Brendan Dawes

A collection of Dawes’ interaction design projects, presented in a highly personal style with lots of beautiful pictures. Dawes makes a point of being "uneducated" and of not looking at design books and web sites, which means that some of the projects are quite innovative whereas others are independent reiterations of rather well-known ideas. The really important message of the book, however, lies in the tinkering attitude of exploring software (and some simple hardware) technologies from the inside out. You build something simple, you look at how it works, it inspires you to an interesting variation, you learn what you need to build it, and so on. This way of sketching in the implementation material reminds us we don't always have to "study first, then design."… (meer)