Author: Dave Lawrence
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1846287952
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Real Website Design is a new methodology that fuses traditional strengths of structured, stepped, and iterative approaches to design and implementation, sharply focused throughout a project on defining and achieving the desired purpose, usability and aesthetic characteristics – which are essential requirements of any website. This book offers practical discussion of new perspectives on usability and aesthetics, and a down-to-earth, structured approach to designing a website or teaching website design.
Balanced Website Design
Author: Dave Lawrence
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1846287952
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Real Website Design is a new methodology that fuses traditional strengths of structured, stepped, and iterative approaches to design and implementation, sharply focused throughout a project on defining and achieving the desired purpose, usability and aesthetic characteristics – which are essential requirements of any website. This book offers practical discussion of new perspectives on usability and aesthetics, and a down-to-earth, structured approach to designing a website or teaching website design.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1846287952
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Real Website Design is a new methodology that fuses traditional strengths of structured, stepped, and iterative approaches to design and implementation, sharply focused throughout a project on defining and achieving the desired purpose, usability and aesthetic characteristics – which are essential requirements of any website. This book offers practical discussion of new perspectives on usability and aesthetics, and a down-to-earth, structured approach to designing a website or teaching website design.
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
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Website Design for Everyone: Create Stunning Websites Without Coding
Author: David Morgan
Publisher: Field Books
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
You don’t need to be a web developer to create a beautiful, functional website! Website Design for Everyone: Create Stunning Websites Without Coding is a step-by-step guide for beginners and non-techies alike to design professional websites with ease. Whether you’re starting a blog, building a portfolio, or launching a business, this book will help you use intuitive tools, platforms, and strategies to design stunning websites—no coding required. Learn the fundamentals of design, explore powerful website builders, and unlock your creative potential with this comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide!
Publisher: Field Books
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
You don’t need to be a web developer to create a beautiful, functional website! Website Design for Everyone: Create Stunning Websites Without Coding is a step-by-step guide for beginners and non-techies alike to design professional websites with ease. Whether you’re starting a blog, building a portfolio, or launching a business, this book will help you use intuitive tools, platforms, and strategies to design stunning websites—no coding required. Learn the fundamentals of design, explore powerful website builders, and unlock your creative potential with this comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide!
The Web Designer's Idea Book Volume 2
Author: Patrick McNeil
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440311188
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Web Design Inspiration at a Glance Volume 2 of The Web Designer’s Idea Book includes more than 650 new websites arranged thematically, so you can easily find inspiration for your work. Author Patrick McNeil, creator of the popular web design blog designmeltdown.com and author of the original bestselling Web Designer’s Idea Book, has cataloged thousands of sites, and showcases the latest and best examples in this book. The web is the most rapidly changing design medium, and this book offers an organized overview of what’s happening right now. Sites are categorized by type, design element, styles and themes, structural styles, and structural elements. This new volume also includes a helpful chapter explaining basic design principles and how they can be applied online. Whether you’re brainstorming with a coworker or explaining your ideas to a client, this book provides a powerful communication tool you can use to jumpstart your next project.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440311188
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Web Design Inspiration at a Glance Volume 2 of The Web Designer’s Idea Book includes more than 650 new websites arranged thematically, so you can easily find inspiration for your work. Author Patrick McNeil, creator of the popular web design blog designmeltdown.com and author of the original bestselling Web Designer’s Idea Book, has cataloged thousands of sites, and showcases the latest and best examples in this book. The web is the most rapidly changing design medium, and this book offers an organized overview of what’s happening right now. Sites are categorized by type, design element, styles and themes, structural styles, and structural elements. This new volume also includes a helpful chapter explaining basic design principles and how they can be applied online. Whether you’re brainstorming with a coworker or explaining your ideas to a client, this book provides a powerful communication tool you can use to jumpstart your next project.
The Business of Design
Author: Keith Granet
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1648960340
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Business of Design debunks the myth that business sense and creative talent are mutually exclusive, showing design professionals that they can pursue their passion and turn a profit. For nearly thirty years, consultant Keith Granet has helped designers create successful businesses, from branding to billing and everything in between. Unlike other business books, The Business of Design is written and illustrated to speak to a visually thinking audience. The book covers all aspects of running a successful design business, including human resources, client management, product development, marketing, and licensing. This timely update on the tenth anniversary of the first edition includes new content on social media, working from home, and understanding and working with different generations, essential tools in today's ultracompetitive marketplace.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1648960340
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Business of Design debunks the myth that business sense and creative talent are mutually exclusive, showing design professionals that they can pursue their passion and turn a profit. For nearly thirty years, consultant Keith Granet has helped designers create successful businesses, from branding to billing and everything in between. Unlike other business books, The Business of Design is written and illustrated to speak to a visually thinking audience. The book covers all aspects of running a successful design business, including human resources, client management, product development, marketing, and licensing. This timely update on the tenth anniversary of the first edition includes new content on social media, working from home, and understanding and working with different generations, essential tools in today's ultracompetitive marketplace.
The Elements of Graphic Design
Author: Alex W. White
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1581157800
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
This very popular design book has been wholly revised and expanded to feature a new dimension of inspiring and counterintuitive ideas to thinking about graphic design relationships. The Elements of Graphic Design, Second Edition is now in full color in a larger, 8 x 10-inch trim size, and contains 40 percent more content and over 750 images to enhance and better clarify the concepts in this thought-provoking resource. The second edition also includes a new section on Web design; new discussions of modularity, framing, motion and time, rules of randomness, and numerous quotes supported by images and biographies. This pioneering work provides designers, art directors, and students--regardless of experience--with a unique approach to successful design. Veteran designer and educator Alex. W. White has assembled a wealth of information and examples in his exploration of what makes visual design stunning and easy to read. Readers will discover White's four elements of graphic design, including how to: define and reveal dominant images, words, and concepts; use scale, color, and position to guide the viewer through levels of importance; employ white space as a significant component of design and not merely as background; and use display and text type for maximum comprehension and value to the reader. Offering a new way to think about and use the four design elements, this book is certain to inspire better design. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1581157800
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
This very popular design book has been wholly revised and expanded to feature a new dimension of inspiring and counterintuitive ideas to thinking about graphic design relationships. The Elements of Graphic Design, Second Edition is now in full color in a larger, 8 x 10-inch trim size, and contains 40 percent more content and over 750 images to enhance and better clarify the concepts in this thought-provoking resource. The second edition also includes a new section on Web design; new discussions of modularity, framing, motion and time, rules of randomness, and numerous quotes supported by images and biographies. This pioneering work provides designers, art directors, and students--regardless of experience--with a unique approach to successful design. Veteran designer and educator Alex. W. White has assembled a wealth of information and examples in his exploration of what makes visual design stunning and easy to read. Readers will discover White's four elements of graphic design, including how to: define and reveal dominant images, words, and concepts; use scale, color, and position to guide the viewer through levels of importance; employ white space as a significant component of design and not merely as background; and use display and text type for maximum comprehension and value to the reader. Offering a new way to think about and use the four design elements, this book is certain to inspire better design. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.
Designing Web Navigation
Author: James Kalbach
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN: 0596553781
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
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 problems of creating a good web navigation system remain. Designing Web Navigation demonstrates that good navigation is not about technology-it's about the ways people find information, and how you guide them. Ideal for beginning to intermediate web designers, managers, other non-designers, and web development pros looking for another perspective, Designing Web Navigation offers basic design principles, development techniques and practical advice, with real-world examples and essential concepts seamlessly folded in. How does your web site serve your business objectives? How does it meet a user's needs? You'll learn that navigation design touches most other aspects of web site development. This book: Provides the foundations of web navigation and offers a framework for navigation design Paints a broad picture of web navigation and basic human information behavior Demonstrates how navigation reflects brand and affects site credibility Helps you understand the problem you're trying to solve before you set out to design Thoroughly reviews the mechanisms and different types of navigation Explores "information scent" and "information shape" Explains "persuasive" architecture and other design concepts Covers special contexts, such as navigation design for web applications Includes an entire chapter on tagging While Designing Web Navigation focuses on creating navigation systems for large, information-rich sites serving a business purpose, the principles and techniques in the book also apply to small sites. Well researched and cited, this book serves as an excellent reference on the topic, as well as a superb teaching guide. Each chapter ends with suggested reading and a set of questions that offer exercises for experiencing the concepts in action.
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN: 0596553781
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
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 problems of creating a good web navigation system remain. Designing Web Navigation demonstrates that good navigation is not about technology-it's about the ways people find information, and how you guide them. Ideal for beginning to intermediate web designers, managers, other non-designers, and web development pros looking for another perspective, Designing Web Navigation offers basic design principles, development techniques and practical advice, with real-world examples and essential concepts seamlessly folded in. How does your web site serve your business objectives? How does it meet a user's needs? You'll learn that navigation design touches most other aspects of web site development. This book: Provides the foundations of web navigation and offers a framework for navigation design Paints a broad picture of web navigation and basic human information behavior Demonstrates how navigation reflects brand and affects site credibility Helps you understand the problem you're trying to solve before you set out to design Thoroughly reviews the mechanisms and different types of navigation Explores "information scent" and "information shape" Explains "persuasive" architecture and other design concepts Covers special contexts, such as navigation design for web applications Includes an entire chapter on tagging While Designing Web Navigation focuses on creating navigation systems for large, information-rich sites serving a business purpose, the principles and techniques in the book also apply to small sites. Well researched and cited, this book serves as an excellent reference on the topic, as well as a superb teaching guide. Each chapter ends with suggested reading and a set of questions that offer exercises for experiencing the concepts in action.
Design Your Imagination
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Publisher: Webguru India
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Publisher: Webguru India
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Static Web Designing
Author: Jitendra Patel
Publisher: Osmora Incorporated
ISBN: 2765925798
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This book is written with the aim of introducing the fundamentals of website designing and website development to the reader. This book offers a concise learning material to enhance knowledge of making website. The book deals with both the theoretical concepts and the practicals. Sufficient exercises have been included for practice. The book is written in a reader-friendly manner both for the students and the teachers. The main topics of focus in this book are using HTML, CSS, FLASH, Macromedia DreamViewer to build static web sites. As the reader of this book, you are our most important critic and commentator. I value your opinion and want to know what I am doing right, what I can do better, what areas you’d like to see me publish in, and any other words of wisdom you’re willing to pass my way.
Publisher: Osmora Incorporated
ISBN: 2765925798
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This book is written with the aim of introducing the fundamentals of website designing and website development to the reader. This book offers a concise learning material to enhance knowledge of making website. The book deals with both the theoretical concepts and the practicals. Sufficient exercises have been included for practice. The book is written in a reader-friendly manner both for the students and the teachers. The main topics of focus in this book are using HTML, CSS, FLASH, Macromedia DreamViewer to build static web sites. As the reader of this book, you are our most important critic and commentator. I value your opinion and want to know what I am doing right, what I can do better, what areas you’d like to see me publish in, and any other words of wisdom you’re willing to pass my way.
Design for Developers
Author: Stephanie Stimac
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1617299472
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Solve common application design and usability issues with flair! These essential design and UX techniques will help you create good user experiences, iterate smoothly on frontend features, and collaborate effectively with designer colleagues. In Design for Developers you will learn how to: Use color, typography, and layout to create hierarchy on a web page Apply color palettes consistently in a user interface Choose the correct typefaces and fonts Conduct user research to validate design decisions Quickly plan a website’s layout and structure In Design for Developers, author Stephanie Stimac shares the unique insights she’s learned as a designer on the Microsoft Developer Experiences team. This one-of-a-kind book provides a developer-centric approach to the essential design fundamentals of modern web applications. You’ll learn how to craft a polished visual design with just color, space, and typeface, and put all your new skills into practice to design a website from scratch. Foreword by Aaron Gustafson. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology Developer-made design decisions can have a real impact on a site’s user experience. Learn to speak design’s language, and you’ll be able to confidently contribute to a design process, collaborate with designer colleagues, and make more informed decisions about how you build your apps. About the book Design for Developers reveals essential design and UX principles every web developer needs to know. You’ll love the book’s developer-centric approach, which demonstrates new ideas with examples from popular sites and user interfaces. Discover insightful techniques for user research, and learn to use color, typography, and layout to create communicative web visuals. By the time you’re done reading, you’ll know it’s true: having good design sense will make you a better web developer! What's inside Conduct user research to validate design decisions Quickly plan a website’s layout and structure Iterate smoothly on frontend features Use color, typography, and layout to create hierarchy on a web page About the reader For web developers familiar with HTML, CSS, and the JavaScript basics. About the author Stephanie Stimac is a design technologist and senior product manager who focuses on building and improving developer experiences. She has previously worked on the Microsoft Edge browser. Table of Contents PART 1 DESIGN BASICS 1 Bridging the gap between design and development 2 Design fundamentals PART 2 USER EXPERIENCE 3 User experience basics 4 User research 5 User experience design PART 3 VISUAL DESIGN ELEMENTS 6 Web layout and composition 7 Enhancing web layout with animation 8 Choosing and working with typography on the web 9 Color theory 10 Building a website PART 4 AFTER VISUAL DESIGN 11 Test, validate, iterate 12 Developer choices and user experience
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1617299472
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Solve common application design and usability issues with flair! These essential design and UX techniques will help you create good user experiences, iterate smoothly on frontend features, and collaborate effectively with designer colleagues. In Design for Developers you will learn how to: Use color, typography, and layout to create hierarchy on a web page Apply color palettes consistently in a user interface Choose the correct typefaces and fonts Conduct user research to validate design decisions Quickly plan a website’s layout and structure In Design for Developers, author Stephanie Stimac shares the unique insights she’s learned as a designer on the Microsoft Developer Experiences team. This one-of-a-kind book provides a developer-centric approach to the essential design fundamentals of modern web applications. You’ll learn how to craft a polished visual design with just color, space, and typeface, and put all your new skills into practice to design a website from scratch. Foreword by Aaron Gustafson. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology Developer-made design decisions can have a real impact on a site’s user experience. Learn to speak design’s language, and you’ll be able to confidently contribute to a design process, collaborate with designer colleagues, and make more informed decisions about how you build your apps. About the book Design for Developers reveals essential design and UX principles every web developer needs to know. You’ll love the book’s developer-centric approach, which demonstrates new ideas with examples from popular sites and user interfaces. Discover insightful techniques for user research, and learn to use color, typography, and layout to create communicative web visuals. By the time you’re done reading, you’ll know it’s true: having good design sense will make you a better web developer! What's inside Conduct user research to validate design decisions Quickly plan a website’s layout and structure Iterate smoothly on frontend features Use color, typography, and layout to create hierarchy on a web page About the reader For web developers familiar with HTML, CSS, and the JavaScript basics. About the author Stephanie Stimac is a design technologist and senior product manager who focuses on building and improving developer experiences. She has previously worked on the Microsoft Edge browser. Table of Contents PART 1 DESIGN BASICS 1 Bridging the gap between design and development 2 Design fundamentals PART 2 USER EXPERIENCE 3 User experience basics 4 User research 5 User experience design PART 3 VISUAL DESIGN ELEMENTS 6 Web layout and composition 7 Enhancing web layout with animation 8 Choosing and working with typography on the web 9 Color theory 10 Building a website PART 4 AFTER VISUAL DESIGN 11 Test, validate, iterate 12 Developer choices and user experience