Web Directions

Dan Saffer — Designing for Interaction

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• By:Maxine
• August 28, 2006
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Dan Saffer, who will be com­ing to Sydney for the Oz-​​IA Conference and Retreat will also be pre­sent­ing the lat­est Adaptive Path work­shop, Designing for Interaction, for Web Directions on September 26. This excit­ing new work­shop is based on Dan’s recently released book of the same title.

Explore the new design dis­ci­pline that is behind such prod­ucts as the iPod and inno­v­a­tive Web sites like Flickr. While other books on this sub­ject are either aimed at more sea­soned prac­ti­tion­ers or else are too focused on a par­tic­u­lar medium like soft­ware, this guide will take a more holis­tic approach to the dis­ci­pline, look­ing at inter­ac­tion design for the Web, soft­ware, and devices. It is the only inter­ac­tion design book that is com­ing from a design­ers point of view rather than that of an engineer.

The book will be avail­able for pur­chase at dis­count dur­ing the work­shop and at Web Directions. Dan says:

I’ve been pleased with the over­whelm­ingly pos­i­tive reac­tion to Designing for Interaction. Managers are buy­ing copies for every mem­ber of their teams. Universities are adding it to their cur­ricu­lums. And the reviews have been great! Gino Zanhd of Push Button For just called the book “bold and pio­neer­ing work,” so I’m very pleased. I can’t wait to attend Web Directions and hope the work­shop I’m teach­ing there brings the best parts of the book to life, inspir­ing and educating.

For more on Dan and Designing for Interaction, check out

• inter­view in BusinessWeek
• pod­cast interview
• inter­view at the Adaptive Path site

Places are still avail­able for the all day, fully catered work­shop. Sadly in Australia it’s not every day that you get to learn directly from some­one with Dan’s level of expe­ri­ence. Don’t miss out on this one-​​off oppor­tu­nity.

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