This issue responds to three critical questions. How is technology reshaping the design process? What can improve the human interface in high-tech products? And what are approaches to designing high-tech environments? Answers include analyses of new digital simulation marketing surveys to research high-tech user profiles. There are tips on designing Web sites and multimedia displays, and case studies on the design of an AT&T cell phone, an RCA interactive TV, the Iomega Zip Drive, and Frank Gehry’s architectural office. 

Articles

Managing Design in a High-Tech Landscape 

Thomas Walton

Seeking Tools for Conviviality: Trends in Design and Technology
Richard Buchanan, Shannon Ford, and Anne Humphreys

Innovations in RCA User Interface Design
Robert J. Logan and Louis E. Lenzi

After You Open the Box: Making Smart Products More Usable, Useful, and Desirable
Sherie R. Bauer and Pamela Mead

Increasing the Usability of High-Tech Products through Design Research
Laurence P. Feldman

Managing Information Technology in Architectural Design
Alfredo Andia

Designing for Real People
James Mueller

Making the Sale with Multimedia
Timothy Bachman

 

Behavioral Design with a New Media Twist

Roberta Chicos and Joanne Fantini

Design for the Internet
Charles Reynolds

 

On-line vs. CD-ROM Technologies: The Shades of Gray in Between

Lorraine Justice

Beyond CAD: Linking Education and Practice
Rita Sue Siegel