Scott Riley

Learn to create seamless designs backed by a responsible understanding of the human mind. This book examines how human behavior can be used to integrate your product design into lifestyle, rather than interrupt it, and make decisions for the good of those that are using your product. Mindful Design introduces the areas of brain science that matter to designers, and passionately explains how those areas affect each human’s day-to-day experiences with products and interfaces. You will learn about the neurological aspects and limitations of human vision and perception; about our attachment to harmony and dissonance, such as visual harmony, musical harmony; and about our brain’s propensity towards pattern recognition and how we perceive the world cognitively. In the second half of the book you will focus on the practical application of what you have learned, specific to interaction and interface design. Real-world examples are used throughout so that you can really see how design is impacting our everyday digital experience.Design is a responsibility, but not enough designers understand the human mind or the process of thought. This book explores the key factors involved and shows you how to make the right design choices.

Heroes come in all shapes, sizes, and species!Growing up in Cambodia, Malen knew that dangers from a long-ago war lay hidden underground. Buried explosives forced her and many others to live, farm, and play in fear. As she got older, Malen learned how to use a metal detector to find and safely dispose of these landmines.Five thousand miles away, in Tanzania, Magawa was also learning how to find landmines. But he didn’t need a metal detector—he had his nose. Magawa was a rat, and his smelling superpower and light weight helped him safely sniff out dangerous explosives.After completing his training, Magawa joined Malen in Cambodia, and together they cleared more than a hundred landmines from fields all across the country. A fascinating true story with a hopeful ending and rich back matter from Scott Riley, author of The Floating Field, with Sambat Meas, a Cambodian deminer, and Cambodian American illustrator Huy Voun Lee.

Learn to create seamless designs backed by a responsible understanding of the human mind. This new edition is fully updated and reworked to employ a realistic, challenging, and practical approach to interface design, presenting state of the art scientific studies in behavioral sciences, interface design and the psychology of design. All with modern, up-to-date examples and screenshots. The practical portion of this edition has been completely reworked, giving you the chance to follow along with a real, proven design process that has produced several successful products imbued with the principles of mindful, responsible design.You'll examine how human behavior can be used to integrate your product design into lifestyle, rather than interrupt it, and make decisions for the good of those that are using your product. You will also learn about the neurological aspects and limitations of human vision and perception; about our attachment to harmony and dissonance; and about our brain’s propensity towards pattern recognition and how we perceive the world around us. In the second half of the book, you’ll follow along with the key phases of a design project, implementing what you have learned in an end-to-end, practical setting.Design is a responsibility, but not enough designers understand the human mind or the process of thought. Mindful Design, Second Edition introduces the areas of brain science that matter to designers, and passionately explains how those areas affect each human’s day-to-day experiences with products and interfaces, providing a battle-tested toolkit to help you make responsible design decisions. What You'll LearnReview how attention and distraction work and the cost of attentional switchingUse Gestalt principles to communicate visual groupingEnsure your underlying models make sense to your audienceUse time, progression, and transition to create a compositionCarefully examine controlling behavior through reductionist and behaviorist motivation concepts Apply the theoretical knowledge to practical, mindful interface designWho This Book Is ForThe primary audience for this book is professional designers who wish to learn more about the human mind and how to apply that to their work. The book is also useful for design-focused product owners and startup founders who wish to apply ethical thinking to a team, or when bootstrapping their products. The secondary audience is design students who are either studying a ‘traditional’ visual design course, or a UX/interaction design course who have a desire to learn how they might be able to apply mindful design to their early careers. Finally, a tertiary audience for this book would be tutors involved in teaching design, or peripheral, courses who may wish to incorporate its teachings into their lectures, workshops or seminars.

Honest, painful and triumphant - Grace In The Wilderness is the riveting story of one man’s battle to reclaim his life from a raging drug addiction that began when a naive 19-year old from the suburbs of New York was forced to descend mid-air out the gunner’s door of a U.S. Army chopper into the lush green landscape of Vietnam.Unlike any other account Grace In The Wilderness chronicles the harrowing 30-year long journey of Scott Riley and his twin daughters, Hasha and Libra and the labyrinth they traveled from war to recovery. His fate and theirs, triumph over tragedy, would depend greatly on the fraying wire of his will and the unconditional nature of their love for him.Grace In The Wilderness spans the spectrum of human emotions – tours the inevitable peaks and valleys and witnesses the extreme tests of faith more common to the human experience than not. Gritty and heartwarming at the same time, you will find yourself rooting for this family and reminding yourself of your own struggles in some form or fashion. A tremendous endeavor, Grace In The Wilderness reveals a kaleidoscope of complex, raw emotions that expose just how vulnerable we all are. God has truly worked a miracle in Scott's life and that of his daughters, and by way of their courageous accountings, they provide hope for the many parents, sons, daughters and families still desperately seeking their way.

Honest, painful and triumphant - Grace in the Wilderness is the riveting story of one man’s battle to reclaim his life from a raging drug addiction that began soon after his forced mid-air decent, a as naïve 19 year-old from the suburbs of New York, from the gunner’s door of a U.S. Army chopper into the lush green landscape of Vietnam. Unlike any other account Grace in the Wilderness chronicles the harrowing 30 year long journey of Scott Riley and his twin daughters Hasha and Libra and the labyrinth they traveled from war to recovery. His fate and theirs, triumph over tragedy, would depend greatly on the fraying wire of his will and the unconditional nature of their love for him. Grace in the Wilderness spans the spectrum of human emotions – tours the inevitable peaks and valleys and witnesses the extreme tests of faith more common to the human experience than not. Gritty and heartwarming at the same time you will find yourself rooting for this family, and reminded of your own in some form or fashion. A tremendous endeavor, Grace in the Wilderness reveals a kaleidoscope of complex, raw emotions that expose just how vulnerable we all are. God has truly worked a miracle in Scott's life and that of his daughters Hasha and Libra, and by way of this courageous account they provide hope for the many parents, sons, daughters and families still desperately seeking their way.

Need to get ready for that big test? A formal math professor offers tips and tricks on how to prepare yourself for college level exams, and offers test taking advice to make sure you get the highest grade possible.

A trio robs a bank and makes their getaway on the Virginia section of the Appalachian Trail. The only witness is already hiking the A.T., and when Adam Beeches meets up with the trio at Lost Mountain Shelter, he takes a picture of the Overalls Trio and sends it to his mother, Dorothy Beeches. Dorothy Approaches Teddy Banks at the Big Stone Gap police department and shows him the picture and tells Teddy she's worried about her son. Teddy agrees to go against Captain Redding's orders, and he starts hiking the A.T. in search of Adam Beeches and the Overalls Trio. Can Teddy get to Adam in time and capture the trio, or is there a bigger plan in place that will lead Teddy to places he never imagined? Over 500 miles on the A.T. will provide the answers.

This book is for every person who believes they can start their own business — or improve the company they work You can do it regardless of your age, level of education, or whether your resources are ample or modest. Just keep it simple, admit your own weaknesses, be willing to work long hours, never quit, and learn something from everyone you meet. And remember … karma will get you if you don’t make good ethics part of everything you do.

This book is for every person who believes they can start their own business — or improve the company they work You can do it regardless of your age, level of education, or whether your resources are ample or modest. Just keep it simple, admit your own weaknesses, be willing to work long hours, never quit, and learn something from everyone you meet. And remember … karma will get you if you don’t make good ethics part of everything you do.

The Three Keys is an evidence-based program that contains the most effective evidence-based strategies that help to keep stress and anger levels down. The program is based on the seven biggest factors that contribute to a healthy mind. These factors are broken down in to three main Observation, Relaxation and Reenergise. When implemented, The Three Keys will help you to function better in this chaotic modern world.Part 1 explores unhelpful and unproductive thinking patterns and habits. Most of us are unaware that our thinking is one of the major causes of the most common psychological issues today. Most don’t realise how much control our minds have over us, or how powerful our beliefs are. The COVID-19 pandemic has seen an increase in mental health issues globally and has highlighted and exacerbated the many problems of society like social isolation, lack of exercise, and isolation from the natural world. These issues are all clearly bad for our health. The pandemic has taught us the importance of looking after our psychological well-being.This book provides the tools and the knowledge to help you regulate your nervous system, allowing you to manage stress and to control your anger. Rather than letting your anger and thoughts control you. In addition to managing anger and stress, this book is also useful for people who struggle with anxiety. It offers a unique twist on unhelpful thinking styles (cognitive distortions) with the goal of providing the reader with the how and how to control our thoughts? Why is it important?I initially developed The Three Keys to help myself. It is a mnemonic that helps me to this day keep on top of my work-related stress. How often do we hear about people on the news these days unnecessarily killing themselves and their families due to uncontrollable anger, or domestic violence leading to death? Every time I hear it, I realise the importance of this book and the need to get it out to people in hope that it may help save a life. My own anger level these days is almost non-existent.

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​Attention and Distraction Vision, Perception, and Aesthetics Learning and Memory Expectation, Surprise, and the Musical Interface Reward and Motivation Designing Environments The Design Stack Emotional Mapping The Anatomy of an Interaction Responsible Implementation

After watching the World Cup on television, a group of Thai boys is inspired to form their own team. But on the island of Koh Panyee, in a village built on stilts, there is no open space. The boys can play only twice a month on a sandbar when the tide is low enough. Everything changes when the teens join together to build their very own floating soccer field. The inspiring true story by debut author Scott Riley is gorgeously illustrated by Nguyen Quang and Kim Lien. Perfect for fans of stories about sports, beating seemingly impossible odds, and places and cultures not often shown in picture books. Now in Spanish!