Helps you explore the design discipline that is behind such products as the iPod and innovative Web sites like Flicer. This book looks at interaction design for the Web, software, and devices. It covers interaction design fundamentals, approaches to designing, design research, and more, and spans all mediums - Internet, software, and devices.

Explains how to incorporate effective domain modeling into the software development process. This book offers readers a systematic approach to domain-driven design, presenting a set of design best practices, experience-based techniques, and fundamental principles that facilitate the development of software projects facing complex domains.

Provides an overview of the requirements of designing for the Web. This book can be used as a reference for (X)HTML and Cascading Style Sheets.

Featuring all of Chip Kidd's top book designs including covers.

This book is intended for everyone in a Web site business, from graphic designers, interaction designers, and software developers to businesspeople. Job titles of the book's readers could include Web Designer, Interaction Designer, Customer-Experience Manager, Usability Researcher, Web Programmer, Software Engineer, Web Business Manager.

A site that really works fulfills your strategic objectives while meeting the needs of your users. This book aims to minimize the complexity of user-centered design for the Web with explanations and illustrations that focus on ideas rather than tools or techniques.

Using the latest research in neurobiology, cognitive science, and learning theory, 'Head First Design Patterns' loads patterns into your brain in a way that sticks. In a way that makes you better at solving software design problems, and better at speaking the language of patterns with others on your team.

This work proposes guidelines for creating intimate homes that serve both spiritual needs and material requirements, covering such topics as specific lifestyles, budgeting, and energy-efficient construction.

Shows you how to implement highly original designs through visual demonstrations of the creative possibilities using markup and CSS. This work uses a visual approach to help you learn coding techniques. It also includes examples of world-class Web sites, photography, and other inspirations that give designers ideas for visualizing their code.

Teaches you the visual design skills you need to create dashboards that communicate clearly, rapidly, and compellingly. This book explains how to: avoid the thirteen mistakes common to dashboard design; provide viewers with the information they need quickly and clearly; and create an aesthetically pleasing viewing experience.

Gets students thinking about efficient object-oriented software design using UML 2.0. The book describes the major UML 2.0 diagram types, what they are intended to do, and the basic notation involved in creating and deciphering them, with a concise format.

Focuses on what programmers need to know about UI (User Interface) design, with numerous examples of how to improve common programs.

A look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning. Using comics to examine the medium itself, the author takes the form of a cartoon character and explains the structure, meaning, and appeal of comics, and provides a running analysis of comics as art, literature, and communication.

A guide to managing creativity in a business environment. It demonstrates how to boost morale, productivity and consumer satisfaction - while having fun in the process.

Presents the effective and practical tools to design great desktop applications, Web 2. 0 sites, and mobile devices.

Describes services designed to help people carry out daily activities in new ways.

Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this book presents ideas of colour experimentation, featuring thirty colour studies, with Albers' unabridged text, demonstrating such principles as colour relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusion of transparency.

Studies in Proportion and Composition. Examples of graphic art and design followed by analytic renderings and overlays to reveal their underlying geometric structure.

No matter how visually appealing or content-packed a Web site may be, if it's not adaptable to a variety of situations and reaching the widest possible audience, it isn't really succeeding. In Bulletproof Web Desing, author and Web designer extraordinaire, Dan Cederholm outlines standards-based strategies for building designs that provide flexibility, readability, and user control--key components