Suguru Ishizakis Improvisational Design: Continuous Responsive Digital

Suguru Ishizakis Improvisational Design Continuous Responsive Digital chatDigital converse is interactive, dynamic and continuous. People working with digital communication (visual designers, human-computer interaction professionals, and software engineers) need a unique set of communicative methods that equal this dynamic flow of digital communication expressions. Ishizaki explores the development of a theoretical framework of an iterative process that meets this need and suggests how designers might example the framework. The concept Ishizaki terms improvisational design is illustrated with five brief case studies in this slim nine-chapter book. Ishizaki, a Senior Staff Engineer at QUALCOMM Incorporated, became interest in this topic over twenty years ago, developed his talk on the topic and presents it here in a sleek and on the loose(p) to read volume. Drawing upon the concept of improvisation in music, theater, and dance, Ishizaki proposes that designers of the systems we use in everyday digital communication might follow the same patterns where ninefold age...