How Long to Read Inventing the Medium

How Long Does it Take to Read Inventing the Medium?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 36 minutes to read Inventing the Medium by Janet H. Murray

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A foundational text offering a unified design vocabulary and a common methodology for maximizing the expressive power of digital artifacts. Digital artifacts from iPads to databases pervade our lives, and the design decisions that shape them affect how we think, act, communicate, and understand the world. But the pace of change has been so rapid that technical innovation is outstripping design. Interactors are often mystified and frustrated by their enticing but confusing new devices; meanwhile, product design teams struggle to articulate shared and enduring design goals. With Inventing the Medium, Janet Murray provides a unified vocabulary and a common methodology for the design of digital objects and environments. It will be an essential guide for both students and practitioners in this evolving field. Murray explains that innovative interaction designers should think of all objects made with bits—whether games or Web pages, robots or the latest killer apps—as belonging to a single new medium: the digital medium. Designers can speed the process of useful and lasting innovation by focusing on the collective cultural task of inventing this new medium. Exploring strategies for maximizing the expressive power of digital artifacts, Murray identifies and examines four representational affordances of digital environments that provide the core palette for designers across applications: computational procedures, user participation, navigable space, and encyclopedic capacity. Each chapter includes a set of Design Explorations—creative exercises for students and thought experiments for practitioners—that allow readers to apply the ideas in the chapter to particular design problems. Inventing the Medium also provides more than 200 illustrations of specific design strategies drawn from multiple genres and platforms and a glossary of design concepts.

How long is Inventing the Medium?

Inventing the Medium by Janet H. Murray is 499 pages long, and a total of 129,241 words.

This makes it 168% the length of the average book. It also has 158% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Inventing the Medium Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 46 minutes to read Inventing the Medium aloud.

What Reading Level is Inventing the Medium?

Inventing the Medium is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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