, we encourage you to consult the packet of readings, the edited essays in the Winograd book, as well as the Norman book. Explicit directions for doing so will appear in each exercise assignment.