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Designing effective interfaces
Author Joel Marsh
Beauty is only one factor when it comes to designing “good” interfaces. More importantly, a good UI has to achieve the user’s goals and the goals of the business. These short lessons tell you how to help and persuade the user to do the most effective thing.What you....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Articulating Design Decisions, 2nd Edition
Author Tom Greever
Talking to people about your designs might seem like a basic skill, but it can be difficult to do well. In many cases, how you communicate with stakeholders, clients, and other nondesigners may be more important than the designs themselves. Because if you can’t get their ....
Release Date 2020/08 -
Author Rocky Nook
Designed for photographers who haven’t memorized every button, dial, setting, and feature on their Sony a7 IV, Rocky Nook’s handy and ultra-portable quick reference Pocket Guide helps you get the shot when you’re out and about.• Confirm that your camera is set up properly with th....
Release Date 2023/05 -
Final Cut Pro X 10.4 - Apple Pro Training Series: Professional Post-Production
Author Brendan Boykin
The Apple-Certified Way to LearnThis fully updated Apple-certified guide presents a real-world workflow from raw media to finished project to demonstrate the features of Final Cut Pro X 10.4 and the practical techniques you will use in editing projects. Using profe....
Release Date 2018/06 -
Introduction to Photoshop: An Essential Guide for Absolute Beginners
Author Kevin Wilson
This full-color book is an essential guide to getting started with Adobe Photoshop. It's packed with tutorials, illustrations, and practical exercises to help you make sense of this complex and powerful software.You'll start with the basics of Photoshop, including an overview of its myriad tools a....
Release Date 2022/12 -
How to start an experience mapping project
Author James Kalbach
What you'll learn-and how you can apply itKicking off a mapping project and don’t know where to begin? You’re not alone. I’m often asked how to get started.Here’s the problem: “experience” defies precise definition. It’s a broad and fuzzy concept. You need to firs....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Design of Multimodal Mobile Interfaces
Author Yael Shmueli-Friedland , Michael Lawo , Brion van Over , Alexander Rudnicky , Asaf D
The “smart mobile” has become an essential and inseparable part of our lives. This powerful tool enables us to perform multi-tasks in different modalities of voice, text, gesture, etc. The user plays an important role in the mode of operation, so multimodal interac....
Release Date 2016/04 -
Author Ashly Raiti , Irene Flores
Your guide to drawing sci-fi characters! From post-apocalyptic Earth to extraterrestrial civilizations, get ready to explore the farthest reaches of your imagination and evoke your own original sci-fi worlds. With Sci-Fi Fashion Art School you will learn to draw eve....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Ten Minute Guide to Conducting a Job Interview
Author William W. Larson
If you have the responsibility of selecting and evaluating job candidates, this book will give you the tools to carry out an effective interview. Based on the philosophy that the best predictor of future success is past performance, the guide teaches you how to anal....
Release Date 2000/11 -
Information Modeling and Relational Databases, 2nd Edition
Author Tony Morgan , Terry Halpin
Information Modeling and Relational Databases, Second Edition, provides an introduction to ORM (Object-Role Modeling)and much more. In fact, it is the only book to go beyond introductory coverage and provide all of the in-depth instruction you need to transform know....
Release Date 2010/07 -
The NFL Draft: How “The Experts” Get It Wrong More Often Than Not, Expensively
Author Martin B. Schmidt
This Element is an excerpt from Stumbling On Wins: Two Economists Expose the Pitfalls on the Road to Victory in Professional Sports (9780132357784) by David J. Berri and Martin B. Schmidt. Available in print and digital formats.Why NFL teams’ conventional approach t....
Release Date 2010/05 -
Google Daydream VR Cookbook: Building Games and Apps with Google Daydream and Unity, First Edition
Author Sam Keene
The Complete, Up-to-Date Guide to Building AR and VR Games Google’s new ARCore and Daydream VR platforms enable you to deliver advanced augmented and virtual reality games and apps on a wide spectrum of modern Android devices. Now for the first time, there’s a comp....
Release Date 2018/09 -
The Designer's Guide to Product Vision: Learn to build your strategic influence to shape the future
Author Laura Fish , Scott Kiekbusch
Today, design is a critical business competency, and designers need to play a leadership role. This guide helps you transform yourself into a strategic designer and take your seat at the table where key decisions are made. Youll master a breakthrough process for creating ....
Release Date 2020/08 -
Author Ivana Markova
A groundbreaking text to the study of textile fibers that bridges the knowledge gap between fiber shape and end usesTextile Fiber Microscopy offers an important and comprehensive guide to the study of textile fibers and contains a unique text that prioritizes a rev....
Release Date 2019/04 -
NOOK Tablet: The Missing Manual
Author Preston Gralla
Combine a world-class e-reader with a top-notch tablet—then add know-how from technology guru Preston Gralla—and you have the perfect recipe for portable entertainment. Packed with clear instructions and helpful illustrations, this book gets you up to speed on the N....
Release Date 2012/03 -
Author Rakesh Baruah
Virtual reality is quickly becoming the next medium to communicate your ideas. Once siloed in make-believe world of science fiction, virtual reality can now touch any aspect of your life. This book shows you how to create original virtual reality content using the....
Release Date 2019/12 -
Author Richard Banfield , C. Todd Lombardo , Trace Wax
Design sprints are a powerful tool for maximizing the chances of making a product or a service that people actually want. This lesson teaches you what design sprints are, when to use them (and when not to), and how to get the most from each sprint with your team.Why....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Adobe InDesign CC Classroom in a Book (2018 release), First Edition
Author Kelly Kordes Anton , Tina DeJarld
Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe InDesign choose Adobe InDesign CC Classroom in a Book (2018 release) from Adobe Press. The 15 project-based step-by-step lessons show users the key techniques for working in ....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Author Galen Gruman
INGN has taken over the industry as the most widely-used page layout program in the world. It features better typography and transparency features, speedier performance, and more overall control than any other layout program. This Bible, written by respected INGN an....
Release Date 2010/06 -
Beginning PBR Texturing: Learn Physically Based Rendering with Allegorithmic’s Substance Painter
Author Abhishek Kumar
Delve into the concepts of physically based rendering (PBR) using Allegorithmic’s Substance Painter. This book covers the integration of PBR textures with various 3D modeling and rendering packages as well as with the Unreal Engine 4 game engine.Beginning PBR Texturing co....
Release Date 2020/05 -
Author Trace Wax , C. Todd Lombardo , Richard Banfield
With more than 500 new apps entering the market every day, what does it take to build a successful digital product? You can greatly reduce your risk of failure with design sprints, a process that enables your team to prototype and test a digital product idea within ....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Enterprise Augmented Reality Projects
Author Enara Artetxe Gonzalez , Jorge R. Lopez Benito
Design end-to-end AR solutions for domains such as marketing, retail, manufacturing, tourism, automation, and trainingKey FeaturesUse leading AR development frameworks such as ARCore, ARKit, and Vuforia across key industries Identify the market potential of AR for ....
Release Date 2019/12 -
Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems
Author Steve Krug
It's been known for years that usability testing can dramatically improve products. But with a typical price tag of $5,000 to $10,000 for a usability consultant to conduct each round of tests, it rarely happens. In this how-to companion to Don't Make Me Think: A ....
Release Date 2009/12 -
Author Michael Freeman
In almost all photography it’s the quality of light that makes or breaks the shot. For professional photographers, chasing the light, waiting for it, sometimes helping it, and finally capturing it is a constant preoccupation — and for some an obsession.Drawing on f....
Release Date 2014/06 -
Author Brian Sawyer , Preston Gralla
When you open the box for your brand-new NOOK Tablet, you'll find Barnes & Noble's latest 7-inch media device to hit the market, a USB cable, power adapter, and a "Quick Start Guide" that tells you how to turn it on. But to really take advantage of all the con....
Release Date 2011/12 -
Adobe Photoshop CS6 Classroom in a Book, Photoshop 13.1 Update for Creative Cloud Members
Author Adobe Creative Team , Brie Gyncild
**Breaking News! Adobe's December 2012 release of Adobe® Photoshop 13.1 for Creative Cloud subscribers included enhancements to the Crop tool, the Liquify filter, as well as the ability to use the Blur Gallery with Smart Objects, save default type styles, copy CSS ....
Release Date 2013/01