Provides insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike. This book discusses why people really leave Web sites; making sites usable and accessible; and, surviving executive design whims. It offers help for those whose bosses, clients, stakeholders, and marketing managers insist on doing the wrong thing.

Offers advice on creating user-friendly interface designs - whether they're delivered on the Web, a CD, or a smart devices like a cell phone. This book expresses solutions to common UI design problems as a collection of patterns - each one containing concrete examples, recommendations, and warnings.

A guide to interactive system design. The author demonstrates that many interface paradigms are dead ends, and that to make computers easier to use requires new approaches. He explains how to effect needed changes, offering specific interface ideas for software designers, developers, and product managers.

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.

Describes some of the most important design rules and techniques that are drawn from the rational, functionalist design aesthetic seen in modern graphic design, industrial design, interior design, and architecture - and applies them to various graphical user interface problems experienced in commercial software development.

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

Introduces us to 40 influential designers who have shaped our interaction with technology. This book tells the story of the author's own design process and explains the focus on people and prototypes that has been successful at IDEO - how the needs and desires of people can inspire innovative designs. It is illustrated with more than 700 images.

Written by the author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web , this book examines the convergence of information and connectivity. It discusses the Internet, GIS, and other network technologies that make unlimited findability possible, and explores how the melding of these innovations impacts society.

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

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.

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 compendium of original articles and essays from leading thinkers in the computer industry, including Alan Kay, Nicholas Negroponte, and Don Norman, surveys the range of issues relating to interface design.

Technologies have a life cycle, and they must change as they gain maturity. Alas, the computer industry thinks it is still in its rebellious years, exalting in technical complexity. In this book, the author shows why the computer is difficult to use, and why this is so fundamental to its nature.

Covers improvements in best practices and advances in the world of browsers. This work demonstrates how web standards are driving search engine friendliness ( findability ) and Web 2.0 applications that have reinvigorated the medium and the online marketplace. It also includes techniques to make CSS layouts work better across multiple browsers.

Defensive design is like defensive driving brought to the Web. Good site defense can make or break the customer experience. This book shows the right (and wrong) ways to get defensive, offers guidelines to prevent errors and rescue customers if a breakdown occurs.It also shows you how to evaluate and improve your own site's defensive design.

Shows information architects, designers, and web site developers how to build large-scale and maintainable web sites that are easy to navigate. This book discusses blueprints, wireframes and the role of diagrams in the design phase. It addresses emerging technologies while maintaining its focus on fundamentals.

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. With the right design strategy you can use this social interaction to get people signing up, coming back regularly, and bringing others into the ..