Experience Design: Technology for All the Right Reasons
Synthesis lectures on human-centered informaticsPublished 1 January 2010Open access
Marc Hassenzahl
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In his In the blink of an eye, Walter Murch, the Oscar-awarded editor of The English Patient, Apocalypse Now, and many other outstanding movies, devises the Rule of Six -- six criteria for what makes
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