Robert Hoekman Jr.
Autor de Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design
Sobre El Autor
Robert Hoekman Jr is a prolific writer and veteran UX strategy consultant. He has written hundreds of articles and several books on design topics, including Designing the Obvious, Designing the Moment, and Web Anatomy (with Jared Spool). Robert has spoken to packed rooms at web conferences all over mostrar más the world. He lives in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. Learn more about him mostrar menos
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Conocimiento común
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- male
- Lugares de residencia
- Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- Biografía breve
- Robert Hoekman, Jr, is a Certified Macromedia Flash MX Designer and has worked with Flash since version 3. He is also the founder and manager of the Flash and Multimedia User Group of Arizona, an official Macromedia User Group (MMUG) with approximately 150 members. In the past several years, Robert has worked in corporate environments as a Multimedia designer, web designer and webmaster, and has designed for audiences ranging from music-memorabilia collectors to executives at Fortune 100 companies.
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This book follows "Designing the Obvious", which is an introduction to Hoekman's philosophy on design. "Designing the Moment" takes more of a case study approach and nuts out many of the contemporary UI design issues.
It is not an encyclopedia or complete reference - you will need to go elsewhere for that. But it does get you in the groove (in a "teach a man to fish.." kind of way)
More than anything, I find Hoekmen's approach to web design just clicks for me. Reading a few pages is great "exercise for the mind", helping you limber up and get in the right mindset when approaching a design problem.
For that reason, it's a book I'd like to always have handy .. definitely a must for the bookshelf!
Wrote more at http://pratalife.blogspot.com/2008/07/designing-obvious-moment-not-thinking.html… (más)
It is not an encyclopedia or complete reference - you will need to go elsewhere for that. But it does get you in the groove (in a "teach a man to fish.." kind of way)
More than anything, I find Hoekmen's approach to web design just clicks for me. Reading a few pages is great "exercise for the mind", helping you limber up and get in the right mindset when approaching a design problem.
For that reason, it's a book I'd like to always have handy .. definitely a must for the bookshelf!
Wrote more at http://pratalife.blogspot.com/2008/07/designing-obvious-moment-not-thinking.html… (más)
Ausgesprochen hilfreiches Buch, welches Webdesigner und Entwickler ermutigt, ihre Anwendungen/Websites so zu entwickeln, dass deren Benutzer sich aufgehoben fühlen, und dass sie schnell zu den von ihnen gewünschten Ergebnissen gelangen und damit mehr Zeit für anderes haben. Also statt eine Anwendung von geeks für geeks zu entwickeln, eine für die 99% AnwenderInnen, die "normal" sind, zu designen.
Not a bad book. Seems strong on identifying problems and good practical advice on setting up your workflow. Some of the solutions and examples chosen seemed weak to me. Off the top of my head the example for "following the banana" is really weak, although it's a principle I really like. Some of the forms ended up seeming really cluttered.
There was also once or twice I almost expected a quotation from Donald Norman but it didn't quite happen.
A nice, fast read that should make you think a bit but if you've read a lot on usability/web design I'm not sure you'll get a lot new....still, not a bad read at all.… (más)
There was also once or twice I almost expected a quotation from Donald Norman but it didn't quite happen.
A nice, fast read that should make you think a bit but if you've read a lot on usability/web design I'm not sure you'll get a lot new....still, not a bad read at all.… (más)
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It is not an encyclopedia or complete reference - you will need to go elsewhere for that. But it does get you in the groove (in a "teach a man to fish.." kind of way)
More than anything, I find Hoekmen's approach to web design just clicks for me. Reading a few pages is great "exercise for the mind", helping you limber up and get in the right mindset when approaching a design problem.
For that reason, it's a book I'd like to always have handy .. definitely a must for the bookshelf!
Wrote more at http://pratalife.blogspot.com/2008/07/designing-obvious-moment-not-thinking.html… (más)