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81. |  Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design By: Khoi Vinh Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 23-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 27-NOV-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design This book is a highly readable, plain-language introduction to
the concepts behind grids in interaction design, as well as a
primer on their practical usage in solving design problems in
online media. It is intended to serve as both an inspirational
reference as well as a useful guide for designing with grid
principles. Its focus will be primarily on web design, but will
also touch upon design for mobile devices, application design and
interaction design at large....
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82. |  The Naked Presenter: Delivering Powerful Presentations With or Without Slides By: Garr Reynolds Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 29-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 23-NOV-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Naked Presenter: Delivering Powerful Presentations With or Without Slides In his first two best-selling books Presentation Zen and
Presentation Zen Design, Garr Reynolds gave readers the
necessary tools for planning and designing successful
presentations. Establishing the framework for beautifully designed
and well-prepared presentations, he now examines the delivery of
the presentation in this handy, beautiful, and simple guide.
The Naked Presenter teaches readers how they can reach an
audience by stripping away all that is unnecessary to get at the
essence of the message. The naked presenter approaches the
presentation task embracing the ideas of simplicity,...
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83. |  By: Kristofer Layon Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 02-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 16-NOV-2010 Slots: 1.0 | This book teaches web designers how to use HTML, CSS, and
JavaScript to build native iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad
applications. By leveraging their existing skills, web
designers can do the same specialized and content-specific work for
new platforms. And by combining these skills with a code framework
that allows them to bypass the need to learn a lot of Objective-C
programming, web designers can focus exclusively on interface and
content design. This results in better products for clients and
their customers, and also saves the designer both time (by avoiding
the need to learn - or...
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84. |  From Idea to Web Start-up in 21 Days: Creating bacn.com By: Jason Glaspey; Scott Kveton Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 29-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 16-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: From Idea to Web Start-up in 21 Days: Creating bacn.com Once upon a time, starting a business meant months of
researching, refining business goals and writing business plans,
talking to investors and banks, negotiating for loans, and raising
money. But today, agile web development practices mean that you can
almost launch on an idea and figure it out as you go. At least
that’s what authors Jason Glaspey and Scott Kveton and their
colleague Michael Richardson did when starting bacn.com, an online
bacon retailer.
In this mouth-watering tale, they describe their process of
starting a business on a shoestring, including the things they did
right...
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85. |  Undercover User Experience Design Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 17-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 14-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 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, personas, prototyping and so on unless your organization
'gets it', putting them into practice is trickier. Undercover User
Experience is a pragmatic guide from the front lines, giving frank
advice on making UX work in real companies with real problems.
Readers will learn how to fit research, ideation, prototyping and
testing into their daily workflow, and how to design good user
experiences...
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86. |  Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning, Second Edition By: Dan M. Brown Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 15-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 09-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning, Second Edition Most discussion about Web design seems to focus on the creative
process, yet turning concept into reality requires a strong set of
deliverables--the documentation (concept model, site maps,
usability reports, and more) that serves as the primary
communication tool between designers and customers. The only guide
devoted to just that topic is now bigger and better.
Combining quick tips for improving deliverables with in-depth
discussions of presentation and risk mitigation techniques, author
Dan Brown shows you how to make the documentation you're required
to provide into the most efficient...
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87. |  Your Digital Afterlife: When Facebook, Flickr and Twitter Are Your Estate, What’s Your Legacy? Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 15-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 30-SEP-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Your Digital Afterlife: When Facebook, Flickr and Twitter Are Your Estate, What’s Your Legacy? Almost without realizing it, we have
stopped saving our memories in photo albums, home movies, and
letters, and have transitioned to almost total digital storage of
such assets and information. Bank statements and credit card bills
that we used to receive by mail and file away are now stored and
accessed on the internet. If we don’t take steps to make all
this information available to our heirs, our personal legacies
could be lost forever. Written by the creators of
thedigitalbeyond.com, this book explains the challenges, and offers
solutions to make sure survivors can have access to this...
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88. |  Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design By: Giles Colborne Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 16-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 26-SEP-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design In a complex world, products that are easy to use win favor with
consumers. This is the first book on the topic of simplicity aimed
specifically at interaction designers. It shows how to drill down
and simplify user experiences when designing digital tools and
applications. It begins by explaining why simplicity is attractive,
explores the laws of simplicity, and presents proven strategies for
achieving simplicity. Remove, hide, organize and displace become
guidelines for designers, who learn simplicity by seeing before and
after examples and case studies where the results speak...
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89. |  Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL By: Larry Ullman Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 21-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 27-AUG-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL In this comprehensive guide to creating an e-commerce Web site
using PHP and MySQL, renowned author Larry Ullman walks you through
every step—designing the visual interface, creating the
database, presenting content, generating an online catalog,
managing the shopping cart, handling the order and the payment
process, and fulfilling the order—always with security and
best practices emphasized along the way. Even if you’re an
experienced Web developer, you’re guaranteed to learn
something new. The book uses two e-commerce site examples—one
based on selling physical products that require...
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90. |  HTML5 Now: A Step-by-Step Video Tutorial for Getting Started Today By: Tantek Çelik Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 20-JUL-2010 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: HTML5 Now: A Step-by-Step Video Tutorial for Getting Started Today HTML5, touted as the most important change to the Web since the
development of CSS, is now widely adopted by browser makers and
supported by numerous hardware devices, including Apple iPhone and
iPad and Google Android. Because implementation is so new,
designers and developers are just cracking the surface as they
begin using the markup language in existing or newly developed Web
sites, and for designing across multiple platforms.
This 2½-hour training video with supporting 96 page reference
guide containing code examples gives you a solid introduction to
HTML5 and explains in detail how...
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91. |  The Business Playground: Where Creativity and Commerce Collide By: Dave Stewart; Mark Simmons Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 13-JUL-2010 Insert Date: 04-AUG-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Business Playground: Where Creativity and Commerce Collide FOREWORD by legendary business icon, Virgin's Richard
Branson
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist
once we grow up."
Pablo Picasso
In today's flat world, business as usual no longer cuts it. Anyone
can compete on quality, price and timing. So what's the secret
weapon that will boost your business over and above the
competition?
Creativity!
But far too often creativity is sidelined and the energy and
excitement that go along side it are subdued.
The Business Playground will change all that!
Prodigious musician, producer and...
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92. |  Vision & Voice: Refining Your Vision in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom By: David duChemin Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 12-JUL-2010 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Vision & Voice: Refining Your Vision in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom What if your image could only communicate one thing: one major
idea, overarching theme, or driving emotion? If you identified
this, you’d discover your vision for that image—the
internal, invisible guiding principle that directs both how you
capture the image and how you develop it in the digital
darkroom.
Without vision, you likely find yourself flailing both behind the
camera and in front of the computer—indiscriminately shooting
and arbitrarily moving sliders in hopes of stumbling upon something
great every once in a while. With vision, you bring direction and
intention to both the...
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93. |  Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 11-JUL-2010 Insert Date: 01-JUL-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Introducing HTML5 Suddenly, everyone’s talking about HTML5, and ready or
not, you need to get acquainted with this powerful new development
in web and application design. Some of its new features are already
being implemented by existing browsers, and much more is around the
corner.
Written by developers who have been using the new language for the
past year in their work, this book shows you how to start adapting
the language now to realize its benefits on today’s browsers.
Rather than being just an academic investigation, it concentrates
on the practical—the problems HTML5 can solve for you right
away. By...
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94. |  Talent Is Not Enough: Business Secrets For Designers, Second Edition By: Shel Perkins Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 22-APR-2010 Insert Date: 16-JUN-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Talent Is Not Enough: Business Secrets For Designers, Second Edition The best business guide for design
professionals just got better! This revised and expanded second
edition includes everything designers need—besides
talent—to turn their artistic success into business success.
You’ll find information on key issues facing designers from
freelancing to managing established design firms. A strong visual
focus and to-the-point text take the fear factor out of learning
about thorny business realities like staffing, marketing,
bookkeeping, intellectual property, and more. These smart business
practices are essential to success in graphic, Web, and...
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233 Tips and Tricks for Recruiting Users as Participants in Usability Studies Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 19-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 28-APR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 233 Tips and Tricks for Recruiting Users as Participants in Usability Studies Participant recruiting for usability studies is the unglamorous
foundation for all user testing. Having a systematic recruiting
program in place will make a huge difference in the amount of
usability testing conducted in your organization and the quality of
your recruits with an immediate impact on the quality of the test
results. This report from the Nielsen Norman Group tells you how to
set up and manage a recruiting program, how to get the right users
for specific tests, and how to deal with the users you have
recruited. It also presents advice on when to outsource to a
recruiting agency...
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Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 19-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 24-APR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | One of the virtues of the Web is its ability to facilitate
customization. Web technology allows organizations to move beyond
one-size-fits-all interfaces and products, allowing users to define
and design their own experiences. Custom homepages and Web based
design-it-yourself processes are numerous and users appreciate the
concept of customized experiences. This report from the Nielsen
Norman Group addresses:
Usability of Interface Customization Web sites (custom
homepages)
Usability of Product Customization Web sites (custom
stationery)
Guidelines for improved customization task...
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Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 19-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 24-APR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | This report conducted by the Nielsen Norman Group is based on
empirical observations of actual user behavior, as people
accessed messages and postings from more than 120 companies,
government agencies, and non-profit organizations on Twitter,
Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn, as well as these
organizations’ RSS feeds. Most of this research was conducted
in the United States, with a smaller number of users studied in the
U.K. and Australia. This report addresses:
Usability of postings to timeline-based social media, where a
company’s messages appear intermixed in a stream or feed...
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98. | 
Intranet Design Annual 2009: The Year’s Ten Best Intranets Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 19-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 24-APR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Intranet Design Annual 2009: The Year’s Ten Best Intranets This report from the Nielsen Norman Group reviews the designs
and usability of ten intranets that were chosen from a much larger
number of nominated designs. The report is richly illustrated with
241 full-color screenshots, giving readers the unique opportunity
to see good intranet designs that are usually hidden behind a
firewall. These intranets represent big companies with large
amounts of documents and mission-critical applications such as
sales force support. But most of the lessons from these winning
designs apply to smaller companies as well.
The bulk of the report consists of...
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99. |  The CSS Detective Guide: Tricks for solving tough CSS mysteries By: Denise R. Jacobs Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 02-APR-2010 Insert Date: 10-APR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The CSS Detective Guide: Tricks for solving tough CSS mysteries One of the toughest challenges novice CSS developers face is
when seemingly perfect code doesn’t translate into a
perfectly rendered browser page—and with all the different
browsers available today, this happens all too often. The CSS
Detective Guide aims to help, by teaching real world
troubleshooting skills. You’ll learn how to track clues,
analyze the evidence, and get to the truth behind CSS mysteries.
These aren’t pat solutions, but rather strategies for
thinking about CSS. Author Denise Jacobs begins by going over the
basics of CSS with a special emphasis on common causes of...
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100. |  By: Larry Ullman Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 23-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 23-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Effortless Flex 4 Development First the Web was all static content (HTML). Then as more was
expected of sites, server-side technologies like PHP became
necessary. But now Rich Internet Applications (RIA) put a lot of
the functionality back in the Web browser, so a server-side
technology alone will no longer suffice. Developers who have been
doing server-side work for years need to broaden their horizons to
provide a rich client-side experience. Enter Effortless Flex 4
Development by bestselling author Larry Ullman.
Flash-Flex is a powerful duo for providing a rich, client-side
experience. The first third of this book...
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