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Dan Saffer

Dan Saffer
Principal, Kicker Studio

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Dan Saffer is an experience design director for Adaptive Path. Millions of people worldwide use the products he’s designed every day. An international speaker and author, his writing on design has appeared in BusinessWeek and many online publications, while his acclaimed book Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices has been called “a bookshelf must-have for anyone thinking of creating new designs” and has been translated into several languages. His new book Interactive Gestures: Designing Gestural Interfaces will be published by O’Reilly in Fall 2008.

Dan is a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). He received his Master of Design in Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University.

Sessions

10:05am Wednesday, 09/17/2008
Tap is the New Click: Designing Gestural Interfaces
Topic: Design & UX
Location: 1A21 & 22
Dan Saffer (Kicker Studio)
Everywhere you look these days you see interactive gestures: touchscreens on the MTA ticket kiosks and in taxis; people tapping away at their iPhones; and grandmothers holding Wii bowling tournaments. A new era of interaction design is upon us: how will we design for it? This talk is an overview into the usability, documentation, prototyping, communication, and patterns for interactive gestures. Read more.