Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword : What is interaction design ? / by Gillian Crampton Smith -- Preface -- Introduction : two personal stories -- The mouse and the desktop : interviews with Doug Engelbart, Stu Card, Tim Mott, and Larry Tesler -- My PC : interviews with Bill Atkinson, Paul Bradley, Bill Verplank, and Cordell Ratzlaff -- From the desk to the palm : interviews with John Ellenby, Jeff Hawkins, Bert Keely, Rob Haitani, and Dennis Boyle -- Adopting technology : interviews with David Liddle, Mat Hunter, Rikako Sakai, David Kelley, and Paul Mercer -- Play : interviews with Bing Gordon, Brendan Boyle, Brenda Laurel, and Will Wright -- Services : interviews with Takeshi Natsuno, Live/Work, and Fran Samalionis -- The Internet : interviews with Terry Winograd, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Steve Rogers, and Mark Podlaseck -- Multisensory and multimedia : interviews with Hiroshi Ishii, Durrell Bishop, Joy Mountford, and Bill Gaver -- Futures and alternative nows : interviews with Tony Dunne and Fiona Raby, John Maeda, and Jun Rekimoto -- People and prototypes : the author's own ideas about how to design interactions, with help from his friends and colleagues Jane Fulton Suri and Duane Bray.

Introducing us to 40 influential designers who have shaped our interaction with technology, this book tells the story of the author's own design process and explains the focus on people and prototypes that has been successful at IDEO - how the needs and desires of people can inspire innovative designs.