Main entry:

Lupton, Ellen, author.

Title & Author:

Beautiful users : designing for people / Ellen Lupton, with contributions by Thomas Carpentier and Tiffany Lambert.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press : Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, [2014]

Description:

141 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Beautiful Users, organized by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by, and held at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, December 12, 2014-April 26, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Caroline Baumann -- Prologue : Measuring man -- Designing for people / Ellen Lupton -- Project : The measure(s) of man: Architects' data add-on / Thomas Carpentier -- Case studies : Handle ; Mobility ; Interface ; Revenge of the user -- Glossary : Users speak / Tiffany Lambert.

Summary:

In the mid-twentieth century, Henry Dreyfuss-widely considered the father of industrial design-pioneered a user-centered approach to design that focuses on studying people's behaviors and attitudes as a key first step in developing successful products. In the intervening years, user-centered design has expanded to undertake the needs of differently abled users and global populations as well as the design of complex systems and services. Beautiful Users explores the changing relationship between designers and users and considers a range of design methodologies and practices, from user research to hacking, open source, and the maker culture.

ISBN:

9781616892913 (alk. paper)
1616892919 (alk. paper)
9781616893842 ebook
1616893842 ebook

Subject:

Design Human factors Exhibitions.
Design Facteurs humains Expositions.
Design Human factors.
Design.
Människokroppen.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Carpentier, Thomas contributer.
Lambert, Tiffany contributer.
Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
Cooper-Hewitt Museum host institution, organizer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288230
Call No.: BIB 229856
Status: Available