Bill Buxton and I share a common belief that design leadership together with technical leadership drives innovation. Sketching, prototyping, and design are essential parts of the process we use to create new products. Bill Buxton brings design leadership and creativity to Microsoft. Through his thought-provoking personal examples he is inspiring others to better understand t...(展开全部)

比尔·巴克斯顿本是音乐家出身，早在三十多年前便在他的艺术工作中应用计算机，这些早期经验，使他对科学技术的方方面面有了深刻的理解。后来他开始投身设计与研究，重点探讨人机交互以及科技的用户层面。 巴克斯顿曾于20世纪70年代末在多伦多大学从事研究，开发数字乐器，并大胆采用种种新颖的界面，自此一举成名，业界无人不晓。不久，施乐帕克研究中心留意到他的创新设计，让他参与一些前瞻性研究，如协同工作、交互技术以及普式计算等。后来，巴克斯顿又相继在SGI公司和Alias I Wavefront公司担任首席科学家。在此期间，他接触到了许多世界上一流的电影制片人和工业设计师。 目前，比尔·巴克斯顿在微软任职，成为研究的中坚为量。按照比尔·盖茨的介绍，巴克斯顿的主要工作有两方面：一是研究，二是致力将设计融叁公司文化核心。

Design Sketching is an innovative new sketch technique book that has become a highly regarded resource for designers, students and Universities throughout the world. Rather than taking the traditional theoretical approach, it aims to teach and inspire by displaying a broad collection of sketches encompassing the entire design process. Twenty-four talented students from the Umeå...(展开全部)

The Right and the Good, a classic of twentieth-century philosophy by the great scholar Sir David Ross, is now presented in a new edition. Ross's book, originally published in 1930, is the pinnacle of ethical intuitionism, which was the dominant moral theory in British philosophy for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The central concern of the book is with righ...(展开全部)

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO LEARN HOW TO LOVE When you fall in love you may be repeating bad relationship habits that you learned growing up or in a previous unhealthy relationship. No matter what your history, "Getting Love Right" can explain how to build and maintain healthy intimacy, including: * How to recognize if you are in a compulsive, apathetic, or healthy relationship ...(展开全部)

"Andrés Barba needs no advice. He has already created a world that is perfectly realized and has a craft that is inappropriate for a writer of his age." —Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Nothing is simple for the men and women in Andrés Barba's stories. As they go about their lives, they are each tested by a single, destructive obsession. A runner pu...(展开全部)

From the moment it was published almost ten years ago, Elements of User Experience became a vital reference for web and interaction designers the world over, and has come to define the core principles of the practice. Now, in this updated, expanded, and full-color new edition, Jesse James Garrett has refined his thinking about the Web, going beyond the desktop to include inform...(展开全部)

Jesse James Garrett 是用户体验咨询公司Adaptive Path的创始人之一。从用户体验要素“在2000年3月初次发布到网上以来，Jesse的所绘制的这个模型已经被下载了2万多次。Jesse的互联网从业经验包括AT&T、Intel、Boeing、Motorola、Hewlett-packard以及和美国国家公众广播等。他在用户体验领域的贡献包括”视觉词典（the Visual Vocabulary）“，一个为规范信息架构文档而建立的开放符号系统，现在这个系统在全球各个企业中得到广泛的应用。他的个人网站 www.jjg.net 是提供信息架构资源的网站中最受欢迎的一个. 译者：范晓燕。UCDChina发起人,从1997年开始从事互联网相关工作,拥有超过10年的互联网从业经验,现从事用户体验研究.分析,以及互联网产品的设计和管理工作....(展开全部)

Some of our attitudes are fitting, others unfitting. It seems fitting to admire Mandela, but not Idi Amin, and to believe that the Seine flows through Paris, but not that the Thames does. Fitting attitudes get things right. Conor McHugh and Jonathan Way argue that fittingness is the key to understanding the normative domain—the domain of reasons, obligations, and value. They de...(展开全部)

The habits and attitudes associated with critical thinking are transferable to consumer, medical, legal, and general ethical choices. When our surgeon says surgery is needed, it can be life sustaining to seek answers to the critical questions encouraged in Asking the Right Questions This popular book helps bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting informatio...(展开全部)