Web Anatomy: Interaction Design Frameworks that Work (Paperback)

~ Robert Hoekman (Author), Jared Spool (Author)

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Product Description

At the start of every web design project, the ongoing struggles reappear. We want to design highly usable and self-evident applications, but we also want to devise innovative, compelling, and exciting interactions that make waves in the market. Projects are more sophisticated than ever, but we have fewer resources with which to complete them. Requirements are fuzzy at best, but we’re expected to have everything done yesterday.

What we need is a reuse strategy, coupled with a pathway to innovation. Patterns are part of the game. Components take us further. In Web Anatomy: Interaction Design Frameworks That Work, user experience experts Hoekman and Spool introduce “interaction design frameworks”, the third and final piece of what they call “The Reuse Trinity”, and resolve these issues once and for all. Frameworks are sets of design patterns and other elements that comprise entire systems, and in this game-changing book, Hoekman and Spool show you how to identify, document, share, use, and reap the benefits of frameworks. They also dive deep into several major frameworks to reveal how the psychology behind these standards leads not only to effective designs, but can also serve as the basis for cutting-edge innovations and superior user experiences.

Web Anatomy delivers:

• A complete guide to using interaction design frameworks

• An examination of the psychology behind major frameworks

• A thorough look at how frameworks will change the way you work for the better

Citing examples from both the successful and not-so-successful, the authors break down the elements that comprise several common interactive web systems, discuss implementation considerations, offer examples of innovations based on these standards, reveal how frameworks work hand in hand with patterns and components, and show you how to integrate frameworks into your process.

Read Web Anatomy now. Benefit from it for years to come.

Jared Spool is a world-renowned design researcher and the founder of UIE.com. Robert Hoekman, Jr. is a veteran user experience specialist and the author of Designing the Obvious and Designing the Moment.

About the Author

Jared Spool, founder of User Interface Engineering, has more than 15 years of experience conducting usability evaluations on a variety of products, and is an expert in low-fidelity prototyping techniques. As a recognized authority on user interface design and human factors in computing, Jared is on the faculty of the Tufts University Gordon Institute and teaches seminars on product usability. Robert Hoekman, Jr., is the founder of Miskeeto, a product development and web design collective focused on projects that improve the world. The author of Designing the Obvious and Designing the Moment, he's a passionate and outspoken interaction designer, writer, and user-experience evangelist

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: New Riders Press; 1 edition (December 11, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321635027
• ISBN-13: 978-0321635020
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #43,761 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great addition to some of the other great UX/IxD books to come out this year, December 17, 2009

By	Ryan L. Winzenburg "UX Designer" (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This book is fantastic in the context of a couple other books in my user experience library. If you've read Kim Goodwin's Designing for the Digital Age and/or Modular Web Design by the folks at Eight Shapes this is a fantastic supplementary book. You will get a ton of value out of this book if you download the design templates at [...] and use them as a starting point for your own component library.

I would recommend this book to anyone under the User Experience canopy. This book if full of excellent tips to save you time as well as tested user centered design patterns for pain-free design decision making.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for IA, Designers and Thinkers, December 17, 2009

By	Edwin Lap "Mentalwais" (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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I have been reading Robert's books for the past few years and this latest is another great insight into the world of Interaction Design. On this particular read, Robert collaborated with one of my favorite guys, Jared Spool (if you don't know who he is, you really should know) on using interaction design frameworks.
Although, I would not consider myself a IA designer, this book illustrates great examples of successful and not so successful design strategies, pit falls within IA and much much more.
It is an interesting read and hopefully you are following them both (Hoekman and Spool) on Twitter.