Explore a microinteraction’s structure: triggers, rules, feedback, modes, and loops
Learn the types of triggers that initiate a microinteraction
Create simple rules that define how your microinteraction can be used
Help users understand the rules with feedback, using graphics, sounds, and vibrations
Use modes to let users set preferences or modify a microinteraction
Extend a microinteraction’s life with loops, such as “Get data every 30 seconds”
It’s the little things that turn a good digital product into a great one. With this 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?
Through vivid, real-world examples from today’s devices and applications, author Dan Saffer walks you through a microinteraction’s essential parts, then shows you how to use them in a mobile app, a web widget, and an appliance. You’ll quickly discover how microinteractions can change a product from one that’s tolerated into one that’s treasured. Download eBook Free »
Dynamically generate web page elements from your data and choose visual encoding rules to style them
Create bar charts, scatter plots, pie charts, stacked bar charts, and force-directed layouts
Use smooth, animated transitions to show changes in your data
Introduce interactivity to help users explore data through different views
Create customized geographic maps with data
Explore hands-on with downloadable code and over 100 examples
Create and publish your own interactive data visualization projects on the Web even if you have little or no experience with data visualization or web development. It’s easy and fun with this practical, hands-on introduction. Author Scott Murray teaches you the fundamental concepts and methods of D3, a JavaScript library that lets you express data visually in a web browser. Along the way, you’ll expand your web programming skills, using tools such as HTML and JavaScript.
This step-by-step guide is ideal whether you’re a designer or visual artist with no programming experience, a reporter exploring the new frontier of data journalism, or anyone who wants to visualize and share data. Download eBook Free »
Grome Terrain Modeling with Ogre3D, UDK, and Unity3D
A comprehensive guide for terrain creation
Step-by-step walkthrough of Grome 3.1 and toolset
Export terrains to Unity3D, UDK, and Ogre3D
Grome Terrain Modeling with Ogre3D, UDK, and Unity3D
Grome is an environmental modeling package that makes the creation and editing of large terrain areas an easy task. Grome has the ability to take huge datasets suitable for MMOs and simulations and this marks it as a welcome tool in a developer’s toolbox.
Grome Terrain Modeling with Ogre3D, UDK, and Unity3D shows you how to get to grips with this powerful terrain construction tool. This book walks you through how to create, edit, and export terrains to Unity3D, UDK, and Ogre3D.
Grome Terrain Modeling with Ogre3D, UDK, and Unity3D will guide you in creating new Grome terrain projects, splitting terrain into multiple zones, adding textures and ground features, and exporting your creations into a game engine. Download eBook Free »
Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences
Create game mechanics to trigger a range of emotions and provide a variety of play
Explore several options for combining narrative with interactivity
Build interactions that let multiplayer gamers get into each other’s heads
Motivate players through rewards that align with the rest of the game
Establish a metaphor vocabulary to help players learn which design aspects are game mechanics
Plan, test, and analyze your design through iteration rather than deciding everything up front
Learn how your game’s market positioning will affect your design
Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences
Ready to give your design skills a real boost? This eye-opening book helps you explore the design structure behind most of today’s hit video games. You’ll learn principles and practices for crafting games that generate emotionally charged experiences a combination of elegant game mechanics, compelling fiction, and pace that fully immerses players. Download eBook Free »
SolidWorks is the leading 3D CAD program, and previous editions of this book have sold more than 33,000 copies
Covers necessary information to give beginners a solid foundation in the software, including part and assembly modeling and 2D drawing techniques
Addresses a wide range of advanced topics not treated in other books, including best practices, search criteria, Pack-and-Go, and other file management concepts
Includes tutorials on both beginning and advanced topics, with videos; sample part, assembly, and drawing files; and before-and-after example files available on the companion website
SolidWorks is the leading 3D solid modeling software used in computer-aided design. It’s powerful but not simple. This complete guide introduces beginners to the software but then goes far beyond, covering numerous details that advanced users have requested. Beginners will learn not only how the software works but why, while more experienced users will learn all about search criteria, Pack-and-Go, other file management concepts, and much more. A valuable companion website contains before and after real-world parts and assemblies along with many example files used in the text. Additionally, the text of the book is augmented by video tutorials with author voice-over which can be found on the website. Download eBook Free »
Smashing UX Design: Foundations for Designing Online User Experiences
Guides to when and how to use the most appropriate UX research and design techniques such as usability testing, prototyping, wire framing, sketching, information architecture & running workshops
How to plan UX projects to suit different budgets, time constraints and business objectives
Case studies from real UX projects that explain how particular techniques were used to achieve the client’s goals
Checklists to help you choose the right UX tools and techniques for the job in hand
Typical user and business requirements to consider when designing business critical pages such as homepages, forms, product pages and mobile interfaces as well as explanations of key things to consider when designing for mobile, internationalization and behavioural change
Smashing UX Design: Foundations for Designing Online User Experiences is the complete UX reference manual. Treat it as the UX expert on your bookshelf that you can read from cover-to-cover, or to dip into as the need arises, regardless of whether you have ‘UX’ in your job title or not. Smashing UX Design: Foundations for Designing Online User Experiences is a practical reference manual for UXers, designers, developers, and product managers to refer to as the UX expert on their bookshelf. Download eBook Free »
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