Designing Interfaces

Jenifer Tidwell has been designing and developing user interfaces for the industrial sector for over a decade. Since 1997, she has been researching user interface patterns and designing and building complex applications and web interfaces.

Despite all of the UI toolkits available today, designing good application interfaces remains difficult. This best-selling book is one of the few trustworthy resources for navigating the maze of design options. Designing Interfaces provides solutions to common design problems that you can tailor to the situation at hand by capturing UI best practices and reusable ideas as design patterns.

This revised edition includes mobile app and social media patterns, as well as web applications and desktop software. Each pattern includes full-color examples as well as practical design advice that you can put to use right away. Among the best books on interaction design, Designing Interfaces can be used as a sourcebook of ideas for experienced designers, while novices will find a road map to the world of interface and interaction design.

• Create more engaging and usable interfaces with less guesswork.
• Learn about design concepts that are frequently misunderstood, such as affordances, visual hierarchy, navigational distance, and color use.
• Get recommendations for specific UI patterns, including alternatives and warnings about when they should not be used.
• Mix and match UI concepts as you see fit.
• Using graphic design principles and patterns, you can improve the look and feel of your interfaces.

Author: Jenifer Tidwell

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449379702

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