Despite all of the UI toolkits available today, it’s still not easy to design good application interfaces. This bestselling book is one of the few reliable sources to help you navigate through the maze of design options. By capturing UI best practices and reusable ideas as design patterns, Designing Interfaces provides solutions to common design problems that you can tailor to the situation at hand.

Want to learn how to create great user experiences on today’s Web? In this book, UI experts Bill Scott and Theresa Neil present more than 75 design patterns for building web interfaces that provide rich interaction. Distilled from the authors’ years of experience at Sabre, Yahoo!, and Netflix, these best practices are grouped into six key principles to help you take advantage of the web technologies available today.

With hundreds of thousands of mobile applications available today, your app has to capture users immediately. This book provides practical techniques to help you catch—and keep—their attention. You’ll learn core principles for designing effective user interfaces, along with a set of common patterns for interaction design on all types of mobile devices.

It’s the little things that turn a good digital product into a great one. With this full color practical book, you’ll learn how to design effective microinteractions: the small details that exist inside and around features. How can users change a setting? How do they turn on mute, or know they have a new email message?

This book explores how digital branding can be harnessed, and measured, so we can look at the true ROI of our efforts and understand how they impact brand.

Welcome to our multi-device world, a world where a user’s experience with one application can span many devices—a smartphone, a tablet, a computer, the TV, and beyond. This practical book demonstrates the variety of ways devices relate to each other, combining to create powerful ensembles that deliver superior, integrated experiences to your users.

Le tactile introduit une dimension physique dans des designs qui étaient jusqu’à présent strictement virtuels et pose un nouveau défi : comment ce design se prend-il en main ? Web designers, il vous faut désormais penser autrement, et Josh Clark est là pour vous guider dans le Far West des écrans tactiles.

Découvrez le responsive web design et apprenez à concevoir des sites qui anticipent et répondent aux besoins de vos utilisateurs. Dans cette seconde édition de son ouvrage phare, Ethan Marcotte décrit les principes qui sous-tendent le responsive design – grilles fluides, images flexibles et media queries – et démontre comment proposer une expérience de qualité, quelle que soit la taille de l’écran.

Bringing together the results of more than 300 new design studies, an understanding of people, knowledge of hardware and software capabilities, and the author’s practical experience gained from 45 years of work with display-based systems, this book addresses interface and screen design from the user’s perspective.

In UI is Communication, Everett McKay explains how to design intuitive user interfaces by focusing on effective human communication. A user interface is ultimately a conversation between users and technology. Well-designed user interfaces use the language of UI to communicate to users efficiently and naturally.