Home » Posts tagged with "Design"

Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

ISBN13: 9780123740373 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionBill Buxton and I share a common belief that design leadership together with technical leadership drives innovation. Sketching, prototyping, and design are essential parts of the process we use to create new products. Bill Buxton brings design leadership and creativity to Microsoft. Through... 

The Non-Designer’s Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice

Product DescriptionOutlines the essentials of page layout, emphasizing the four concrete principles of design–proximity, alignment, repetition, and contrast–in an illustrated volume that features before and after examples of page design. Original. (All Users)…. More >> The Non-Designer’s Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice  Read More →

Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data

ISBN13: 9780596100162 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionDashboards have become popular in recent years as uniquely powerful tools for communicating important information at a glance. Although dashboards are potentially powerful, this potential is rarely realized. The greatest display technology in the world won’t solve this if you fail to... 

The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses

Product DescriptionAnyone can master the fundamentals of game design – no technological expertise is necessary. The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses shows that the same basic principles of psychology that work for board games, card games and athletic games also are the keys to making top-quality videogames. Good game design happens when you view your game from many different perspectives,... 
Tags: , , ,

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

Product DescriptionAs the application of object technology-particularly the Java programming language-has become commonplace, a new problem has emerged to confront the software development community. Significant numbers of poorly designed programs have been created by less-experienced developers, resulting in applications that are inefficient and hard to maintain and extend. Increasingly, software... 

A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making

ISBN13: 9780321607379 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description“If you are a young designer entering or contemplating entering the UX field this is a canonical book. If you are an organization that really needs to start grokking UX this book is also for you. “  — Chris Bernard, User Experience Evangelist, Microsoft User experience design... 

The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist

Product DescriptionMaking Sense of Design Effective design is at the heart of everything from software development to engineering to architecture. But what do we really know about the design process? What leads to effective, elegant designs? The Design of Design addresses these questions. These new essays by Fred Brooks contain extraordinary insights for designers in every discipline. Brooks pinpoints... 

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

hardcover Product DescriptionFour top-notch authors present the first book containing a catalog of object-oriented design patterns. Readers will learn how to use design patterns in the object-oriented development process, how to solve specific design problems using patterns, and gain a common vocabulary for object-oriented design. Amazon. com ReviewDesign Patterns is a modern classic in the literature... 

Computer Organization and Design, Fourth Edition, Fourth Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface

Product DescriptionThe classic textbook for computer systems analysis and design, Computer Organization and Design, has been thoroughly updated to provide a new focus on the revolutionary change taking place in industry today: the switch from uniprocessor to multicore microprocessors. This new emphasis on parallelism is supported by updates reflecting the newest technologies with examples highlighting... 

The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage

ISBN13: 9781422177808 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionMost companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game-changing innovation like Apple’s iPod, or create an entirely new category like Facebook. Many make genuine efforts to be innovative-they spend on R&D, bring in creative designers, hire innovation consultants....