Minimalism Designing Simplicity /

• Main Author: Obendorf, Hartmut. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Series: Human-Computer Interaction Series,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer Science.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-371-6

In this age of complexity, simple, powerful systems are an ideal of interaction design. This book introduces minimalism and helps to make sense of reduction, and in doing so unravels some of the mysteries of simplicity. Minimalism becomes an essential tool to help visualise the simple, and to unveil...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Part 1 Designing for an Age of Complexity
• Minimalism Introduction and Synopsis
• Part II Defining Minimalism
• In Search of Minimalism  Roving in Art, Music and Elsewhere
• Minimalism for Interaction Design: a Proposal
• Part III Rethinking Minimalism
• Minimalism Industrial Design and HCI
• Minimalism, Simplicity and Rules of Design
• Part IV Applying Minimalism
• Detecting the Minimal
• Designing the Minimal
• Part V Reflections on Minimalism
• Minimalism Revisited
• Bibliography
• Index.