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Chapter 4: Nice discussion of environment... not only what it is but how to research user wants and design for those

The three keys to creating a coherent experience are:
1) Identifying the primary use cases for each device.
2)Optimizing the design of each experience to map to those use cases.
3) Maintaining a unified design language (visual and interaction) that scales across a variety of devices.

Putting together my hugo nominations. The husband is being incredibly helpful with the graphic novel and professional artist nominations.

Chapter 3: Good discussion of mobile context and designing for mobile context.

Ch 2 had some good discussion of where interface has been, where it is, and where it could be going. Not sure I agree that NUI will supplant GUI...

Gist: Our mood affects our ability to solve problems and make associations.

"Design choices influces perceptions, elicit different responses, and affect a person's ability to complete a task."