The Art of Interactive Design: A Euphonious and Illuminating Guide to Building Successful Software

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Summary: A lesson in abstraction...
Review: This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to be considered a software developer or who is interested in really making software that users love. Mr. Crawford does a great job of getting right to the heart of software development and what developers SHOULD be thinking about before they start coding.

While this book will primarily appeal to the technical type, sales and marketing people could also benefit quite a bit from the concepts, especially on abstraction.

I did find that the author can lose the reader from time to time with the details of a concept -- because let's face it, this can be pretty boring stuff -- still even just skimming the book and pulling out the core ideas and concepts should give you a lot to think about and better ways of approaching future development projects.