From the category archives:

Interface

Review – Designing Web Navigation

by erica on September 7, 2008

Designing Web Navigation is subtitled “Optimizing the User Experience”, and therefore drew my attention immediately. Written by James Kalbach, and published by O’Reilly, this book is also elegeantly designed and in full-colour with examples throughout. Once again the book itself conveys it’s own message – that user experience is holistic and that products must not [...]

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Review – Designing Interfaces

by erica on September 7, 2008

Designing Interfaces, by Jennifer Tidwell, is appropriately subtitled “Patterns for Effective Interaction Design”. This book is an excellent introduction for the beginning designer as well as a wonderful reference. The book itself is elegeantly designed and beautiful to behold, with carefully chosen colours and typography, well-written and enjoyable copy, and lovely full-colour screenshots and examples.
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Web Interface Design & Personal Musings

by erica on July 8, 2008

What strikes me as I cruise job sites is that many software developers want designers, yet I don’t as often see web developers who realize the importance of good web interface design. As the line between application and web blurs, what elements are carried across? How does usability change when we compare a piece of [...]

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