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Web design & usability Books

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We offer an extensive range of Web design & usability related books to meet your needs in today's ever-changing marketplace. Why not browse our titles featured below.

Responsive Design Workflow
In our industry, everything changes quickly, usually for the better. We have more and better tools for creating websites and applications that work across multiple platforms. Oddly enough, design work...
Designing the Conversation

Designing the Conversation

Techniques for Successful Facilitation

Russ Unger, Brad Nunnally, Dan Willis

Paperback, Mar 2013
ISBN13: 9780321886729
ISBN10: 0321886720
Facilitation skills are the foundation of every successful design practice, yet training on this core competency has been largely unavailable–until now. Designing the Conversation: Techniques...
Building Touch Interfaces with HTML5

Building Touch Interfaces with HTML5

Develop and Design Speed up your site and create amazing user experiences

Stephen Woods

Paperback, Mar 2013
ISBN13: 9780321887658
ISBN10: 0321887654
With the rapid adoption of tablet computers and smartphones comes the need for designing touch interfaces. HTML5 is the ideal format for doing so, and Building Responsive Touch Interfaces with HTML5 t...
Don't Make Me Think

Don't Make Me Think

A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
2nd Edition

Steve Krug

Paperback, Sep 2005
ISBN13: 9780321344755
ISBN10: 0321344758
Content Strategy for the Web
When it was first published in 2009, Content Strategy for the Web was an instant classic. It was the catalyst for the global content strategy conversation, helping organizations understand and impleme...
Seductive Interaction Design

Seductive Interaction Design

Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences

Stephen Anderson

Paperback, Jun 2011
ISBN13: 9780321725523
ISBN10: 0321725522
What happens when you’ve built a great website or app, but no one seems to care? How do you get people to stick around long enough to see how your service might be of value? In Seductive Interaction D...
Elements of User Experience, The

Elements of User Experience, The

User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond
2nd Edition

Jesse James Garrett

Paperback, Jan 2011
ISBN13: 9780321683687
ISBN10: 0321683684
The Elements of User Experience cuts through the complexity of user-centered design for the Web with clear explanations and vivid illustrations that focus on ideas rather than tools or techniques. Jes...
Mobile Usability

Mobile Usability

Jakob Nielsen, Raluca Budiu

Paperback, Oct 2012
ISBN13: 9780321884480
ISBN10: 0321884485
How do we create a satisfactory user experience when limited to a small device? This new guide focuses on usability for mobile devices, primarily smartphones and touchphones, and covers such topics as...
Rocket Surgery Made Easy

Rocket Surgery Made Easy

The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems

Steve Krug

Paperback, Dec 2009
ISBN13: 9780321657299
ISBN10: 0321657292
In this how-to companion to Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Steve Krug spells out an approach to usability testing that anyone can easily apply to their own web s...
Undercover User Experience Design
Once you catch the user experience bug, the world changes. Doors open the wrong way, websites don't work, and companies don't seem to care. And while anyone can learn the UX remedies usability testing...
Implementing Responsive Design

Implementing Responsive Design

Building sites for an anywhere, everywhere web

Tim Kadlec

Paperback, Aug 2012
ISBN13: 9780321821683
ISBN10: 0321821688
Users are accessing online content on a multitude of different devices, from mobile phones to desktop computers. This book takes a deep dive into all the considerations that go into a responsive proje...