User Interface Design for Programmers
User Interface Design for Programmers

Author: Avram Joel Spolsky

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1430208570

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Most programmers' fear of user interface (UI) programming comes from their fear of doing UI design. They think that UI design is like graphic design—the mysterious process by which creative, latte-drinking, all-black-wearing people produce cool-looking, artistic pieces. Most programmers see themselves as analytic, logical thinkers instead—strong at reasoning, weak on artistic judgment, and incapable of doing UI design. In this brilliantly readable book, author Joel Spolsky proposes simple, logical rules that can be applied without any artistic talent to improve any user interface, from traditional GUI applications to websites to consumer electronics. Spolsky's primary axiom, the importance of bringing the program model in line with the user model, is both rational and simple. In a fun and entertaining way, Spolky makes user interface design easy for programmers to grasp. After reading User Interface Design for Programmers, you'll know how to design interfaces with the user in mind. You'll learn the important principles that underlie all good UI design, and you'll learn how to perform usability testing that works.

Photoshop Down & Dirty Tricks for Designers
Photoshop Down & Dirty Tricks for Designers

Author: Corey Barker

Publisher: New Riders

Published: 2011-11-15

Total Pages: 792

ISBN-13: 0132947471

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Corey Barker, Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and one of the Photoshop Guys of Photoshop User TV, brings you this handy and inspiring volume in the Down & Dirty Tricks series. Yes, this book is an insane collection of some of the most mind-blowing Photoshop effects you’ve ever seen in one place. Ever wonder how that movie poster was created, or how they created that cool magazine ad, or maybe even how to take a seemingly mundane photo and give it the Hollywood treatment? Or maybe you just want to know how to do some really awesome stuff in Photoshop. Well, then, this book is for you! Whether you’re a designer, artist, or even a photographer, there’s something here for everyone. Moving through these projects, you’ll start to see the potential of Photoshop’s most powerful features and how, with a little experimentation, you can open up a whole new world of dazzling effects. You’ll learn how to: • Create custom brush effects from scratch • See type as a design element • Create Hollywood-style effects that actually look like Hollywood-style effects • Take mundane photos and turn them into something mind-blowing • Create eye-popping commercial effects that clients will drool over • Get creative with 3D in Photoshop CS5 Extended • Create popular advertising effects you’ve seen in movies, on TV, and on the Web • Master dazzling photo effects for designers and photographers alike Plus, there are so many other things throughout the book that you’ll be bursting with new ideas!

Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop 7 in 24 Hours
Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop 7 in 24 Hours

Author: Carla Rose

Publisher: Sams Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780672323881

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"In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will be up and running with Adobe Photoshop 7. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon the previous one, allowing you to learn the essentials of creating and editing images with Photoshop from the ground up." -- Back cover.

Murach's Dreamweaver CC 2014
Murach's Dreamweaver CC 2014

Author: Zak Ruvalcaba

Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781890774776

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With Dreamweaver CC, you can go from staring at a blank screen to launching your first website...without writing any code and without ever leaving the program! All the tools you need are there. But face it, any program that's so comprehensive is going to be complex. So the trick is mastering what all of the program's windows, panels, toolbars, and web technologies do, and how they're interrelated. That's where this book comes in. In contrast to other Dreamweaver books, it integrates all of the skills that you need to build inviting, easy-to-navigate, standards-based websites, using a proven instructional approach that makes all the pieces manageable.

Learning UML 2.0
Learning UML 2.0

Author: Russ Miles

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2006-04-25

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0596009828

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With its clear introduction to the Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0, this tutorial offers a solid understanding of each topic, covering foundational concepts of object-orientation and an introduction to each of the UML diagram types.

About Face
About Face

Author: Alan Cooper

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-09-02

Total Pages: 724

ISBN-13: 1118766571

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The essential interaction design guide, fully revised and updated for the mobile age About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Fourth Edition is the latest update to the book that shaped and evolved the landscape of interaction design. This comprehensive guide takes the worldwide shift to smartphones and tablets into account. New information includes discussions on mobile apps, touch interfaces, screen size considerations, and more. The new full-color interior and unique layout better illustrate modern design concepts. The interaction design profession is blooming with the success of design-intensive companies, priming customers to expect "design" as a critical ingredient of marketplace success. Consumers have little tolerance for websites, apps, and devices that don't live up to their expectations, and the responding shift in business philosophy has become widespread. About Face is the book that brought interaction design out of the research labs and into the everyday lexicon, and the updated Fourth Edition continues to lead the way with ideas and methods relevant to today's design practitioners and developers. Updated information includes: Contemporary interface, interaction, and product design methods Design for mobile platforms and consumer electronics State-of-the-art interface recommendations and up-to-date examples Updated Goal-Directed Design methodology Designers and developers looking to remain relevant through the current shift in consumer technology habits will find About Face to be a comprehensive, essential resource.