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	• Web Application Design Patterns (Interactive Technologies) Pawan Vora Morgan Kaufmann, 2009 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Not what I expected

This book is well organized. It contains useful information from a user advocate and graphic artist perspective (much of it is just common sense). It is not at all what I expected. I am disappointed; I was misled by the title.

As an application developer - when I think of design patterns, I think of relationships and interactions between classes and objects in the code (i.e. Factory Pattern, Decorator Pattern, Observer Pattern, etc). The 'Security' and 'User Authentication' topics in this book are all about how it looks on the page. This book is about UI design. The title does not fit with the content - in my opinion.

If a web application were a car - this book would be all about paint jobs. There is nothing 'under the hood'. It has nice pictures but has little to offer in terms of content for a serious application developer.

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An India based Software Entrepreneur's Perspective on Web Design Patterns

As a software entrepreneur in India since 1993, my perspective of this book and its applicability for the Indian software industry at large. As a country with a billion people which is going electronic in almost every touch-point possible from banking, to utility payment, to tax payment, to filing tax returns, to buying books, to e-governance and more: our software developers equipped with good engineering degrees are producing applications for these C2B areas with little or no understanding of usability or UI Design. This coupled with the fact that these same software engineers produce and maintain software for almost half the developed western world, the need for a pragmatic book on UI Design which can act as a self help manual for our bright software engineers has been felt by many of us.

Design Patterns as an approach to writing good software code is now pervasive across the Indian IT Industry and well understood and made popular by Eric & Elisabeth Freeman and Kathy Sierra & Bert Bates through their book Head First Design Patterns. This "Pragmatic Metaphor" of Design Patterns for building good software has revolutionized the way our Indian Engineers build good Software. Unlike the earlier books on User Interface Design which have had the traditional "User Manual" approach to UI Design where one was expected to read the book from the first page to the last before either becoming a guru on UI Design or dying of boredom, Pawan Vora's Web Application Design Pattern's "Cook-Book" approach to identifying and using the right UI Design Pattern for the UI Design Problem at hand is very useful for our software engineers who are already familiar with the Design Patterns approach to software development.

The team at Elsevier / Morgan Kaufmann Publishers should seriously consider releasing an Indian Edition of the book which can be adopted and used by our vast army of software engineers. For the larger good of our Indian software industry and the quality of the software we produce, I would be happy to evangelize this book as a must-refer for every software engineer in India. My best wishes to Mr. Vora and Elsevier for their efforts in producing a pragmatic and useful book in an area of good and bad UI Design that touches (& sometimes frustrates) our lives, everyday.

Swapnesh Patel
CEO & Co-founder - Omniscient Software Pvt. Ltd.
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Tour de force!

Vora has done an awesome job in detailing the whats, whys, and hows of developing software products. The discipline that patterns create in development and the power for creating outstanding user experiences makes this book an invaluable resource. Vora shows how, by imbuing good user interface design principles into application design patterns, can reduce time to delivery and returns investment in a short period of time.

The examples are tremendous and allow for easy abstraction to common problems. I highly recommend this book.

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Resource for practitioners

Overall, this book is a tremendous resource for those who design for a living or find themselves responsible for a product or service and would like to understand how good design patterns used by others can make their product and service better. I found it useful as a refresher resource to catch up on elements of design that have evolved over the years to solve questions that have plagued the field. It also sparked genuine design ideas for me to generalize to questions I am charged with solving through good design. In short, it is an excellent reference that is both intellectually engaging and visually appealing. I recommend for anyone who is in our field.

Gavin Lew
Managing Director
User Centric, Inc.
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A Treasure Trove of Tips for Web Professionals

User experience experts, information architects, and the like will want
to have a copy of "Web Application Design Patterns" as an important
addition to their knowledge base. Web developers and companies feeling
they can "handle it themselves in-house" will find this book an
absolutely critical must-have. It is obvious that years of experience
and research have gone into the production of this valuable reference.

Written at a college / professional level, Vora's style remains,
however, as user-friendly as his design solutions. Presented in a
straightforward PROBLEM --> SOLUTION --> WHY --> HOW format, this 429
page volume skips the editorializing and pontificating; instead, it provides
concrete examples and explanations of underlying concepts. This
book is a veritable encyclopedia of solutions to today's software
interface design issues.

Colorful screen shots grace almost every page, helping the reader
quickly understand problems and resolutions with real-world examples.
Along with the expected discussions of everyday mechanisms such as
forms, user authentication, and navigation schemes, "Web Application
Design Patterns" forges on with detailed examinations of rapidly
evolving areas such as Rich Internet Applications (RIA), social
networking sites and more.

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Ever notice that-in spite of their pervasiveness-designing web applications is still challenging? While their benefits motivate their creation, there are no well-established guidelines for design. This often results in inconsistent behaviors and appearances, even among web applications created by the same company.

Design patterns for web applications, similar in concept to those for web sites and software design, offer an effective solution. In Web Application Design Patterns, Pawan Vora documents design patterns for web applications by not only identifying design solutions for user interaction problems, but also by examining the rationale for their effectiveness, and by presenting how they should be applied.

. Design interfaces faster, with a better rationale for the solutions you choose.
. Learn from over more than 100 patterns, with extensive annotation on use and extension.
. Take a short-cut into understanding the industry with more than 500 full-color screenshots and a web site for help, discussion, and a collection of additional patterns.

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