John Ferrara从1999年开始就从事用户体验工作，2001年开始设计电子游戏。他的营养教育类游戏《健康生物》（Fitter Critters）位列2010年Apps for Healthy Kids大赛获奖者前茅，该大赛由米歇尔•奥巴马的Let’s Move！活动赞助，。2011年，他联合建立了专注于创造移动、社交和教育娱乐体验的Megazoid Games。 John是Vanguard的信息架构师，曾在优利系统（Unisys）和通用电气（GE）取得过显著的成就。他有霍夫斯特拉大学传播学学士学位和西彻斯特大学硕士学位。他对类似搜索算法、人类进化、人工智能和20世纪90年代的独立电影等很感兴趣。他坦诚自己是个电子游戏发烧友，但发誓可以做到自律，能随时退出不玩。他和他美丽的妻子和“超女”居住在大费城。

Game design is a sibling discipline to software and Web design, but they're siblings that grew up in different houses. They have much more in common than their perceived distinction typically suggests, and user experience practitioners can realize enormous benefit by exploiting the solutions that games have found to the real problems of design. This book will show you how.

Have you ever stepped back to watch what really goes on when your children play? As psychologist Lawrence J. Cohen points out, play is children's way of exploring the world, communicating deep feelings, getting close to those they care about, working through stressful situations, and simply blowing off steam. That's why "playful parenting" is so important and so successful in b...(展开全部)

Have you ever stepped back to watch what really goes on when your children play? As psychologist Lawrence J. Cohen points out, play is children's way of exploring the world, communicating deep feelings, getting close to those they care about, working through stressful situations, and simply blowing off steam. That's why "playful parenting" is so important and so successful in b...(展开全部)

Although created to fulfill ephemeral needs, great works of graphic design often become memorable cultural icons representing the times and places of their origins. Design Literacy presents ninety-three "object lessons, " specific histories examining the contexts in which well-known, unknown, and anonymous works have made decisive contributions to the evolution of graphic desig...(展开全部)

Basics Design: Design Thinking is an introduction to the process of generating creative ideas and concepts. It indentifies methods and thought processes used by designers in order to start the process that eventually leads to a finished piece of work. This focus on ideas and methods eschews an abstract, academic approach in favor of a useable approach to design as a problem-sol...(展开全部)

Basics Design: Design Thinking is an introduction to the process of generating creative ideas and concepts. It indentifies methods and thought processes used by designers in order to start the process that eventually leads to a finished piece of work. This focus on ideas and methods eschews an abstract, academic approach in favor of a useable approach to design as a problem-sol...(展开全部)

《好玩的数据：信息图与数据可视化设计》将告诉你平面设计师、插画师、艺术家乃至科学家是如何运用可视化设计来表现信息和数据的。平凡的数据在他们的笔下变得活灵活现；好玩的插画清晰地传达信息，同时注重设计的法则：色彩的协调性、图象的关联性、文本的可读性以及主次信息的等级性等。本书分为四大章节：数据统计图、流程图、地图以及指示说明图。书中收录的100多个项目中，有些数据的获得是基于严谨和精确的科学实验，真实可靠；有些则是设计师出于好奇和兴趣而做的假设和试验，玩味十足。在信息碎片化的高速时代，你的案头需要这一本书，告诉你如何玩转数据！

《好玩的数据：信息图与数据可视化设计》将告诉你平面设计师、插画师、艺术家乃至科学家是如何运用可视化设计来表现信息和数据的。平凡的数据在他们的笔下变得活灵活现；好玩的插画清晰地传达信息，同时注重设计的法则：色彩的协调性、图象的关联性、文本的可读性以及主次信息的等级性等。本书分为四大章节：数据统计图、流程图、地图以及指示说明图。书中收录的100多个项目中，有些数据的获得是基于严谨和精确的科学实验，真实可靠；有些则是设计师出于好奇和兴趣而做的假设和试验，玩味十足。在信息碎片化的高速时代，你的案头需要这一本书，告诉你如何玩转数据！