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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...
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...
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...
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...