I haven't read the book, but I did sit through a presentation about it from HFI and have read a couple of essays.
I think that what he's done is two-fold: A) put some decent packaging around a set of concepts that, as you say, have been part of design forever (though with various levels of realization by practitioners); and B) help bring the ideas a little further out of the fuzziness that they tend to have around them so the discussion can be more convincing and eye-opening. Many of us in this field have already learned about these things through other means (there are many good books about them), but Schaffer seems to help focus the concepts better on our specific issues. ph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43652 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
