Reviews
The book is from 2004, and in such a new and technological dependent domain as Interaction Design, time matters. Even for a book like this that centres discourse around mere theory, it gets to be completely outdated 15 years after. I believe, in part, this happens because Löwgren and Stolterman chose to ground the discourse in main common sense. The book works as a research project to find the right position of design and interaction designer in the world of HCI, however much of it doesn't stand neither for historical appreciation. Scientifically speaking it would have been advisable to do a work like, to use at least some ethnographic work, do some interviews with people working. By the end of the book, we get the feeling of having read just a bunch of good intentions, probably thoughtful ones by the author, but incapable of standing the test of time.
