Designing for Touch

A Book Apart #14

by Josh Clark

Le tactile introduit une dimension physique dans des designs qui étaient jusqu'à présent strictement virtuels et pose un nouveau défi : comment ce design se prend-il en main ? Web designers, il vous faut désormais penser autrement, et Josh Clark est là pour vous guider dans le Far West des écrans tactiles. Apprenez des principes d'ergonomie, de mise en page et de dimensionnement pour tous les écrans, découvrez une boîte à outils gestuelle émergente, ainsi que des tactiques pour accélérer les interactions et améliorer la "découvrabilité" des gestes. Au final, concevez des interfaces qui permettront de toucher - étirer, froisser, déplacer, retourner - les informations elles-mêmes. Le futur est entre vos mains... Avec une préface de Brad Frost

Genres: Design, Nonfiction, Reference, Programming

Paperback

First published October 29, 2015

About the author

Josh Clark is principal of Big Medium, an agency that helps complex organizations design for what’s next. Josh has over 30 years of experience in emerging technology, user experience, and design innovation.

Josh is co-author with Veronika Kindred of Sentient Design: Crafting Intelligent Interfacees with AI (Rosenfeld Media, 2026). The book gives designers and product leaders the know-how to create AI-powered interfaces—dashboards that design themselves, apps that manifest on demand, agents that just get it done, and much more.

Josh speaks around the world about digital design and emerging technology. He is author of many books, including Designing for Touch (A Book Apart) and Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps (O’Reilly).

Before the internet swallowed him up in the 1990s, Josh was a producer of national PBS television. He shared his three words of Russian with Mikhail Gorbachev, interviewed the cabinet secretaries of nine US presidents, and was head writer for a primetime game show. In 1996, Josh created the “Couch-to-5K” (C25K) running program, which has helped millions of skeptical exercisers take up running.

Reviews

[Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Informative and entertaining. I've been fortunate enough to hear Josh Clark speak on this at An Event Apart and this book was like an extension of that. His speaking personality definitely comes through in the text.

[Natalía Papadopoúlou · Rating 4 out of 5]

The only thing that I wish after this book is for somebody to update it for 2020.

[Ani · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting insight into how people use their devices and how to improve the experience. Unfortunately I found the book and information repetitive.

[Adam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Designing for Touch is good. It covers a lot without getting too heavy. I'd recommend if you're new to designing touch-friendly interfaces. It's a nice read. I flew through it and picked up a few nice tidbits. Came away with some potentially interesting gesture ideas.

[Chris Elkjar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great quick little overview of the challenges with more complex touch interactions.