Deconstructing Product Design

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Deconstructing Product Design is written by William Lidwell and published by Rockport Publishers. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 161673602X (ISBN 10) and 9781616736026 (ISBN 13).

What makes a product successful? How it looks? The way it functions? Its ease of use? Or do factors like price and marketing dominate? In a quest to find answers to these questions, Deconstructing Product Design engages readers in a process of critically analyzing a diverse collection of 100 innovative products, from well-known classics to contemporary objects of desire. This book aims to support critical thinking about design, facilitate discovery of patterns of success (and failure) across products, and enable designers to apply lessons learned to their own design work. Experts from multiples design disciplines contribute commentary, including: —Robert Blaich, industrial design —Jill Butler, graphic design —Alan Cooper, technology design —Brock Danner, architecture —Kimberly Elam, graphic design —Donald Emmite, design history —Larimie Garcia, graphic arts —Scott Henderson, product design —Kritina Holden, human factors —Robert Kingslyn, graphic design —Jon Kolko, interaction design —Lyle Sandler, experience design Continue the deconstruction at http://www.deconstructingproductdesign.com.