books about: designing     books:       Designing Interactions19 reviews Bill Moggridge The MIT Press, 2007 A keeper! If you are interested in Interaction Design, Human Computer Interaction or would like to learn more about how our technology reached where it is today in regards to interacting with us, i highly recommend this one for you. Great collection of interviews. very clear and well written.             Designing Design12 reviews Kenya Hara Lars Müller Publishers, 2008 The Bible for Modern Designers This books uses a very rich and poetic language to define modern concepts of design. It makes you fall in love with design all over again.             Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team8 reviews Alina Wheeler Wiley, 2009 Content Rich, Easy to Read This is the first book to read for any branding firm. Alina presents the whole branding process and all its philosophies in such a clear and succinct way. Our firm has used it as a roadmap to develop our own process and continue to add value to our clients.             Designing Interfaces54 reviews Jenifer Tidwell O'Reilly Media, 2005 This book is great for anyone designing any type of interface Jenifer Tidwell, an interaction designer and software developer for The Mathworks, makes it easy for people from all different designing backgrounds (beginner to expert) to learn how to design an effective and "good" interface in her book "Designing Interfaces." Her book is presented in two parts; the first section is a broad look at all types of interfaces: 1. What Users Do 2. Organizing the ...             Designing Your Perfect House13 reviews William J. Hirsch Jr. AIA Dalsimer Press, Inc, 2008 Highly recommended, even if you aren't building a house! As other reviewers have noted, this is a great book to help someone walk through designing their own home. I found myself in a position where I had to come up with potential floor plans for an awkwardly-shaped lot, and this book was the best resource I found. However, this book could also be titled "How to come up with and/or appreciate good floor plans." Hirsch presents a pretty simple ...             Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition)131 reviews Jeffrey Zeldman, Ethan Marcotte New Riders Press, 2009 Shows Importance of Web Standards During the prehistoric era of the internet, there was no real guideline for making a website. It was done how one pleased: put a table here and there and viola, you have your layout. But tables were not meant for layout, they were meant for tabular data. Examples such as these are seen in "Designing with Web Standards," and how they can lead to the detriment of the webmaster. While "Designing ...             Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions13 reviews Bill Scott, Theresa Neil, ... O'Reilly Media, 2009 Super detailed, very informative I really enjoyed Designing Web Interfaces. If you plan on making a move from being just a visual designer to a user interface designer this is definitely a must read, more details than you imagine there could be about web interfaces!             Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles78 reviews Ray Daniels Brewers Publications, 2000 Great book for the serious home/craft brewer This book is amazingly well written and immediately applicable for either the home brewer or small craft brewery. It's not for beginners wanting to copy down some easy recipes. Instead, it is a great compilation of equations, tables and facts that will greatly help the consistency, quality and authenticity of the beer you produce. So if you are looking for a book that will help you construct a ...             Designing Disney12 reviews John Hench Disney Editions, 2009 A good introduction This book is a beautiful little introduction to the way Disney creates appealing designs. It's not an in-depth text, but that's not what it claims to be. Instead, the author gives a nicely structured overview of the various facets of design used to make Disney's parks and attractions more appealing. I read it because they are masters at what they do -- look at the crowds that keep coming back ...             Designing with Succulents43 reviews Debra Lee Baldwin Timber Press, Incorporated, 2007 Excellent tool for landscape designers and their clients It is a valuable and important tool in my work as landscape designer in San Diego County. Since our recent water restrictions and the increasing awareness that water, too, is a resource that needs to be used prudently, succulents are growing in appreciation in the public. To my knowledge there is no other book available that does not only show beautiful succulents but also enticing landscapes ...             Designing for Interaction: Creating Innovative Applications and Devices (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter)14 reviews Dan Saffer New Riders Press, 2009 Excellent for Aspiring Interaction Designers I am an aspiring interaction designer and this book by Dan Saffer really nails it for me in terms of laying down a coherent and well-written overview and framework. This book is essential to the interaction design community in that it defines clearly what interaction design is (and is not) in this early stage of this new industry. It is also essential reading for all beginning or aspiring ...             Designing Social Inquiry12 reviews Gary King, Robert O. Keohane, ... Princeton University Press, 1994 All the advantages and disadvantages of statistical reasoning applied to qualitative political science This book takes the basic logic of statistical inference and applies it to qualitative research design in political science. As several reviewers note, it is not a book on statistics, nor indeed does it pretend to be. However, it extends the logic of statistical research design into nonquantitative research. That much it does very well. By thinking about how to test hypotheses and how to ...             Designing Dynamic Organizations: A Hands-on Guide for Leaders at All Levels7 reviews Jay Galbraith, Diane Downey, ... AMACOM, 2001 Simple and Pragmatic Jay Galbraith is a well-respected, research-based practitioner in the field of Organizational Design. Companies of all sizes and industries have been using the STAR model as a guide to thinking systemically when designing their organizations. I personally have been using this model as an internal OD consultant/practitioner over the last decade. This book's material continues to be very relevant ...             Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design28 reviews Robert Hoekman Jr. New Riders Press, 2006 I want my whole team to read this!! I love this book for it's brevity, clarity and simplicity. While everything in this book is obvious and common sense, it is still amazingly useful. You should not underestimate your minds ability to ignore and distort such obvious things, especially when we are emotionally invested in the product. Reading this book is helpful when starting or reviewing a product.             Designing with Type: The Essential Guide to Typography36 reviews James Craig, William Bevington, ... Watson-Guptill, 2006 designing with type Wonderful book & great price. My daughter needed it for class this is her first year in college & it was to expensive             Designing Your Organization: Using the STAR Model to Solve 5 Critical Design Challenges2 reviews Amy Kates, Jay R. Galbraith Jossey-Bass, 2007 Comprehensive and lots of ideas/guidance This book from Amy Kates/Jay Galbraith provides a useful addition to their earlier work Designing Dynamic Organisations.I found the chapter on solving the centralisation-decentralisation dilemma very helpful, and the coverage of organisation for innovation provides a wide range of pointers for the the reader who is dealing with this topic.The first chapter provides a review of the key concepts ...             Designing and Assessing Courses and Curricula: A Practical Guide3 reviews Robert M. Diamond Jossey-Bass, 2008 this is what it says - a practical guide I bought this book at a time when I felt that course design needed more structure than we traditionally gave it. I bought other related titles at the same time. However, this is the book that I found myself returning to each time I had to deal with some aspect of course design or evaluation. I have now moved on to working on overall quality of delivery in our college. Once again I found this ...             Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care1 review Richard M. J. Bohmer Harvard Business Press, 2009 Both business and health libraries need this approach Amidst the debate of blossoming health care costs and health care systems that don't work is a focus from a physician and business school professor who argues that energy could better be placed into understanding the basic nature of care and how to better design, manage and deliver it. Health care is a process of applying best practices to patient interests: chapters survey how business ...             Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses (Jossey Bass ...11 reviews L. Dee Fink Jossey-Bass, 2003 title doesn't do it justice This is a wonderfully comprehensive look at research in the field of course design and instruction. I work with faculty and the research that this book provides for the work that we do is crucial. I am able to cite research and underscore the importance of what I have been teaching then all along. The title of this book makes it seem less important than it really is. This book is about ...             Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services7 reviews Kim Goodwin Wiley, 2009 Finally, a comprehensive book on the UX process I have been looking for a book like this for over 10 years. Designing for the Digital Age puts forth a comprehensive framework for ux design and development. I have a large library of ux books that go into great detail on the the various phases of the UX process, they are all great, but it is up to the reader to blend a process from all of these disparate subjects. Kim's book is a logical ...              search for books application, applications, approach, assessing, centered, challenges, creating, curricula, designing, education, essential, experiences, hands-on, human-centered, identity, innovative, integrated, interaction, interactions, interfaces, management, organization, organizations, practical, principles, services, significant, standards, succulents, typography books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen music: Everyday we recommend Still the greatest Chinese epic movie home  impressum - about us