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Make It New: A History of Silicon Valley Design by Barry M. Katz

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5.0

I don't know how I missed "Make It New: A History of Silicon Valley Design", a book from 2015, but it is one of the greatest gems about the history of Silicon Valley, about the birth of multimedia technologies, but in particular about how design, not development, became the center of technological creation. I have read dozens of books on this history, but this book by Barry M. Katz, Professor of Industrial Design and Interaction at the California College of the Arts and a Fellow at IDEO, Inc. It was, without a doubt, one of my most rewarding reads of 2022.

In the blog you will find a structure of the historical evolution - from computer technologies to interaction and game design - with a considerable amount of excerpts (I hope I will not receive any requests to remove the excerpts from online): https://virtual-illusion.blogspot.com/2022/12/make-it-new-history-of-silicon-valley.html