Techdirt Reading List: Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons From Science Fiction
from the design-and-star-trek dept
We're back again with another in our weekly reading list posts of books we think our community will find interesting and thought provoking. Once again, buying the book via the Amazon links in this story also helps support Techdirt.As I was debating what book to showcase this week, I saw that Open Technology Institute Director Kevin Bankston had apparently just recommended a book that sounded so good that I couldn't resist picking up a copy and making it this week's choice: Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction. I haven't even read it yet, but the idea, and the recommendation from Kevin (along with the Amazon reviews) definitely make it sound worthwhile:
Mr. @KevinBankston recommends the book Make It So, about cross-pollination of UI between sci-fi and the tech industry. Any of y'all read it?
— Rob Pegoraro (@robpegoraro) March 9, 2016
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