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Web Design Books
Build your taste profile and get better suggestions. You've rated 0 of 15 books. Want more suggestions? Launch Quick Rate- Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
By Steve Krug, 2005
ISBN 0321344758
Usability design is one of the most important--yet often least attractive--tasks for a Web developer. In Don't Make Me Think , author Steve Krug lightens up the subject with good humor and excellent, to-the-point examples. The title of the book is its chief personal design premise.
- Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning
By Dan Brown, 2006
ISBN 0321392353
Most discussion about Web design seems to focus on the creative process, yet turning concept into reality requires a strong set of deliverables—the documentation (concept model, site maps, usability reports, and more) that serves as the primary communication tool between designers and...
- Designing for the Social Web
By Joshua Porter, 2008
ISBN 0321534921
No matter what type of web site or application you’re building, social interaction among the people who use it will be key to its success. They will talk about it, invite their friends, complain, sing its high praises, and dissect it in countless ways.
- Designing Web Usability
By Jakob Nielsen, 1999
ISBN 156205810X
Users experience the usability of a web site before they have committed to using it and before making any purchase decisions. The web is the ultimate environment for empowerment, and he or she who clicks the mouse decides everything. Designing Web Usability is the definitive guide to usability from...
- The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
By Dan Roam, 2008
ISBN 1591841992
A bold new way to tackle tough business problems—even if you draw like a second grader When Herb Kelleher was brainstorming about how to beat the traditional hub-and- spoke airlines, he grabbed a bar napkin and a pen. Three dots to represent Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio.
- Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design
By Jenifer Tidwell, 2005
ISBN 0596008031
Designing a good interface isn't easy. Users demand software that is well-behaved, good-looking, and easy to use. Your clients or managers demand originality and a short time to market. Your UI technology -- web applications, desktop software, even mobile devices -- may give you the tools you need...
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
By Louis Rosenfeld, 2006
ISBN 0596527349
The post-Ajaxian Web 2.0 world of wikis, folksonomies, and mashups makes well-planned information architecture even more essential. How do you present large volumes of information to people who need to find what they're looking for quickly? This classic primer shows information architects...
- Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience
By James Kalbach, 2007
ISBN 0596528108
Thoroughly rewritten for today's web environment, this bestselling book offers a fresh look at a fundamental topic of web site development: navigation design. Amid all the changes to the Web in the past decade, and all the hype about Web 2.0 and various "rich" interactive technologies, the basic...
- The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web
By Jesse James Garrett, 2002
ISBN 0735712026
Smart organizations recognize that Web design is more than just creating clean code and sharp graphics. A site that really works fulfills your strategic objectives while meeting the needs of your users. Even the best content and the most sophisticated technology won't help you balance those goals...
- Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices
By Dan Saffer, 2006
ISBN 0321432061
Explore the new design discipline that is behind such products as the iPod and innovative Web sites like Flickr. While other books on this subject are either aimed at more seasoned practitioners or else are too focused on a particular medium like software, this guide will take a more holistic...
- The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites
By Douglas K. van Duyne, 2006
ISBN 0131345559
After a comprehensive tutorial covering the foundations of good Web site design, you will move on to discover the thirteen major Web design pattern groups. These patterns solve recurring design problems and help design teams avoid reinventing the wheel. Patterns range from creating a solid...
- Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action
By Robert Hoekman Jr., 2008
ISBN 0321535081
The trick to great design is knowing how to think through each decision so that users don't have to. In Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action, Robert Hoekman, Jr., author of Designing the Obvious, presents over 30 stories that illustrate how to put good design principles to...
- Prioritizing Web Usability
By Jakob Nielsen, 2006
ISBN 0321350316
In 2000, Jakob Nielsen, the world’s leading expert on Web usability, published a book that changed how people think about the Web—Designing Web Usability (New Riders). Many applauded. A few jeered. But everyone listened. The best-selling usability guru is back and has revisited his classic ...
- Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design
By Robert Hoekman Jr., 2006
ISBN 032145345X
Designing the Obvious belongs in the toolbox of every person charged with the design and development of Web-based software, from the CEO to the programming team. Designing the Obvious explores the character traits of great Web applications and uses them as guiding principles of application...
- Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World: Adaptive Path on Design
By Peter Merholz, 2008
ISBN 0596516835
To achieve success in today's ever-changing and unpredictable markets, competitive businesses need to rethink and reframe their strategies across the board. Instead of approaching new product development from the inside out, companies have to begin by looking at the process from the outside in...
