Design engaging and usable interfaces with more confidence and less guesswork
Learn design concepts that are often misunderstood, such as affordances, visual hierarchy, navigational distance, and the use of color
Get recommendations for specific UI patterns, including alternatives and warnings on when not to use them
Mix and recombine UI ideas as you see fit
Polish the look and feel of your interfaces with graphic design principles and patterns
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: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design, 2nd Edition provides solutions to common design problems that you can tailor to the situation at hand. Download eBook Free »
Designing Mobile Interfaces: Patterns for Interaction Design
Compose pages so that information is easy to locate and manipulate
Provide labels and visual cues appropriate for your app’s users
Use information control widgets to help users quickly access details
Take advantage of gestures and other sensors
Apply specialized methods to prevent errors and the loss of user-entered data
Enable users to easily make selections, enter text, and manipulate controls
Use screens, lights, haptics, and sounds to communicate your message and increase user satisfaction
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.
Mobile design specialists Steven Hoober and Eric Berkman have collected and researched 76 best practices for everything from composing pages and displaying information to the use of screens, lights, and sensors. Each pattern includes a discussion of the design problem and solution, along with variations, interaction and presentation details, and antipatterns. Download eBook Free »
Publisher: O’Reilly Media; Color edition (May 28, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1449336442
ISBN-13: 978-1449336448
eBook Description:
Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, Color Edition
Navigation: get patterns for primary and secondary navigation
Forms: break the industry-wide habits of bad form design
Tables and lists: display only the most important information
Search, sort, and filter: make these functions easy to use
Tools: create the illusion of direct interaction
Charts: learn best practices for basic chart design
Invitations: invite users to get started and discover features
Controls and feedback: help users perform actions, and provide them with timely feedback
Help: integrate help pages into a smaller form factor
Mobile Design Pattern Gallery: UI Patterns for iOS, Android, and More, Color Edition
When you’re under pressure to produce a well designed, easy-to-navigate mobile app, there’s no time to reinvent the wheel. This concise book provides a handy reference to 70 mobile app design patterns, illustrated by more than 400 screenshots from current iOS, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian apps. Download eBook Free »
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