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Designing interfaces [electronic book] : patterns for effective interaction design / Jenifer Tidwell, Charles Brewer and Aynne Valencia.

By: Tidwell, Jenifer [author].
Contributor(s): Brewer, Charles (Digital product designer) [author] | Valencia, Aynne [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Sebastopol, CA : O’Reilly Media, Inc., [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Edition: Third edition.Description: online resource (xviii, 572 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781492051961 (paperback); 1492051969 (paperback); 9781492051916 (eBook).Subject(s): User interfaces (Computer systems) | Graphical user interfaces (Computer systems) | Human-computer interactionDDC classification: 005.437 Online resources: Access eBook
Contents:
Designing for people -- Organizing the content: information architecture and application structure -- Getting around: navigation, signposts, and wayfinding -- Layout of screen elements -- Visual style and aesthetics -- Mobile interfaces -- Lists of things -- Doing things: actions and commands -- Showing complex data -- Getting input from users: forms and controls -- User interface systems and atomic design -- Beyond and behind the screen.
Subject: "Designing good application interfaces isn't easy now that companies need to create compelling, seamless user experiences across an exploding number of channels, screens, and contexts. In this updated third edition, you'll learn how to navigate through the maze of design options. By capturing UI best practices as design patterns, this best-selling book provides solutions to common design problems. You'll learn patterns for mobile apps, web applications, and desktop software. Each pattern contains full-color examples and practical design advice you can apply immediately. Experienced designers can use this guide as an idea sourcebook, and novices will find a road map to the world of interface and interaction design."-- Amazon.com
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Notes
eBook MTU Online eBook 005.437 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available MTU Cork Module MMED 9029 - Core reading.
eBook MTU Online eBook 005.437 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available MTU Cork Module MMED 9029 - Core reading.
eBook MTU Online eBook 005.437 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available MTU Cork Module MMED 9029 - Core reading.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Designing good application interfaces isnâ??t easy now that companies need to create compelling, seamless user experiences across an exploding number of channels, screens, and contexts. In this updated third edition, youâ??ll learn how to navigate through the maze of design options. By capturing UI best practices as design patterns, this best-selling book provides solutions to common design problems.

Youâ??ll learn patterns for mobile apps, web applications, and desktop software. Each pattern contains full-color examples and practical design advice you can apply immediately. Experienced designers can use this guide as an idea sourcebook, and novices will find a road map to the world of interface and interaction design.

Understand your users before you start designing Build your softwareâ??s structure so it makes sense to users Design components to help users complete tasks on any device Learn how to promote wayfinding in your software Place elements to guide users to information and functions Learn how visual design can make or break product usability Display complex data with artful visualizations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Designing for people -- Organizing the content: information architecture and application structure -- Getting around: navigation, signposts, and wayfinding -- Layout of screen elements -- Visual style and aesthetics -- Mobile interfaces -- Lists of things -- Doing things: actions and commands -- Showing complex data -- Getting input from users: forms and controls -- User interface systems and atomic design -- Beyond and behind the screen.

"Designing good application interfaces isn't easy now that companies need to create compelling, seamless user experiences across an exploding number of channels, screens, and contexts. In this updated third edition, you'll learn how to navigate through the maze of design options. By capturing UI best practices as design patterns, this best-selling book provides solutions to common design problems. You'll learn patterns for mobile apps, web applications, and desktop software. Each pattern contains full-color examples and practical design advice you can apply immediately. Experienced designers can use this guide as an idea sourcebook, and novices will find a road map to the world of interface and interaction design."-- Amazon.com

MTU Cork Module MMED 9029 - Core reading.

Electronic reproduction.: ProQuest LibCentral. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jenifer Tidwell has been designing and building user interfaces for industry for more than a decade. She has been researching user interface patterns since 1997, and designing and building complex applications and web interfaces since 1991.