I would've given it a higher rating if he hadn't pulled so liberally from the graduate curriculum of Carnegie Mellon's Master of Design program without citing his sources. A single mention of the school in the introduction, and a single mention of the architect/pioneer of the philosophy that the MDes programs espouse, is not at all adequate.

Otherwise, though, the stuff he wrote on his own is a pretty good primer of interaction and user experience design.

Great introduction to the interaction design.

One of the more substantive introductions to user experience design that I've read. I especially appreciated the section on strategy, a important element of design often neglected by UX books.

A Consultants Design Process Overview Book - Full Stack. Intro to tools.

I found this to be a very top-level overview. If it's your first book about IXD, that might be good, but if you have read many others you can probably skip it.

First half was really pretty good. It gets pretty watered down after a while, explaining simple concepts that any first year designer would know.

An okay intro to design principles. I especially liked the interviews with designers sprinkled throughout. Overall, though, not as helpful a book as it could be.

Design dell'interazione. Creare applicazioni intelligenti e dispositivi ingegnosi con l'interaction design by Dan Saffer (2007)

An easy read and presented so much better than most of the textbooks I've read on the matter.

Not really that great of a design book to read. Just a listing of techniques and workflows.

I was impressed by the organization and conceptual clarity of this book. Saffer also provided multiple perspectives and indicated when a point of view was controversial. I appreciated his final chapter on ethics. I've never seen a design book that deals with the ethical responsibility of designers before.

Dan Saffer is a Senior Interaction Designer for Adaptive Path, one of the premier interaction design firms in the world. The book is an easy read and provides great insight to anyone wanting to learn more about interaction design.