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 at Sabre, Yahoo! and Netflix, these best practices are grouped into six key principles to help you take advantage of the web technologies available today. With an entire section devoted to each design principle, Designing Web Interfaces helps you: Make It Direct -Edit content in context with design patterns for In Page Editing, Drag &amp; Drop, and Direct Selection Keep It Lightweight -Reduce the effort required to interact with a site by using In Context Tools to leave a "light footprint" Stay on the Page -Keep visitors on a page with overlays, inlays, dynamic content, and in-page flow patterns Provide an Invitation -Help visitors discover site features with invitations that cue them to the next level of interaction Use Transitions -Learn when, why, and how to use animations, cinematic effects, and other transitions React Immediately -Provide a rich experience by using lively responses such as Live Search, Live Suggest, Live Previews, and more Designing Web Interfaces illustrates many patterns with examples from working websites. If you need to build or renovate a website to be truly interactive, this book gives you the principles for success.

Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions

Computers & Technology

Scott, Bill

Neil, Theresa

Computer Science

O'Reilly Media

When you’re under pressure to produce a well designed, easy-to-navigate mobile app, there’s no time to reinvent the wheel. This concise book provides a handy reference to 70 mobile app design patterns, illustrated by more than 400 screenshots from current iOS, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian apps.
User experience professional Theresa Neil (Designing Web Interfaces) walks you through design patterns in 10 separate categories, including anti-patterns. Whether you’re designing a simple iPhone application or one that’s meant to work for every popular mobile OS on the market, these patterns provide solutions to common design challenges. This print edition is in full color.
Pattern categories include: 
<ul>
<li>Navigation: get patterns for primary and secondary navigation</li>
<li>Forms: break the industry-wide habits of bad form design</li>
<li>Tables and lists: display only the most important information</li>
<li>Search, sort, and filter: make these functions easy to use</li>
<li>Tools: create the illusion of direct interaction</li>
<li>Charts: learn best practices for basic chart design</li>
<li>Invitations: invite users to get started and discover features</li>
<li>
Help: integrate help pages into a smaller form factor</li>
</ul>"It’s a super handy catalog that I can flip to for ideas."—Bill Scott, Senior Director of Web Development at PayPal"Looks fantastic."
—Erin Malone, Partner at Tangible UX"Just a quick thanks to express my sheer gratitude for this pub, it has been a guide for me reworking a design for an app already in production!"
—Agatha June, UX designer

Mobile Design Pattern Gallery: UI Patterns for Mobile Applications

When you’re under pressure to produce a well designed, easy-to-navigate mobile app, there’s no time to reinvent the wheel. This concise book provides a handy reference to 70 mobile app design patterns, illustrated by more than 400 screenshots from current iOS, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian apps.
User experience professional Theresa Neil (Designing Web Interfaces) walks you through design patterns in 10 separate categories, including anti-patterns. Whether you’re designing a simple iPhone application or one that’s meant to work for every popular mobile OS on the market, these patterns provide solutions to common design challenges. This print edition is in full color.
Pattern categories include:
<ul>
<li>Navigation: get patterns for primary and secondary navigation</li>
<li>Forms: break the industry-wide habits of bad form design</li>
<li>Tables and lists: display only the most important information</li>
<li>Search, sort, and filter: make these functions easy to use</li>
<li>Tools: create the illusion of direct interaction</li>
<li>Charts: learn best practices for basic chart design</li>
<li>Invitations: invite users to get started and discover features</li>
<li>Controls and feedback: help users perform actions, and provide them with timely feedback</li>
<li>Help: integrate help pages into a smaller form factor</li>
</ul>
"It’s a super handy catalog that I can flip to for ideas." —Bill Scott, Senior Director of Web Development at PayPal
"Just a quick thanks to express my sheer gratitude for this pub, it has been a guide for me reworking a design for an app already in production!" —Agatha June, UX designer

Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, Color Edition

Web Development & Design

When you’re under pressure to produce a well-designed, easy-to-navigate mobile app, there’s no time to reinvent the wheel—and no need to. This handy reference provides more than 90 mobile app design patterns, illustrated by 1,000 screenshots from current Android, iOS, and Windows Phone apps.
Much has changed since this book’s first edition. Mobile OSes have become increasingly different, driving their own design conventions and patterns, and many designers have embraced mobile-centric thinking. In this edition, user experience professional Theresa Neil walks product managers, designers, and developers through design patterns in 11 categories:
<ul>
<li>Navigation: get patterns for primary and secondary navigation</li>
<li>Forms: break industry-wide habits of bad form design</li>
<li>Tables: display only the most important information</li>
<li>Search, sort, and filter: make these functions easy to use</li>
<li>Tools: create the illusion of direct interaction</li>
<li>Charts: learn best practices for basic chart design</li>
<li>Tutorials &amp; Invitations: invite users to get started and discover features</li>
<li>Social: help users connect and become part of the group</li>
<li>Feedback &amp; Affordance: provide users with timely feedback</li>
<li>Help: integrate help pages into a smaller form factor</li>
<li>Anti-Patterns: what not to do when designing a mobile app</li>
</ul>

Mobile Design Pattern Gallery: UI Patterns for Smartphone Apps

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Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions

Mobile Design Pattern Gallery: UI Patterns for Mobile Applications

Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, Color Edition

Mobile Design Pattern Gallery: UI Patterns for Smartphone Apps