Book with fun practical exercises to help people develop a vocabulary to imagine, conceptualise, NOVEL UI metaphors, widgets, affordances, patterns, taxonomies, navigation schemas & understanding their connection with social practices.
HCI/IxD stuff literature is most focused on usability and user research, rendering workflows on the screen.
And most UI books are focused just on the visual/cosmetic aspects, almost like graphic designing for UI as opposed to helping conceiving of novel interface concepts and paradigms.
UI as button labelling, rectangle sequencing to model/represent a workflow/existing activity
VS
UI designing where invention of a visual abstraction isn't just a model of an activity in real life but instead it's invention of a new social practice, or activity
Not lot of books for latter
Have written bit more on the kind of UI designing I'm talking about in this twitter thread
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