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Author Jenifer Tidwell
Designing a good interface isn't easy. Users demand software that is well-behaved, good-looking, and easy to use. Your clients or managers demand originality and a short time to market. Your UI technology -- web applications, desktop software, even mobile device....
Release Date 2005/11 -
S60 Smartphone Quality Assurance: A Guide for Mobile Engineers and Developers
Author Saila Laitinen
S60 is the world leading smartphone platform. It has gained this position due to the huge developer base innovating on top of the S60 platform, the Product Creation Community who can provide expertise in different device program phases and tasks and the user-friendl....
Release Date 2007/03 -
Designing Effective Speech Interfaces
Author Dean T. Barker , Susan Weinschenk
Master the critical knowledge you need to design speech-enabled applicationsIt's not just a far-fetched gizmo straight out of a sci-fi movie anymore. Speech interface technology, which allows a user to communicate with computers via voice instead of a keyboard or a....
Release Date 2000/02 -
Mastering Voice Interfaces: Creating Great Voice Apps for Real Users
Build great voice apps of any complexity for any domain by learning both the how's and why's of voice development. In this book you’ll see how we live in a golden age of voice technology and how advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language processing (NLP), and related tec.... -
Author Jennifer Balogh , James P. Giangola , Michael H. Cohen
This book is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to voice user interface (VUI) design. The VUI is perhaps the most critical factor in the success of any automated speech recognition (ASR) system, determining whether the user experience will be satisfying or frus....
Release Date 2004/02 -
Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work
Author Leslie Perlow
Does it have to be this way?Can’t resist checking your smartphone or mobile device? Sure, all this connectivity keeps you in touch with your team and the office—but at what cost?In Sleeping with Your Smartphone, Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow reveal....
Release Date 2012/05 -
Humane Interface, The: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
Author Jef Raskin
"Deep thinking is rare in this field where most companies are glad to copy designs that were great back in the 1970s. The Humane Interface is a gourmet dish from a master chef. Five mice!" --Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen Norman Group Author of Designing Web Usability: The....
Release Date 2000/03 -
Building Tablet PC Applications
Author Philip Su , Rob Jarrett
The authoritative guide to creating applications for the Tablet PC—direct from the Microsoft Tablet PC software development team!The introduction of faster chips and hardware has recently enabled the first workable, tablet-sized, pen-based PCs. Building Tablet PC Ap....
Release Date 2002/09 -
User Interface Design for Mere Mortals
Author Eric Butow
User Interface Design for Mere Mortals takes the mystery out of designing effective interfaces for both desktop and web applications. It is recommended reading for anyone who wants to provide users of their software with interfaces that are intuitive and easy-to-use....
Release Date 2007/05 -
Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action
Author Robert Hoekman Jr.
The trick to great design is knowing how to think through each decision so that users don't have to. In Designing the Moment: Web Interface Design Concepts in Action, Robert Hoekman, Jr., author of Designing the Obvious, presents over 30 stories that illustrate how....
Release Date 2008/04 -
Author Brian Fling
Mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers three to one worldwide, yet little information is available for designing and developing mobile applications. Mobile Design and Development fills that void with practical guidelines, standards, techniques, and be....
Release Date 2009/08 -
Author Christian Crumlish , Erin Malone
From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common challenges you'll face when starting a social website. Desi....
Release Date 2009/09 -
Hardware/Firmware Interface Design
Author Gary Stringham
Why care about hardware/firmware interaction? These interfaces are critical, a solid hardware design married with adaptive firmware can access all the capabilities of an application and overcome limitations caused by poor communication. For the first time, a b....
Release Date 2009/10 -
Author Eric Berkman , Steven Hoober
With hundreds of thousands of mobile applications available today, your app has to capture users immediately. This book provides practical techniques to help you catch—and keep—their attention. You’ll learn core principles for designing effective user interfaces, al....
Release Date 2011/11 -
Author Theresa Neil , Bill Scott
Want to learn how to create great user experiences on today's Web? In this book, UI experts Bill Scott and Theresa Neil present more than 75 design patterns for building web interfaces that provide rich interaction. Distilled from the authors' years of experience ....
Release Date 2009/01 -
Author Tali Mendelberg , Christopher F. Karpowitz
Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? The Silent Sex shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group intera....
Release Date 2014/08 -
Antenna Design For Mobile Devices
Author Zhijun Zhang
Written by an antenna engineer turned professor who has worked at Apple, Nokia and Amphenol, Antenna Design for Mobile Devicesis a comprehensive guide for fresh and intermediate engineers involved in antenna design. The book instructs readers through all aspects of ....
Release Date 2011/05 -
Author Diana MacDonald
Understanding UI patterns is invaluable to anyone creating websites for the first time. It helps you make connections between which tools are right for which jobs, understand the processes, and think deeply about the context of a problem. This is your concise guid....
Release Date 2019/06 -
Designing Voice User Interfaces
Author Cathy Pearl
Voice user interfaces (VUIs) are becoming all the rage today. But how do you build one that people can actually converse with? Whether you’re designing a mobile app, a toy, or a device such as a home assistant, this practical book guides you through basic VUI desig....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Designing Interfaces, 2nd Edition
Author Jenifer Tidwell
Despite all of the UI toolkits available today, it's still not easy to design good application interfaces. This bestselling book is one of the few reliable sources to help you navigate through the maze of design options. By capturing UI best practices and reusable ....
Release Date 2010/12 -
Author Bob Lautenbach , Walter Quesada
Get a step-by-step guide for developing voice interfaces for applications and devices connected to the Internet of Things. By allowing consumers to use natural human interactions, you can avoid awkward methods of input and interactivity to provide them with elevate....
Release Date 2017/10 -
Digital Interface Design and Application
Author Jonathan A. Dell
Many computer applications require microprocessors to reliably interconnect and communicate with other peripherals in order to perform their intended functions. Interface design, which includes the development of the methods and processes by which two or more compo....
Release Date 2015/08 -
The Best Interface Is No Interface: The Simple Path to Brilliant Technology
Author Golden Krishna
Our love for the digital interface is out of control.Expanded from one of the most shared design essays ever written, and one of the most popular talks at innovation conferences around the world, this entertaining and visionary book offers a compelling new way to se....
Release Date 2015/02 -
The Intuitive Compass: Why the Best Decisions Balance Reason and Instinct
Author Francis P. Cholle
A dynamic new way to understand intuition, already implemented around the world at top companies and business schoolsNeuroscience shows that instinct has a leading role in complex decision-making, yet imaginative play is the most direct means of activating our creat....
Release Date 2011/10 -
Author Laura Klein
Keyboards and input screens still work for mobile devices, but they just might disappear for some wearables and IoT devices. How viable is voice interface as an alternative? This O’Reilly report looks into recent advances in computing power and natural language pro....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Author Sajal K. Das
The evolution of mobile communication standards presents numerous challenges in mobile handset design. Designers must continue to turn out handsets that maintain high device performance and air interface compatibility, while at the same time shrink power consumption....
Release Date 2010/04 -
Designing Social Interfaces, 2nd Edition
Author Christian Crumlish , Erin Malone
Designers, developers, and entrepreneurs today must grapple with creating social interfaces to foster user interaction and community, but grasping the nuances and the building blocks of the digital social experience is much harder than it appears. Now you have help.....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Handbook of Serial Communications Interfaces
Author Louis E. Frenzel
This book catalogs the most popular and commonly used serial-port interfaces and provides details on the specifications and the latest standards, enabling you to select an interface for a new design or verify that an interface is working correctly. Each chapter is b....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population
Author Kate Finn , Jeff Johnson
Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population: Towards Universal Design presents age-friendly design guidelines that are well-established, agreed-upon, research-based, actionable, and applicable across a variety of modern technology platforms. The book offers g....
Release Date 2017/02 -
Creating Interfaces with Bulma
Author Dave Berning , Aslam Shah , Mikko Lauhakari , Oleksii Potiekhin , creator of Bulma J
This book, written by Jeremy Thomas (Bulma creator) and a team of Bulma experts, is a step-by-step guide that will teach you how to build a web interface from scratch using Bulma. The example website that you will build is an administration interface for an online....
Release Date 2018/02